Following up on my posts from last week around workplace privacy. I was reading a similar post from Michael Fitzgibbon (Thoughts from a Management Lawyer) on the whole issue of Workplace Privacy in the US. Of interest were the statistics which while are US centric I have a feeling probably would transpose fairly well toContinue reading “Can I have some private time?”
Category Archives: HR Management
New HR Metrics?
Tom Lutz (from HR for the leader in you) has written an interesting post on HR Metrics where he highlights some of the concerns with some measures and provides a listing of leading edge metrics from Saratoga/PricewaterhouseCoopers. The list of his leading edge metrics are below:- 1. Percent of High Potentials in the Talent Pool.Continue reading “New HR Metrics?”
Privacy in the workplace
A day after NSW banned employers from monitoring emails Victoria and South Australia are looking to do the same thing. Over the last 9 months I have written about these moves here, here, here and here. This is a really interesting topic that has significant potential to cause all sorts of ER/IR issues within theContinue reading “Privacy in the workplace”
Employee hours
One of Dub’s latests post about time and labour (down here it is now not labor 🙂 ) management systems got me thinking and there is another factor to the benefits listed. Health and Safety. If you industry is anything other than very basic knowledge management work then actual hours worked by you employees isContinue reading “Employee hours”
Annoying terms
Via ContingentWorkforce.Org Digital Home Canada has an article on the most annoying workplace terms and phrases. In reading the list and the full article I might be an annoying person to work with. Oh well I might do some value-added thinking outside of the box to develop a win-win customer centric solution that has alignmentContinue reading “Annoying terms”
Is this the metric’s answer?
Shai Agassi has announced at the European Sapphire details of SAP’s new metrics and reporting platform. The solution was compared to being almost as easy as Lego to put together.
Lawson & Ultimate should close up shop
Dub’s is calling for vendors like Lawson and Ultimate to just close up shop and go away. While this is a very bold statement he is not far from the mark. Today when the major vendors are pumping millions and millions into their products it does become very hard for a second tier vendor toContinue reading “Lawson & Ultimate should close up shop”
Success of your blog
Regina from BNet Blogs asks an interesting question. How do you measure the success of a blog strategy?
Vertical Search
A couple of days ago Indeed announced a partnership with Info.com that will integrate the 100,000s of jobs that Indeed has into Info.com‘s aggregated search engine. (In Australia Sensis is doing a similar thing to Info.com). An interesting convergence of tools. This got me thinking about comparing Indeed with SimplyHired, an interesting question. How doesContinue reading “Vertical Search”
New Visa arrangements in Australia
Just noticed that DIMIA (Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs) in Australia have released changes to the infamous 457 Visa’s. I wonder if it will have an impact on the offshoring process that is happening within Australia? Or even the whole skills shortage issue.
Michael Specht 