Valter Adão, chief digital and innovation officer at Deloitte Africa, imagines the future of work. The future of work holds myriad possibilities for change that business needs to adapt to. In order to do so, we need to understand the interconnections between evolving...

Ignorance of the Labour Relations Act (specifically Schedule 8: Code of Good Practice: Dismissal), combined with a lack of relevant skills and issues with enforcement are among the challenges faced by employers in managing discipline. As HR and HCM services and...

Taking control ... working women often think about it, but being brave enough to do it is a different story. Women's Day has to be a good time to change all that. Mosima Selekisho, director of Signium Africa (previously Talent Africa), looks at how this can be...

South African companies are in dire need of skilled and experienced ICT professionals, particularly software developers, coders and data analysts. As a result, for those companies that employ these professionals, staff retention is an ongoing challenge. While many...

On paper, there is no doubt that women have made great progress in the workplace - in Europe, the percentage of women represented on large company boards has almost doubled over the past five years to 25%. Women also outnumber male university graduates in 95 of 144...

Marisa Jacobs, director and head of immigration and mobility at Xpatweb, unpacks what's required to obtain a work visa for a foreign skilled employee. In truth, it's extremely easy if you know what you need and how to go about it, but near impossible if you are...

Rene Miles, MD of Novare Investments, penned this open letter to the women who are in or want to enter the financial services industry. Certain stereotypes associated with the financial services industry remain true - the industry is still male dominated, men earn...

Companies need to rethink payroll services and follow the international trend of investing more in mobile self-service solutions. This is the word from Lavine Haripersad, a director at the South African Payroll Association (SAPA), who says: "It's time to put payroll...

The current economic climate is compelling South African and global businesses alike to make organisational changes, sometimes leading to staff being retrenched. As this continues to become a reality for more and more South Africans, individuals are looking for ways...

The scale, scope and complexity of change that comes along with the today's technological revolution is unlike anything we've seen before, writes Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. The potential for advancement is made exponentially larger by emerging...

The world of work has changed. The gig economy, the flexible worker, the agile desk and the remote employee - all these possibilities have been enabled by technology and impact on how teams engage and interact. However, South Africa remains somewhat in the tentative...