Australia’s home-grown success story Atlassian has been recognised as one of the World’s Best Workplaces™, entering the definitive list of the best places to work for the first time.
Business should take a long term, planned approach to flexible working and not get caught up simply thinking about the end-of-lockdown return to office in Australia’s biggest cities, according to hybrid working experts.
Great Place to Work® asked two experts in flexible working to help businesses plan for the return to work over the next few months as pandemic lockdowns end.
The key message: a hybrid of in-office and at-home working is here to stay for the long term – and business leaders must take a considered approach to making it work in their organisations.
For all the talk about working from home, virtual Friday night drinks and Zoom calls, it was communication effectiveness that sets Australia’s Best Workplaces™ apart from others in coping with the pandemic.
With just days to go before the 2021 list of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ is revealed, I want to take a step back to last year and explore the themes that emerged from last year’s list.
More than 10,000 companies around the world apply to become Great Place to Work-Certified™ each year – and on Certification Nation Day, Great Place to Work® celebrates every single Certified company.
Focusing on your workplace ESG, which stands for the Environmental, Social and Governance impacts of an organisation’s activities, is the key to delivering all three of these goals.
How do you know that your organisation is psychologically safe?
It’s a critical question.
Psychological safety is one of the most important predictors of workplace success. But it’s also one of the least understood.
How do you know that your organisation is psychologically safe?
It’s a critical question.
Psychological safety is one of the most important predictors of workplace success. But it’s also one of the least understood.
After twelve months of lockdowns, home schooling and working remotely, 2021 will be the year of the great transition back to the workplace. But it is unlikely we will snap back to pre-COVID ways. Instead, the habits and skills picked up during the pandemic are going to create a new hybrid model – mixing in-office, at-home and on-site working. This new model will pose challenges for managers.
Flexibility is the mantra for 2021 as organisations begin the process of weaning workforces off the COVID-induced work-from-home approach to a hybrid model of in-office and off-site working. Great Place to Work® recently spoke to a range of Australia’s 2020 Best Workplaces™ about their return-to-office plans in 2021.
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To be eligible for the World’s Best Workplaces list, a company must apply and be named to a minimum of 5 national Best Workplaces lists within our current 58 countries, have 5,000 employees or more worldwide, and at least 40% of the company’s workforce (or 5,000 employees) must be based outside of the home country. Extra points are given based on the number of countries where a company surveys employees with the Great Place to Work Trust Index©, and the percentage of a company’s workforce represented by all Great Place to Work surveys globally. Candidates for the 2017 Worlds Best Workplaces list will have appeared on national workplaces lists published in September 2016 through August 2017.
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The Best Workplaces in Asia List
Great Place to Work® identifies the top organizations that create great workplaces in the Asian and Middle Eastern regions with the publication of the annual Best Workplaces in Asia list. The list recognizes companies in three size categories:
To be considered for inclusion, companies must appear on one or more of our national lists in the region, which includes Greater China (covering China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau), India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka and UAE. For the 2021 Asia List, companies ranked on the national list in the Philippines will also be included. Multinational organizations must meet the following requirements:
Multinationals also receive additional credit for their efforts to successfully create an excellent workplace culture in multiple countries in the region. The data used in the calculation of the regional list comes from national lists published in 2019 and early 2020.
