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At Humankind we like to share what we are working on or ideas we think will help you and your organisation to thrive. We're passionate about what we do and don't think we should keep it to ourselves.

Deciding what’s most important right now – times have changed!
04
June
2020

Deciding what’s most important right now – times have changed!

COVID-19 has brought with it a huge amount of upheaval for businesses. Many have had to slow down, stop or change in response to the lockdown and current economic environment.

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Restructuring with humanity
19
May
2020

Restructuring with humanity

As a number of us breathed a sigh of relief to be moving to Alert Level 2, there are many employers who are having to make the tough, heartbreaking decision to cut costs and make people redundant.

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COVID-19 Considerations for employers
30
March
2020

COVID-19 Considerations for employers

Each employee will experince the impacts of COVID-19 in a difffrent way. We encourage all leaders to have empathy with each employee, while still making the necessary decisions.

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Health & Safety when working from home
13
March
2020

Health & Safety when working from home

For many of us, COVID-19 has turned of homes into our place of work. Many employers are scratching their heads about what this means from a health and safety perspective. Are they now responsible for every employee's 'workplace' even when they have no control over the employee's home?

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Mental Health Awareness Week: Developing an employee-centred approach to wellbeing at Humankind
13
September
2019

Mental Health Awareness Week: Developing an employee-centred approach to wellbeing at Humankind

With so much of our lives affected bye what happens at work, we're excited to share our thoughts about supporting wellbeing in the workplace. In this post w describe how we recently refreshed our own Wellbeing Philosophy using Employee Centred Design.

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Is your work culture determined by the personalities of your people?
09
August
2019

Is your work culture determined by the personalities of your people?

In 2018, Google Labs wanted to find the secret recipe for a perfect team to settle the debate once and for all! They called this: "Project Aristotle".

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Employee experience is as much about people as it is the design we wrap around them.
09
August
2019

Employee experience is as much about people as it is the design we wrap around them.

Erica Keswin went from discouraged consultant to workplace stragegist. Like many of us, she found herself working on projects that weren't going anywhere.

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Understanding Employee Experience: Part 3
22
July
2019

Understanding Employee Experience: Part 3

In New Zealand, we tend to take a pretty DIY approach to many things. Our organisations are small on the global scale, so we tend to wear multiple hats and do what we can to keep costs down.

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Understanding Employee Experience: Part 2
10
July
2019

Understanding Employee Experience: Part 2

In my first article in this series, I intruduced a new model of Employee Experince with the acronym PREP, that layt the foundation for organisations to deliver more employee focused outcomes.

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Understanding Employee Experience: Part 1
09
July
2019

Understanding Employee Experience: Part 1

This is the first article in a series of 3 to be published over coming weeks, sharing my throughts on how we can make the concept of 'Employee Experince' something that has meaning and value.

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