HR

A committed and engaged workforce is essential to deliver a winning offering in a competitive retail environment, says Michael Schneider, MD of Bunnings Warehouse. Speaking yesterday at an event hosted by Facebook for its Workplace product, Schneider outlined how the home improvement retailer approaches employee engagement. Sign up for Which-50’s

Cloud-based HR start-up Enboarder has closed $AU11.6 million (US$8 million) in Series A financing, led by Greycroft, which also participated in the company’s previous AU$5 million funding round. Enboarder has raised $AU17.3 million to date. New investors, Next Coast Ventures and Stage 2 Capital also participated in the round. Sign

Leaning on technology to improve the employee experience has led the HR team at insurance company IAG to work more closely with both IT and analytics. Speaking to Which-50 between sessions at ServiceNow’s user conference in Las Vegas this week, David Lahood, Executive Manager, Systems & Partnering at IAG, said

Organisations must find a way to address the needs of modern workers as employees grow increasingly frustrated with workplaces that expect them to work with outdated, slow and complex technology, according to Gartner. Technology now ranks in the top 10 reasons Australian employees will leave their current role, according to

Successful digital transformation initiatives must be accompanied by culture changes, says Gartner. That means CIOs responsible for digital initiatives will need to play a key role in establishing the right mindsets and practices. Gartner predicts that by 2021, CIOs will be as responsible for culture change as chief HR officers

Adobe famously open sourced its innovation program called Red Box and now it is doing the same with its approach to improving employee performance. According to the company, most US office workers participate in annual traditional performance reviews, but a large majority call the process outdated, time-consuming and stressful. Sign up