Skip to content

Leading with Impact: How Leadership Shapes Employee Engagement

By Clementine.Evans@adecco.com.au | February 9, 2024
A confident business leader giving a presentation to a team in a modern office, emphasizing leadership and impact.

Retaining employees is hard work. Replacing them if they leave is expensive. The solution to both of these problems is keeping employees engaged. According to research quoted by workforce communication specialists Haiilo, 63.3% of companies say that retaining employees is actually harder than hiring them. And a recent survey by HR software company ELMO found that it costs around…

Read More

Chatbots: Streamlining the Recruitment Process and Enhancing Employee Engagement

By Clementine.Evans@adecco.com.au | February 8, 2024
Hands typing on a laptop with a digital interface overlay showing options for email, phone, and chatbot communication.

Everyone who uses the internet regularly will almost certainly have had some interaction with chatbots. A chatbot is an advanced form of user interface for a computer application which uses artificial intelligence – in particular machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and, more recently, generative AI – in order to act as a human-like conversational…

Read More

Keeping the Human Element in AI-Driven Recruitment

By JH | October 28, 2023
HR specialist's hands typing on a keyboard to find candidates, with social media icons on the screen.

There’s absolutely no doubt that AI recruitment is revolutionising the talent acquisition process. LinkedIn reports that 35%-45% of businesses are already using AI recruitment tools, including 99% of Fortune 500 companies. While the term ‘artificial intelligence’ simply refers to the simulation of human intelligence by software-driven machines, many people who see the initialism ‘AI’ immediately…

Read More

Fostering a Culture of Care: Mental Health Inclusivity in the Workplace

By support | October 11, 2023
Three colleagues sitting around a conference table, engaged in a meeting with a laptop in front of them. The woman in the center is smiling and appears to be enjoying the discussion.

Large numbers of people who lived through the COVID pandemic will have experienced mental health challenges, whether from the effects of burnout as front-line responders, or from feelings of isolation and depression and fear about the future. But it’s easy to forget that for some, mental well-being concerns are not in the past, but an…

Read More