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GUEST RESEARCH:  New research from Humanforce reveals almost 70% of Australian workers abandon job applications due to confusing or difficult recruitment processes. This alarming trend, where potential employees are disengaging from companies during, and sometimes before, their recruitment journey, poses a significant issue for employers operating in today’s extremely tight job market.

Integrated security provider Certis Australia has appoined seasoned human resource practitioner Darryl Prince as as Senior Vice President of People and Transformation.

GUEST OPINION by Dan Lawyer, Chief Product Officer at Lucid Software: The post-pandemic tech stack bloat has resulted in fragmented workflows and hindered productivity across businesses of all sizes. In fact, more than 42% of workers report they find it frustrating to have so many tools at their disposal.

The Honeywell User Group's 2023 meeting in Melbourne attracted plenty of new blood: among the 250 customers registered for the event, 67% were first-time attendees.

Calls among small business owners for greater data protection and education, due to perceived ethical challenges from AI

GUEST RESEARCH: New research from Xero, the global small business platform, has revealed that 80% of small business owners are concerned AI development and adoption is outpacing regulation, as generative AI tools permeate various industries and the workforce.

GUEST OPINION: Forget quiet quitting. The latest trend is quiet hiring. Rather than hiring new staff, employers are turning to technology to enable employee career growth, providing new opportunities to elevate and evolve their current roles.

COMPANY NEWS: Humanforce, a Sydney-based, global provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, today announced a partnership agreement with Datacom, Australasia’s largest homegrown technology solutions provider, to provide an integrated WFM & payroll offering to Australian and New Zealand businesses.

A new program backed by the Federal Government and aimed at increasing Australia’s cyber workforce and its diversity by at least 100 people by 2024 has been launched by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr.

If your business relies on a workforce that is often spread out across a location, even multiple locations, then Workforce Connect by Zebra Technologies is for you.

The APAC region has lower unemployment and more vacancies than before the pandemic and, despite unemployment figures in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia dropping to or below pre-pandemic levels, the three countries have seen vacancies increase by 83%, 127% and 111%, respectively, according to a new report.

Global payroll and compliance platform, Deel is launching a fully managed payroll product for companies that hire employees using their entities and want to combine multiple regional payroll systems into “one effortless, global platform”.

iTWire TV speaks with Zebra Technologies sales engineering manager ANZ Daniel Park about the company’s Workforce Connect software.

Major industrial regions – including the Pilbara, Kwinana, Hunter, Illawarra and Gladstone – have the natural resources, workforce and baseline infrastructure that can be expanded to support Australia’s net zero transition, according to a newly released report.

GUEST OPINION: I joined Zscaler in early 2022 in part because I wanted to work with a diverse APJ organisation which embraced collaborative thinking while providing the technology that allowed customers to interact securely in their world.

GUEST OPINION: Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), conducted new research into the talent shortage afflicting the cybersecurity industry. Among the key findings, 85% of those surveyed believe the workforce shortage is impacting their organisations’ abilities to secure increasingly complex information systems and networks. Of the current workforce, 30% plan to change professions in the future.  

GUEST OPINION: Planning on strengthening your finance team this year, as you gear up for the next couple of years of post-Covid recovery and expansion?

Australian-based global integrated workplace management SaaS solutions provider, Damstra, today announced a share sale agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in TIKS Solutions, a Sydney-based workplace safety and compliance management company.

Intelligent workforce management Humanforce launches a software solution to assist businesses in managing complex workplace vaccination issues and help organisations communicate effectively their policies.

Cloud-based HR, payroll, expense management and rostering provider Elmo Software has launched a new solution for use by businesses that need to record and monitor their employees' COVID-19 vaccination and test status.

Australian-founded cloud-based software provider Skedulo has raised US$75 million in a series C capital raising round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.