The prevailing view before the pandemic was that offices were necessary for ensuring productivity, culture, and team camaraderie. However, with two out of every three Australians working from home and workforce productivity increasing by 6.5 percent over the year, it...
Flexible work is no longer an afterthought for employees, it’s the future of work…and it’s happening now. Flexible working was once a perk, now it’s a necessity and it plays a large part in how potential employees choose their employer. If you’re about to start...
The common perception is that diversity and inclusion is an HR prerogative. But that’s not true. While the HR team is responsible for driving diversity and inclusion in the workplace, it needs to be a leadership priority that works from the top down. Embracing...
The impact of COVID-19 on our ways of working has been staggering. The most obvious, the shift to remote work, has impacted organisational cultures and employee engagement almost overnight. Beyond remote work, it has accelerated a number of key future of work trends,...
In the last few weeks, there's been a lot of content floating around about remote work. But many of these articles assume that even if everyone isn't working at the same place, they're all working at the same time. However, it’s worth considering, once you've given...
We made a big move at the end of 2016. After three decades in our headquarters, Herrmann went completely virtual. This virtual workplace reflects the increasingly global and dispersed nature of our organisation—many of our employees are scattered across countries,...
Some people think that when they reach the top of the corporate ladder, they no longer need to participate in team-building or leadership development activities. But these exercises are as valuable for Senior Executives as they are for office workers and lower...
Our bet for the biggest idea in management for 2020? Cognitive diversity. Cognitive diversity is a broad concept, but we define it as the differences in the thinking (i.e. cognition, perspective or information processing styles) that people use to process the world...
As much as some people want to believe they are, no one is good at absolutely everything. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses. And that’s okay. At Herrmann, we believe that there is no wrong, right, good or bad. Thinking is situational, so a certain thinking...
