Britehouse wins in Top Women Awards 2017
Britehouse Group, a Division of Dimension Data, has been announced the winner of the Top Gender Empowered: Skills Development Award at the prestigious Standard Bank Top Women Awards 2017. The Standard Bank Top Women Awards, hosted by Topco Media and Standard Bank,...
Econz Wireless signs partner agreement with NeTrec
Econz Wireless, a global leader in GPS mobile employee tracking and time and attendance solutions, has signed a partner agreement with NeTrec, a Vereeniging- and Pretoria-based company which specialises in human resource management. Ernie Loubser, support director for...
How do employees want to work?
Lauren Timmer-Somer, head of Marketing and Technology Services at Ricoh SA, outlines nine ways that employees want companies to beat the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.First there was water and steam. Then there was electricity. The Third Industrial...
How to prevent payroll fraud
The struggling South African economy has created considerable hardship, with low salary increases coupled with greater calls on disposable income. And this has resulted in a perfect storm driving people to commit fraud, says Arlene Leggat, a director of the South...
Why screening is important
The South African labour market is heavily legislated, regulating the relationship between the employer and the employee -- often in favour of the employee. In this highly protected labour environment, hiring the wrong candidate can be devastating and could prove to...
Is a gender-balanced workforce possible in SA?
South Africa needs more women in its workforce, more female role models in science, technology, engineering and maths and more benefits for working parents. In short, the country needs gender equality. But how soon can this be achieved? Gale Shabangu, inclusion and...
Payroll: defining success in a demanding industry
The payroll environment is not for the faint-hearted. It is demanding, exacting and driven by deadlines. It is a career where mistakes can be expensive and missing a deadline potentially catastrophic. For those who work in this industry it is essential that they...
Preparing for Jobs that don’t exist yet
With the development of IT technologies, the job market is being transformed, across all industry sectors. Automation of manual tasks is the most obvious change, but big data, blockchains and crowd funding may be the real game changers, enabling established and new...
SA’s unemployment an opportunity for stability
The quarterly employment survey recently released by Statistics South Africa announced a net quarterly decrease of 48 000 (-0,5%) jobs between December 2016 and March 2017 - this while South Africa's unemployment rate already sits at an all-time high of 26,5%. For...
Hybrid business accelerator opens in Atlantis
An innovative business accelerator that seeks to thrust youth living in Atlantis, in the Western Cape, into economic inclusion, has opened. Symbiosis Innovation and Accelerator Centre (Symbiosis), the re-purposed former South African Manufacturing Technology...
What does the future hold for HR?
The current unemployment rate in South Africa is 27,7% - that’s almost a third of the population. A large portion of the unemployed are in fact graduates, with an overwhelming 60% of graduates remaining unemployed, or being employed in a career that is not in their...
Make sure you don’t hire the wrong candidate
Hiring the wrong candidate for any role can be a costly error. Learn how talent assessments can take some of the risk (and cost) out of your organisation's hiring strategies. Any marriage counsellor will tell you: Don’t marry with the expectation you will change the...