“You’re not actually being more efficient or effective. You’re just burning yourself out,” warns psychologist Meredith Fuller. Image: iStock By Angela Dorizas Taking the axe to jobs can cause turmoil…
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Salt to discuss demographic future of local government
By Staff Writer Australia’s leading commentator on demographic-based business trends, Bernard Salt will explore Australia’s demographic future and its affect on local government at the 2009 LGMA National Congress &…
Cut executive pay to prevent job losses, says HR expert
By Angela Dorizas Public sector organisations can prevent restructures and job losses through a range of cost cutting measures, including flexible work modes, executive level pay cuts and voluntary redundancies….
Managing through the financial crisis
Information management is set to take centre stage in the near future as government agencies around Australia struggle to deliver services in the face of harsher economic realities. To find…
Recruitment costs set to rise
The cost of recruiting public service employees are set to rise by up to $370 million per year, according to a leading e-recruitment software company. A survey of e-recruitment traffic…
Public sector failing to implement flexible work practices
By Adam Coleman A slavish devotion to traditional workplace ‘culture’ has many public sector organisations failing to implement flexible work policies that could help attract the best staff, lower staff…
Outlook grim, recession will hit this year: Access Economics
By Adam Coleman Leading economic forecaster, Access Economics released its Business Outlook for December 2008 today which warns Australia will fall into recession this year. The forecaster suggests NSW is…
SoR blames policy failure for economic crisis
By Adam Coleman The latest State of the Regions report from forecasting group, National Economics, argues that "weak government economic involvement in the economy, financial deregulation and a laissez faire…
SMEs slam government inaction in survey
By Adam Coleman The latest annual MYOB Australian Small Business Survey, has uncovered a high level of dissatisfaction with government‘s contribution to small business development. When asked to rate the…
Financial meltdown producing a rich skills pool
Government HR managers and public sector recruiters should be proactively going after the thousands of Australians who’ve lost their jobs in the financial crisis with incentives to return home, a…