As the year wraps up, it’s a great time to acknowledge your team’s hard work and prepare for a fresh start in 2025.

Since the Covid pandemic, New Zealand has seen a record immigration boom to fill major skills shortages. While the gains are now slowing, in the year to August we’ve seen a net 53,800 new Kiwis arrive on our shores. As a result, today’s workplaces have grown in cultural diversity.

While restructures are commonly talked about and various behavioural issues emerging, a theme in workplaces at the moment is a rise in absenteeism.

It is important that your business is structured for success, in both good times and bad. Reviewing and restructuring staff roles and responsibilities can ensure that you have the right roles in place to meet your business demands.

With diverse personalities and professional approaches in the workplace, communication can sometimes go off the rails.

As we head towards the middle of 2024, high interest rates and inflationary pressures have made it harder than usual for Kiwi businesses to thrive.

It all sounds too good to be true but following changes to fringe benefit tax (FBT) rules last year our Auckland Tax and Human Resources teams have combined their expertise to establish a leading-edge Sustainable Commuter Scheme that benefits employers and their employees.

The past few years have thrown some real challenges at leaders and now is the time, more than ever, for leaders to step up to the plate and shine.

Employers will be subject to minimum wage increases from April this year.

Employers now have a welcome boost to their hiring powers with the return of the 90-day trial period.

Today, for the everyday business owner or manager, the people management element of their businesses has significantly increased.

Well-run meetings are an amazing thing but when meetings are poorly executed, they can be extremely frustrating.