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Wrap It Up: Planning a Smooth Holiday Close Down

Planning a Christmas close-down doesn’t have to be stressful! Read on for practical tips for employers and HR professionals in navigating annual leave entitlements, manage public holidays, and ensure employees get a well-deserved break over the festive season.

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Approaching Work Christmas Parties with Caution

The annual work Christmas party is a staple of the festive season, offering a chance to celebrate the year’s achievements and foster team camaraderie. However, these events also bring risks that can lead to legal disputes, strained relationships, and even dismissals. By learning from past cases and planning thoughtfully, employers can ensure a…

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Guiding Your Team Through the Holiday Hustle: Practical HR Strategies

The holidays can be both joyful and overwhelming. Discover how HR can help ease the season’s stress with strategies like flexible schedules, team volunteering, and work-life balance tips to keep spirits bright and energy high.

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Why HR Professionals Should Consider Becoming Employment Law Advocates for Employees

Could becoming an Employment Law Advocate could be the perfect way to truly be on the side of the employee?

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Navigating Redundancy

A quick guide for employers on handling redundancies, following proper procedures, and avoiding common pitfalls through real case studies.

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The Importance of Flexibility for Wellbeing in the Workplace - Wellbeing Survey Findings

Our recent HRNZ Wellbeing survey responses provides insight into the areas in which HR professionals see as important for supporting strong wellbeing within the workplace! Importantly, the survey also covered what these HR professionals found the biggest risks to be in managing their own wellbeing. Read on to see what these risks were, and some…

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Celebrating Wellbeing Success: The Importance of Implementing Effective Wellbeing Initiatives 

Check out what initiatives the NZ HR Wellness Programme Award Finalists implemented, and what the impact of these programmes were!

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Leadership challenges revealed in diversity survey

Check out the findings from the 2024 New Zealand Workplace Diversity Survey!

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When It All Goes Wrong — Wellbeing Missteps in the Workplace

To know what it means to have good wellbeing in the workplace, we must understand what it looks like when it all goes wrong.

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Flexible Working Survey – What's in and what’s out!

As flexible working arrangements continue to evolve, it's crucial for HR professionals to understand how employees define and value flexibility in their work lives. HRNZ’s recent survey on flexible work garnered over 150 responses, illustrating attitudes and perceptions of flexible work, and provide insight into how common these different forms of…

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It's about time!

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Rethinking Work: A Framework for HR Professionals to Support Working Parents

The 9-to-5 is killing us, and working mums have it the worst. Could #WorkSchoolHours be the answer? Dr Ellen Joan Ford explains what this actually would look like!

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