81% of Kiwi Workers Say Their Work Perks Are A Miss
Key insights Only 19% of NZ workers say their workplace benefits are useful and well matched. 66% of Kiwi workers have never been told the dollar value of their benefits. Forced to pick one benefit, 39% of Kiwis chose time and flexibility. A new study by Cultivate found that only 19% of employed New Zealanders […]
‘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 […]
Do You Know The Difference Between EVP, Employer Branding and Culture?
In any given talent strategy meeting, culture, EVP, and employer brand will be used interchangeably at least once. Usually more. They’ll appear on the same slide, get assigned to the same team, and be discussed as though they’re different words for the same work. In a highly competitive hiring age, your people knowing the difference between […]
How Smart NZ Companies Are Responding To A Wobbly Jobs Market
On the surface New Zealand’s jobs market looks pretty good, with employment and wage growth both on the way up. But there’s something fishy going on underneath those numbers. Hours are down, pressure is building in key skill areas, and more and more people are having to take on side-gigs to get by. Employment Hero’s […]
The 5 Elements Of Meaningful Work In The Age Of AI
Wasn’t AI just meant to take the boring work off our hands? To make things like invoicing and data entry go away, not gobble up the parts of work that gave us meaning? A research piece by Sydney University has called out work redesign (balancing automation with human expertise and rerouting workflows) as one 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 […]
How To Create A Culture Of Psychological Safety At Work
Like a lot of young women who were good with words in the world before generative AI, Claire Hastwell was put in charge of the social media channels for a company she worked for earlier in her career. “When I shared a post to the company’s Instagram channel, one of my colleagues would often make […]
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 […]