Padma Iyer

Dec 3, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Padma Iyer

Technology sector has the highest employee engagement, the latest global workplace report 2024 from employee experience platform WorkL has found. This means that technology companies have found the magic potion that gets the best out of their employees and keeps them happy at work. The report has also found that in Australia, empowerment is the most important driver of workplace happiness.

Apr 11, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Padma Iyer |Mark Price

There are six essential measures of the happiest places to work. The WorkL methodology of identifying the best places to work – which are also the happiest places to work – is a score based on the six criteria. Everyone craves recognition of their efforts and worth, with this being a core emotional driver. While financial reward is clearly important, the need for recognition is typically undervalued.

Apr 11, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Padma Iyer |Mark Price

The world’s largest live employee engagement data platform, WorkL, which powers The Australian’s Best Places to Work 2024 Awards, reveals that half of employers believe that Generation Z is not entering the workplace well-equipped with the skills and knowledge needed for their roles. The annual WorkL Global Workforce Report 2024, which was published in Q1 of 2024 found that mentoring initiatives are being implemented by employers to support Gen Z, with four in 10 employers taking the step.

Apr 11, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Padma Iyer

Several Australian workplaces have very strong credentials to be among the happiest places in Australia. In its efforts to find the best places to work, The Australian found that many organisations in the nation show enormous innovation, drive, resourcefulness and talent to push forward even as the economic landscape within the nation and in the rest of the world is changing at a fast pace.

Apr 11, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Mark Price |Padma Iyer

I am often asked “what makes a great workplace?” My answer is always the same, no matter where you work – having a great boss. You see our research at WorkL, gathered from our “Happy at Work” test, shows a perfect correlation between the score an employee gives to the question “I have a good relationship with my manager”, and their overall happiness at work score measured by that and 20 other questions.