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Platforms that help organisations build a "corporate memory" of their former employees are the next big area to watch in HR tech, says Xref co-founder Lee-Martin Seymour. With high-performers more likely to boomerang back to past employers, bringing new skills and staying longer, Seymour expects this space will become increasingly important.
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Confusion surrounding employees' pandemic-related entitlements is "understandable", but it's vital that employers get up to speed to ensure they're proactively taking advantage of these supports, HR Legal partner Georgie Chapman says. Meanwhile, the JobKeeper amendments propose an extra burden for employers, requiring additional consideration to ensure stand downs are reasonable.
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Most organisations are making steady progress towards workplace gender equality, with actual parity in sight, according to Mercer's Katelijne Pee. The key to reaching it is for employers to look "unflinchingly" at their D&I data and hold themselves accountable to it, she says.
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A tribunal has found an employer was vicariously liable for the discrimination an employee suffered after complaining about a workplace assault. However, it disagreed with the employee's claim that he had a right for the complaint to be investigated, saying there is no such "universal" entitlement.
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Pharma employer AbbVie has revamped its workplace wellness program to take a 'whole self' approach, according to its HR business partner Jules Roberts. Initially focusing on physical and mental health, AbbVie now targets financial and emotional wellbeing as well, and has upped the ante on communication, deciding there is no such thing as overcommunication during a crisis.
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HR's involvement in contingent workforce management has grown in recent years, but large global organisations are now creating new functions for 'workforce transformation'. Allegis Global Solutions head of strategy Bruce Morton says these organisations are "forward-thinking" in understanding that workforce management shouldn't sit in either an HR or procurement silo.