
AFR — Staff retention strategies top of mind for finance bosses
Kris Grant, CEO of ASPL Group, shares strategies for retaining staff, in response to the tightening labour market and talent shortage with the Australian Financial Review.
The spread of COVID-19 has led to travel restrictions, school closures, and cities around the world moving towards lockdowns. Amid these new conditions, most of us still need to continue our day to day work. But the way we do this is rapidly changing, with many organisations implementing new social distancing guidelines including working from home measures.
Over the past few weeks several clients are reaching out with challenges around travel restrictions and leading remote employees. For many businesses, this is the first time their entire workforce is working from home and given how quickly these changes have come into place, many managers are finding themselves unprepared to lead a fully remote team.
Here are my top tips on managing newly remote teams.
Kris Grant, CEO of ASPL Group, shares strategies for retaining staff, in response to the tightening labour market and talent shortage with the Australian Financial Review.
‘Employees who aren’t happy will walk’, CEO Kris Grant shares her thoughts on the latest employee turnover rates as many individuals take the lyrics from Beyonce’s newest single as a sign to hand in their resignation.
In the first half of 2022, Australian job advertisements reached its highest record level in 16 years. The rise of recruitment activity meant job ads were 25.7% higher compared to a year ago and 77.3% higher (or about 130,100 available positions) than pre-covid levels. SEEK revealed that job ads rose 2.1% from April and 25.6% year over year.
Most industries across Australia are suffering from skill and talent shortages. The National Skills Commission predicts almost a million new jobs will be created by 2025 on top of this. Our CEO Kris Grant shares with the @Smart Company’s five strategic priorities to retain staff to ensure businesses survive in one of the most challenging skill crises we have had in a long time.
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