PvP Culture at Work: Why Your Best People Are Fighting Each Other
When colleagues compete against each other instead of the market, everyone loses. Here’s how PvP culture takes root in organisations, what it costs, and the practical steps high-trust workplaces use to redirect ambition toward shared goals. In organisations that make our best workplaces list, 85 per cent of employees agree that “people avoid politicking and […]
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 […]
The Kindness Method of Leadership at Christmas
* Employees who feel cared for are 70% more likely to go the extra mile. * 91% of employees with supportive leaders’ report feeling safe to innovate. * Embedding kindness into operations outperform on nearly every metric. As another Christmas rolls around (how did that happen?) Ebenezer Scrooge, literature’s greatest example of a leader […]
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 […]
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 […]
Building a More Compassionate Workplace
As we celebrated World Kindness Day on November 13th, we thought it was worth examining how fostering a culture of kindness can transform not just individual wellbeing, but entire organisations. Kindness in 2025 has emerged as a critical leadership competency that directly impacts employee wellbeing, productivity, and bottom-line results. Why Kindness Actually Matters at Work […]