How to Share Your Employee Survey Results
According to research by Gallup, only 8% of employees strongly agree that their organisation takes action on the surveys it runs. That means that more often than not, the other 92 per cent filled in a form and then felt like nothing happened. We see that gap open up time and again in the weeks […]
What Makes Employee Engagement Scores Crash
Key insights Falling engagement usually traces back to leadership gaps, patchy communication and employees losing sight of why their work matters. Great Place To Work research shows trust predicts retention, innovation and business performance more reliably than an engagement score does. Patterns only appear once you segment survey results by team, department and manager. Your […]
‘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 […]
How to Benchmark Employee Experience Against Industry Standards
Knowing how your employees feel about their workplace is only half the picture. The other half is understanding how that experience compares to other organisations in your industry. A strong engagement score may look encouraging on its own, yet it tells you little about how your workplace experience compares with others competing for the same […]
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 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 […]
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 […]