Attracting and retaining employees is important for businesses, especially within the current recruitment market. Employees are requesting flexibility and businesses need to consider this to remain competitive.
Here is our guide on the important steps to take when creating individual flexibility arrangements for your employees:
When you have been through the long process of finding the perfect person for your vacant role, it can be hard to delay offering them the position straight away. It’s exciting, and you want to snap them up before someone else does! However, we would always suggest you complete at least one reference check as a final check on your perfect candidate before you confirm the offer.
In early December 2022 the Government passed as legislation the Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Act 2022 obligating employers to ensure workers are safe and free from sexual harassment.
Selecting the right person for the job is critical in this current recruitment market. Hiring decisions can impact business performance and selecting the right candidate can directly impact the business’s future success. A reliable interview and selection process is essential to ensure sound recruitment decisions.
A combination of behavioural and skills-based interview questions is a valuable tool in the recruitment process to help employers choose the right candidate.
Workplace flu vaccinations are important every year, as influenza can seriously affect your workplace. Workers with influenza take an average of two weeks to recover – which could be longer than COVID. Because people can be contagious before any symptoms show, it is easy to spread influenza.
You have a specific project which needs to be completed or you don’t know how many hours you are going to need to fulfil your current workload, you know you need to bring a new person in to help get things done but should they be a casual or a contractor? What’s the difference?
The collection and storage of employee data is a relevant topic in the media at the moment due to several high-profile data breaches. Here at Impact HR, we understand the importance of keeping sensitive employee data safe and protected and have prepared some points to consider.
Here are important steps you can take to protect employee data:
Once we create a business plan, we need to achieve it. As a soloist, it is down to managing our time to juggle those things we chose not to outsource. If we have a team, we need to ensure that there is transparency and clarity on who is going to do what and how they will know when they are successful.
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One of the things that can be challenging in the SME environment is the balance between strategic planning and business planning. We are fortunate enough to work with many different owners and managers and everyone has their own strengths. For most of us, we like to play to them and may opt to spend more time in that space. However, when we are growing a successful, thriving business, we need to do both.
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