by Dianne Bayley | Oct 11, 2022 | Workplace 2020
South Africa’s unemployment statistics are heartbreaking: 33.9% of our workforce is without employment, with 47% of the country’s women of working age remaining economically inactive, compared to 35.6% of men facing the same fate, writes Shivani Ramsaroop, HR Manager...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 9, 2022 | Workplace 2020
As offices around the world continue to open for business, many companies are expecting their employees to return full time. However, new research suggests this isn’t likely to happen, the majority enjoy the flexibility they’ve been given to work from anywhere and are...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 22, 2022 | Workplace 2020
Most South African organisations have been affected by the Great Resignation, especially IT teams, writes Loubna Imenchal, Head of Video Collaboration, Logitech AMECA. PWC’s Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2022, which includes 1,043 South African respondents,...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 8, 2022 | Sustainability
South Africa is currently experiencing a massive shortage of ICT skills, notes Frik van der Westhuizen, CEO of EQPlus. According to recent research, the country lacks at least 70 000 ICT professionals which is further exacerbated by the declining number of graduates....
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
Popular opinion is that Henry Ford led the charge in introducing a five-day working week in 1926. Now almost a hundred years later the necessity for this is being reevaluated as organisations and country leaders assess whether there is perhaps a better way of working...