2012-05-24 09:23:07 // Idealog
Finsia yesterday announced the launch of a new industry body – the Women in Financial Services Forum – in partnership with BNZ, to tackle gender equity in the industry.
2012-05-22 13:42:44 // Katherine Ravenswood
// The Idealog Blog
| 2 comments
Our residential caregivers provide an indispensable service. It’s time we recognised the work for what it is, and rewarded it accordingly.
2012-05-15 10:31:02 // Esther Goh
Bosses won't be required to partake in multi-employer bargaining or (in a return to the original Employment Relations Act) have to conclude a collective agreement under a package of employment law measures approved by Cabinet yesterday.
2012-05-10 16:41:49 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 7 comments
Use spell check. Please. I don’t care how good you think your spelling is – if you’re typing in a hurry, mistakes creep in like plaque.
2012-05-04 09:51:01 // Idealog
It's one of our most iconic brands, and now more than 7,000 Kiwis have voted Air New Zealand the country's best employer for the second year running, rating highly in management, working environment, salary and benefits, training and interesting job content.
2012-04-26 15:39:14 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 2 comments
Instant messaging! We are so hip and cool right now. Like banjo-playing penguins.
2012-03-15 15:59:30 // Idealog
As businesses struggle to manage the proliferation of consumer devices invading the workspace, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies are being viewed as one solution. But staff aren't so hot on the idea.
2012-03-14 10:17:08 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 8 comments
Tattoos are most common these days and sported by all sorts. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that.
2012-02-28 13:57:26 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 12 comments
I have been trying for years to get an employer to include ‘Spinster’ on my business card.
2012-02-13 15:30:47 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 10 comments
Given the popularity of networking I fully expect it to soon become a university subject, if it hasn’t already.
2012-01-31 16:36:03 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 12 comments
Does anyone else find it tricky to maintain 100 percent cleanliness in the language stakes?
2011-12-19 11:30:18 // Idealog
More than two-thirds of Kiwis feel they are underpaid for their work and half are expecting a pay increase soon, according to the Randstad Workmonitor report released today.
2011-11-28 17:31:30 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 2 comments
When your workmates roll with Voldemort, perhaps it's time to consider quitting.
2011-10-18 16:38:13 // Esther Goh
The election battle is officially heating up, with National promising to sweeten Kiwisaver with auto-enrolment and Labour touting industry-specific minimum wage levels.
2011-10-18 09:10:17 // Penelope Whitson
// The Idealog Blog
| 13 comments
We’re told to do what makes us happy. Sadly, what makes me happy is lying in bed knowing eggs benedict and the newspaper are on the way.
2011-09-06 14:40:49
// The Idealog Blog
| 1 comment
Are defined hours of work an anachronism that’s holding us back? Or is the freedom to work whenever we want something still reserved for a select few, and/or a trap that causes us to work more rather than less? Mathew Ingram ponders the evolving workplace
2011-07-12 09:20:23 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
US business consultant, speaker and author John Hagel has plenty of opinions on the state of the company, our changing corporate world and today's modern workforce.
2010-08-31 12:15:05 // Cassie Doherty
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
Are you guilty of using unnecessary—and pretentious—business jargon? It doesn't make you seem any cleverer, you know, but some of us just can't help it: paradigm, mindshare, blue-sky thinking, granularity, calendarise, and even stupid expressions like 'open the kimono' and 'boil the ocean'. Unsuck-it can help you stop with the buzzwords (or at least find some new ones to annoy your co-workers). Go on, drink the Kool-Aid ...
2010-06-23 16:30:35 // Vicki Holder
// The Idealog Blog
| 1 comment
Mark Gascoigne trumped this year’s 2010 RED (Retail Design) Awards winning 8 of the 18 categories. How has he cornered this neck of the design woods so neatly?
2009-07-06 10:56:00 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #22: workshop
The ‘nine-day fortnight’ will report for duty at many workplaces this jolly July. On the tenth day, we’ll be rested
