Education & Training

More than two-thirds of Kiwi workers say their employers aren’t doing enough to care for the environment, with 19 percent confirming their employer could do more. Furthermore, 54 percent of workers saying none of their expectations are being met when it comes to their employer’s sustainability practices. The Frog Recruitment poll surveyed 955 New Zealand workers about their employers’ environmental values and only 27 percent of workers said the company they worked for were going over and above to protect the environment. While 40 percent of the workforce said it is very important ‘ or ‘important’ that their employer contributes to good environmental practices – up from 25 percent from another Frog Recruitment poll conducted last year – 60 percent

Fast-growing Kiwi recruitment agency Hirestaff has released the findings from its latest recruitment surveys, and while there are challenges, there’s still plenty of confidence out there in the market. In an industry that’s been handicapped by disruption and uncertainty in recent times, Hirestaff is one recruitment company that’s still enjoying remarkable growth and success. It has achieved an astonishing 410 percent surge in job placements from 2021 to 2023, and sales revenue has risen from $1.3 million in 2020 to $22 million in 2023. “The past few years have been an exciting ride for us. The amazing growth we’ve experienced reflects our commitment to our clients, candidates, and our mission to get great job matches sorted fast,” says director Jonny

Business coach and author Chris Taylor talks to NZBusiness editor Glenn Baker about his new book and why every business owner, no matter what stage of their journey, can learn from it. NZB: Chris, congratulations on your first book. How did you get the idea for the book and its title? What’s the story behind it all? Chris: Well, the book idea had been bouncing around in my head for around eight years. I was part of a speaking association from 2013, surrounded by many speakers who were also authors. I always thought authoring was something other people did. It seemed errant and fanciful and not necessarily the keystone for building a small business. What also prompted me was a

Callaghan Innovation has launched a counselling service to support founders whose mental health is suffering due to the significant pressures associated with establishing and growing a startup. Plans for the service were announced at the Electrify Aotearoa conference on 1 August at the same time as the organisation launched a guidance and resolution service for any startup founder who has experienced inappropriate behaviour within the startup ecosystem. The findings of an online survey of 258 startup founders in New Zealand conducted over a two-week period in August have also been released today. The survey by Horizon Research was commissioned by Callaghan Innovation to gain insight into the types of issues impacting the mental wellbeing of founders and to better understand

OSACO Group is launching a new certified training offering which it believes will be the global gold standard for workplace misconduct investigation training. The certified training is described as “robust, thorough, up-to-date, fit-for-purpose, supported by ongoing mentoring, and backed up by a re-certification process to ensure organisational knowledge and individual competence is maintained”. “We are delighted to introduce this offering to the market,” says OSACO Group Managing Director Jaydene Buckley. “We have seen this need for this some time and prepared our content thoroughly and thoughtfully to meet the current and anticipated need for such training around the world.” “Our certified training can be delivered in any location, in person and online,” adds OSACO Group’s Global Head of Training Rachel

Three quarters of workplaces experience high stress and burnout, according to world-first ROW survey. A ground-breaking survey of workplace wellbeing professionals show that almost three quarters of workplaces (74%) have staff experiencing high levels of stress and/or burnout, and poor wellbeing has caused employees at almost two thirds of workplaces (65%) to leave their job.   Additionally, only a quarter of workplaces are managing workloads appropriately, wellbeing managers in the survey say. Revolutionaries of Wellbeing (ROW), a New Zealand-based network of workplace wellbeing professionals, carried out the survey in June this year and ROW’s CEO, Sarah McGuinness (pictured), say the results are confronting, although not unexpected. Leaders support wellbeing as a concept, but there’s a disconnect between thinking and action,