Displaying items by tag: employee engagement

● It now takes 35 days for new hires to become fully productive in their role, up from 24 days in 2023
● Improving productivity is a top priority for Australian businesses in 2024
● But lack of employee engagement is the top barrier holding productivity back

Australian businesses are struggling to hold onto their new recruits with one in eight (13%) leaving during the probation period.

Australian-born, globally-used, employee engagement platform Culture Amp has set its mission as amplifying the experience and impact of more than 100m workers around the world. It’s taken on Google’s Vertex AI to help HR professionals get to the crux of what workers are saying - and says it chose Google for its ethical commitment.

California-based contact centre solutions provider Genesys has expanded its horizons beyond the call centre with the launch of an AI-powered employee engagement system called Genesys Cloud EX.

New Zealand's sustainable grass-fed meat processor Silver Fern Farms has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to deliver its people strategy, streamline HR processes, and collaborate, and has already found a boost in employee engagement by a huge 60%.

GUEST OPINION: Despite the military conflict in Europe right now, economic conditions are improving and employees are getting restless. Indeed, managers may need to work harder to encourage their employees to stay put.

Cybersecurity education company Infosec has announced its integration with the recently launched Microsoft Viva Learning platform, aimed at bringing cybersecurity training to Microsoft’s millions of learners worldwide.

Once upon a time, a remote worker was a small number of people, most likely sales, who primarily operated on the road instead of one of your company offices. Today, remote working is a convenient and productive option - even a necessary one during a pandemic - for individual workers and the wider business. Yet, building a high-performing cohesive team is more challenging in this environment. Here are some options to tackle it.

Working from home – but how hard? Helping remote employees connect more effectively is a great way to improve productivity

GUEST OPINION by Brendan Maree, Vice President Asia Pacific, 8x8: So, how’s that remote working experiment working out for your business? It’s been a year now since the onset of the COVID crisis forced Australian businesses and organisations to shutter their offices and send employees home. In April and May of last year, almost a third of Australians workers were toiling in their home offices, according to Roy Morgan research.

Mobile employee engagement solutions provider StaffConnect has released a new version of its engagement platform, which it says is designed to improve employee engagement and job satisfaction and provide access to all of the resources needed to do their jobs.