Yarra Valley Water now has 97% of staff feeling aligned to the company's purpose and reporting role clarity, while also achieving gender equity at board and executive level and zero time lost to injuries in the last financial year.
An employer with such low attrition it can't rely on resignations to create role openings is finding new ways to "create movement" in lieu of traditional career paths.
The top-ranked company on Australia's best places to work list provides recruitment training to every line manager involved in its hiring, and boasts single-digit attrition rates.
An employer that's currently retaining all its top 100 employees says the key to its revamped retention strategy was simply more effectively leveraging what it already had in place.
Differentiating HR approaches according to the value of roles within an organisation can lead to perceptions of unfairness and increase turnover, new research shows.
A focus on helping staff become better people, rather than better workers, has helped one organisation maintain high engagement levels and performance across the company.
Rigorous recruiting for cultural fit has helped an employer achieve high financial results and customer satisfaction scores, while keeping attrition below 10 per cent.
The Federal Government's consideration of a bounty-style reward for whistleblowers could undermine employers' existing processes, according to a workplace lawyer. Meanwhile, workplace law changes start Saturday, FWO action is improving business compliance, and more.
Employers "still have a long way to go" in embracing flexible work arrangements, with one in two employees saying leaders lack the skills to support flexibility, according to research released as part of Flexible Working Day today. Meanwhile, an investigation has uncovered nepotism "so blatant as to beggar belief", and 'development opportunities' is now one of the top reasons employees will leave their current job.
An employer that used candidates' feedback to retool its recruitment process is engaging and retaining significantly more of its new hires, according to its culture and capability GM.
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