Worksucks

  With the days heating up and workplaces cooling down, it is a sunny forecast for staff crossing off the weeks until their annual leave. Leave, is something to look forward to and the earlier you start the clock, the less you have to be concerned about the daily irritations. You just have to survive until your leave [...]

  Money buys happiness For many years, consultants, especially those in the reward profession, have contended that there is more to attracting and retaining talent, than money. While that assertion may be valid for those occupying the seven figure levels of the organisation or those paid to do nothing, the masses would disagree. Money is the [...]

  They say that one should be hungry for success.  This month I want to highlight those individuals, that are hungry for moolah and to grab a line from Spur, “Come Hungry” to the office each day.   Lifestyle Audits Who said that auditing is boring, devoid of glamour? In recent months, calls for a [...]

So its TGIF time again – I’ve rounded up 35 reasons for that smile on your face

Get a glimpse behind the corporate glass with HR Future’s workplace radical.

During a bull run, as we have experienced in the past five years, employers were throwing money at HR and talent, with the concentration of an intoxicated driver on the N1. Let’s build the employment brand for a million or two. Call the workplace a “campus” or “academy”, without changing much else. So faddish. Bump up ETD (education, training and development) claiming better business performance. Forget about return on investment. Need to hire talent? Just bid higher than competitors, without investigating the individual’s track record…

It was Albert Schweitzer (philosopher, physician and humanitarian)nbsp; that said happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. After this month, I wish that he had mentioned the difficulties of health and memories…