HR Insider | June 2023

Welcome to the June edition of ELMO’s HR Insider newsletter. 

We’ve brought together stories, news and research from around the web that we hope you’ll get a lot out of. 

In this month’s edition, we’ve included some of our top picks from the ELMO Resources Hub, including the pros and cons of ‘quiet hiring’, and tips on breaking the stigma around mental health in the workplace from Acacia Connection’s Matt Walters. 

We’ve also been shining a spotlight on the gender pay gap as Australia moves towards implementing new wage gap reporting laws. We took a look at the most recent data and numbers in Australia and New Zealand to examine some of the driving factors behind the gender pay gap. Read the article below and make sure to check out the ELMO Resources Hub for more gender pay gap content.

Happy reading!

Check out the latest content from ELMO

3 Ways HR Can Help Reduce the Stigma Around Asking for Help. We spoke to Matt Walters at Acacia Connection recently to get his expert advice on creating a speak-up culture in the workplace and breaking down the stigma around mental health.

What is Quiet Hiring? Introducing the Latest Workplace Trend. After ‘quiet quitting’, there now comes ‘quiet hiring’. But is this a good or a bad thing for employees and businesses? Find out for yourself in our blog.

Tackling the Gender Pay Gap: 5 Causes of Pay Inequality. In many countries around the world, including Australia and NZ, the gender pay gap is slowly shrinking. But to close it completely we first need to fully understand what’s causing it. 

“When we consider the health of an employee, we cannot just consider their physical health.”

Matt Walters, Acacia Connection

Announcing our new panel series: ‘The Voice of HR’

We were proud to hold our inaugural ‘The Voice of HR’ panel series live at ELMO HQ this month. To kick things off, the focus point of this session was ‘From Awareness to Action: Empowering Change to Close the Gender Pay Gap’. 

Award-winning moderator Sunita Gloster was joined by business leaders to discuss Australia’s new gender pay gap reporting laws and what this means for the future of gender pay equity.

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Elsewhere on the web… 

It seems like everyone is talking about generative AI lately - and with good reason. Gen AI like ChatGPT can and will have massive consequences for the future of the workforce and HR in particular. How will it affect recruitment? Should it be used in performance reviews? Listen to this episode of McKinsey TalksTalent here: Generative AI and the future of HR.

We’ve been talking about the ‘four-day workweek' for a few years now, with various hypotheses, experiments and results. Now, Swinburne University of Technology has released its findings on the subject. Find out what they discovered here: The four-day workweek verdict is in.

And on the topic of the global gender pay gap, a new report has found that while no country has succeeded in closing the gender pay gap, New Zealand ranks in the top five most gender-equal societies. Read the article here: Another 131 years to close global gender gap, World Economic Forum report finds

Helping our customers achieve their goals

Good Sammy is a WA-based NFP that has a big focus on training and development for their team members, both new hires and existing staff. But for Nicole Mola, Good Sammy’s L&D Manager, it was difficult trying to manage and track staff training due to outdated, manual processes and a heavy reliance on spreadsheets. 

Find out how Nicole was able to revolutionise the way Good Sammy delivers and manages its staff training. ⬇️

That wraps up another ELMO HR Insider! Make sure you keep your eyes on our socials to be the first to know about newly released content as well as upcoming events and announcements.