As you will know, one of the aims of HR Club Sydney is help share knowledge and insight into what is best practice in HR, so that as a group we can lift the profession by not all reinventing the wheel in our respective companies. I have had a few questions about employee benefits programmes recently so I thought it might be worthwhile running a short survey which...

Well hi there. Yes it’s been a while… one of my longest breaks yet. I like blogging, but I never blog because I feel I have to. I only write when I’m up for it and sometimes, other things take priority. So what’s been happening in my patch in the last few weeks? For those who attended the last HR Club Sydney Event- thank you. Again, it is...

A few friends of mine have recently been made redundant and the company has handled it extremely poorly. One dragged them into a room at 5pm on a Friday and told them the reason they were hired was no longer relevant and that they should consider this their 4 weeks notice. No letters or anything. They were shocked and confused as to whether they were fired or made...

Waaay back when I first joined twitter, I made friends with a guy who worked in HR in Boston, MA. Lovely guy to connect with and also hassle about when he’s coming back to Australia! Chris Ferdinandi writes at RenegadeHR.net, tweets at @ChrisFerdinandi and has written a few ebooks you may be interested in. “Culture Convo” is one for those...