People & Culture

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,

Temporary and casual staffing platform Sidekicker, has released its first New Zealand Jobs Index, revealing that tight hiring conditions are finally easing for businesses. The data for June recorded more than a 211 percent increase year-on-year (YoY) in the application-to-shift ratio. This is despite the average business posting 46 percent more shifts YoY. The Sidekicker Jobs Index analyses data from more than 2,500 workers across businesses from several sectors in New Zealand, including hospitality and events, warehousing and logistics, customer service, administration and office support. Overall, there was a 67 percent YoY increase in the number of casuals being hired per business, with hourly rates rising four percent YoY. Between May and June, there was a 24 percent rise in