Tag: communication

Pandemic-related uncertainty and stress saw human resource (HR) departments emerge as valuable partners in ensuring business continuity and success. The role of HR practitioners has evolved, and they are now more important than ever as crucial support structures for employees and facilitators of their overall wellbeing.

The 2022 Gen Next report reveals what feels like unprecedented chaos as an ongoing theme experienced by the youth of South Africa. Youth unemployment, a shrinking economy, load shedding, looting and lockdown restrictions are but several contentious issues the youth were dealing with when the research study was infield.

Keeping up with the fast-paced, ever-changing digital world can be difficult, especially as this change seems to happen faster and faster every year, with new technologies, solutions and tools constantly cropping up. And while the digital world is inevitably driven by change, this change also brings with it a fair share of pitfalls and challenges.

Change continues to drive the business world, creating a need for executive development and growth.

You may as well rip up your ‘terms of employment’ because COVID-19 has taken us back to the drawing board. The pandemic has forced us to completely re-evaluate the concept of a ‘9 to 5’ and being in the office on a daily basis.

COVID-19 came to be the reset button for our world. There is massive innovation afoot: everything is becoming digital, interaction, distribution channels, and a myriad of new receiving devices to play in this digital space. There is also a greater choice, giving the user the control to demand what they need, when they need it, and where, allowing people to craft the services they desire.

An often-used metaphor to describe the concept of business is the armed forces. You have the general at the top and a series of levels of hierarchy below – right down to the lower ranks who go off to fight the war as soldiers, sailors or pilots.

Many employers are still not aware of the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (RICA) that came into effect at the end of September 2005 and that it was amended in 2008.

Gys Kappers | CEO | Wyzetalk | gys.kappers@wyzetalk.com | www.wyzetalk.com | With technology integrated into virtually all aspects of business, it has become easy to...

Maricelle Boshoff | Operations Manager | HansaWorld South Africa | maricelle@hansaworld.com | www.hansaworld.com | African companies need to implement new technologies if they are to...