Category Archives: HR/Recruitment News

Throughout our lives we are faced with countless challenging decisions, many that influence the pathways we take and where we land on the career ladder. As an employer, and employee, in South Africa we are prone to focus on monetary and tangible elements in our work environment – raises, benefits, travel distance to work, working […]

Understanding how your employees, team and project members think is one of the key success drivers of managing resources and creating a strong team that work efficiently together to achieve strategic objectives. It takes more than dolling out a couple of high-fives at a team building event to produce a well-oiled team. Clashing opinions and […]

o The first automatic exchange of information between tax jurisdictions took place in September 2015. The system is aimed at assisting revenue authorities across the globe with combatting base erosion and profit shifting. o South African taxpayers who has been using offshore bank accounts to evade South African tax will be well advised to seek […]

The Virgin founder shares how making employees the top priority can bring benefits for both customers and investors. By Oscar Raymundo IMAGE: Getty Images Richard Branson was able to build Virgin into a global powerhouse by focusing on two key words: customer service. From Virgin Atlantic to Virgin Mobile, Branson says, each new Virgin venture […]

There are only two kinds of people – ducks and eagles. Ducks act like victims, and just go around saying ‘Quack! Quack! Quack!’ Eagles take the initiative and soar above the crowd. We all know that the best customer service has little to do with systems, processes, loyalty programmes and similar unless you first get […]

Is it time to ask for a raise? Neil Irwin at The Upshot writes that this could (finally) be a good year for wages, with small businesses, and a big health insurer, planning to increase pay. And The Billfold titled a recent post “The Year America Gets a Raise” (though its author, Mike Dang, also […]