False urgency only creates problems in the workplace

False urgency, or a scenario in which a sense of urgency is artificially created or exaggerated, forces an immediate reactionary response. This disregard for context, credible information and responsibility sets up employees for failure. Fortunately there is a way to...

Jobs Boost outcomes fund launched

The latest Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey, showed that nearly 6-million young people are unemployed, representing 43,37% of young people in the labour force and one of the highest rates in the world. A new initiative has been launched to tackle this chronic...

Rewriting recruitment …

The recruitment model needs to be disrupted and reimagined if it wants to keep up with a radically evolving talent landscape, writes Lindsay Cowan, CEO of One Degree. The projected gross volume of the gig economy is anticipated to exceed $455-billion in 2023. This...

Prioritise people over processes for business success

The workplace today looks very different from the workplace people left behind when remote work was mandated in 2020. Not only did the work model change, but also the mindset of the average employee. Phylla Jele, HR and transformation executive at proptech company e4,...

Loud labourers add pressure to HCM

A new workplace trend has emerged – loud labourers – which will only add pressure to the lives of already stressed business managers. The term is used to describe workers who ‘talk the talk, but barely walk the walk’, according to Nicol...

Say hello to the new AI team

With the rapid rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI, enterprises who initially experimented with select AI use cases are now reimagining company-wide processes and strategies for how the business fundamentally operates. By Brendan Grady, GM:...