Category Archives: Staff Functions

Beware the Silly Season

Alert: The Greener Pastures Syndrome….

It is normal behaviour for people to take stock of their lives, their work, their weight, their fitness & health during the festive season break. New Years Resolutions are usually to make fairly significant changes in lives: ‘I’m going to join a gym’, ‘I’m going to give up smoking’, ‘I’m going to examine my career and make a change’ – you’ve all heard them before. Sometimes this means people making a decision to seek alternative employment. A high proportion of job hunting and fulfilment takes place between mid-January and end of February each year – that’s when people are looking, are recruited and the most jobs are out there enticing your employees to ‘greener pastures’ (or so they think..)

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Top 10 Tips for Minimising Risk When Hosting an Office Christmas Party

With Spring Racing Carnival over, the party season continues on with Christmas and New Year celebrations. For businesses, it is a time to celebrate with your staff and recognise their great efforts. It is also a time when hosting the end of year Christmas party can cause major headaches and exposure to breaches of health & safety, complaints of bullying and other forms of discrimination and harassment, particularly sexual harassment.

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