‘Running on empty’: Why NZ frontline workers are at breaking point
KEY INSIGHTS Around half of frontline workers live pay cheque to pay cheque: 55% in Australia and 51% in New Zealand 76% of Australian and 76% of New Zealand frontline employees work voluntary overtime at least occasionally. 65% of Australian and 58% of New Zealand frontline employees feel they are “living to work” rather than […]
Employee Influencers: Turn Your People into Your Best Recruiters
A massive number of employees don’t actively recommend working at their company. The rest aren’t out there spreading bad news. Most likely, they’re just saying nothing at all. In a talent market running on word-of-mouth and social proof, that pretty much amounts to the same thing. Up to 70–85% of jobs are estimated to be […]
Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in New Zealand Workplaces
Coming out is not a one-time declaration; it’s a recurring decision that LGBTQIA+ individuals face repeatedly throughout their professional lives. Each new interaction, whether with a new colleague, a new manager, or during cross-team collaborations, poses the question of whether to reveal their true selves. In fact, the seminal Counting Ourselves survey (the first national […]
How New Zealand Job Seekers Are Researching Employers
KEY HIGHLIGHTS Job ads in New Zealand were up 13% year on year through early 2026. Applications per job ad have fallen for six straight months as candidates get choosier. Here’s how to use Great Place to Work to boost your employer brand. Somewhere in Auckland right now, a very talented senior marketing manager […]
Why Employees Stop Giving Extra Effort
KEY HIGHLIGHTS 55% of employees at Best Workplaces report a great deal of trust in leadership, compared to just 26% at typical New Zealand organisations. Trust is significantly higher in top-performing organisations, with Best Workplaces scoring 90 on the Trust Index versus 61 in the New Zealand benchmark. In lower-trust workplaces, core culture metrics like […]
New Zealand Is Rolling Out Its Most Significant Employment Law Overhaul In A Decade
In late 2025, over 100,000 New Zealanders, everyone from nurses to teachers, and firefighters, walked off the job in a historic mega-strike that brought the country to a standstill. Preceded by months of disruptive rolling strikes, the message from the picket lines was unequivocal: the social contract between employers and workers is fracturing. It is […]
How Ageism is Shrinking New Zealand’s Talent Pool
A third of New Zealand’s workforce is over 50, and 85% of them say getting hired gets harder every year. Here’s what that bias is actually costing them. For something that happens to every human on Earth, if we’re lucky, it’s shocking how biased New Zealand employers have become about age. While a third of […]
Work Life and Leadership Predictions and Resolutions For 2026
2026 has arrived, carried in on the steady, high-frequency hum of a thousand autonomous agents and new buzzwords. We’re moving beyond the decade of disorientation into a phygital reality, where the boundary between our physical personhood and our digital personas has all but dissolved. The office is no longer a destination for a desk but […]
4 Strategies for Improving Resilience Across Your Workforce
Across APAC, leaders are acutely aware that the old playbook for building resilience at work is no longer enough. With economic and technological disruption reshaping every industry, the capacity for teams to adapt and bounce forward through change has become a top strategic priority. Companies across the region are responding with investments in wellbeing, inclusive […]
How Building Trust and Engaging Employees Can Drive Your Sustainability Goals
High-trust workplaces will be the most successful at meeting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. Here’s how you can engage your workforce. Sustainability has become a global business imperative. Nine in 10 (90%) global institutional investors revise their investments when companies do not at least consider ESG criteria, per a recent survey from EY. In a […]