Jerome Doraisamy

2 weeks ago | hrleader.com.au | Jerome Doraisamy

| |6 minute read HR is stuck in a loop of recycled ideas and fear-based decision making. How can we break this cycle? If HR is serious about the future of work, it needs a total reset, said Jessy Warn, director and managing partner at no-nonsense consultancy firm HR Gurus. “HR spends more time writing policies than solving problems. We talk about bold ideas but run performance reviews like it’s 1995,” Warn said.

3 weeks ago | cyberdaily.au | Jerome Doraisamy |David Hollingworth

Annie Haggar: It certainly is. If anything – if my workload is anything to go by, and those of my colleagues – I think there are a couple of reasons for that. There was a general slowdown in attacks in Australia while a lot of the threat actors globally were being incentivised, for various reasons, to focus their attention on the US. But once the US election was over and it was more into the transition period, they started to focus their attention back on the rest of the world.

3 weeks ago | cyberdaily.au | Jerome Doraisamy

Later in March,the firm sought and obtained an injunction banning “dissemination of the impacted confidential information” in the wake of an alleged ransomware attack. In conversation with Lawyers Weekly, Redacted Information Security director and principal consultant, Remy Coll, (pictured) said that from what is known about the Brydens incident, “the attackers’ motive appears to be financial, and that they are seeking blackmail payments from Bryden clients, and the firm itself”.

3 weeks ago | hrleader.com.au | Jerome Doraisamy

| |5 minute read The Australian Taxation Office is set to increase the fixed rate for calculating working from home expenses to 70¢ per hour, from 1 July 2024. Editor’s note: This story first appeared on HR Leader’s sister brand, Accountants Daily. The ATO has updated Practical Compliance Guideline 2023/1 to increase the work-from-home fixed rate to 70¢ per hour. The new rate will apply for the 2024–25 financial year.

4 weeks ago | hrleader.com.au | Jerome Doraisamy

| |6 minute read An anthropologist says we’ve lost our ability to disagree – and it’s impacting our workplaces in a big way. A leading anthropologist has warned HR professionals that political correctness and cancel culture have created an environment of toxic hyper-positivity – and organisations are missing a vital strategic edge as a result.