May 5, 2021
CRS Technologies has partnered with Silver Swan HR Consulting to provide corporate customers with access to an independent employee wellness service that will assist in maintaining the mental and emotional wellbeing of a distributed workforce and alleviate business stress and pressure.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has seen many organisations adopt a blended model of working from home and at the office. While initially productive, remote employees have begun to display increasing levels of stress, anxiety, loneliness, and depression, given uncertainty about new waves of infection and the continued extension of lockdown conditions,” says Ian McAlister, GM at CRS Technologies.
This can result in unhappiness which, in turn, means employees are unproductive. Any negativity will eventually permeate the entire organisation, placing the resilience of the business at risk.
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Light on detail: the governmentâs response
The roadmap recognises the importance of a preventive approach to stop sexual harassment before it occurs. It also expresses agreement (either in full, in part or in principle) or ânotesâ the recommendations in the Respect@Work report.
This, however, falls significantly short of a commitment to fully implement all 55 recommendations put forth by Jenkins. For the roadmap to respond effectively to her damning findings, it must deliver radical change to ensure workplace equality in reality.
That said, there is no doubt the groundswell of public condemnation of sexual harassment has meaningfully shaped the governmentâs response.
A STICKING POINT
The Morrison government has accepted advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation that Pfizer should be the preferred COVID-19 vaccine for people under 50 (who have not already safely received the first AstraZeneca shot), with
Guardian Australia explaining that the AstraZeneca vaccine will come with a warning that people under 50 may face extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots.
In an evening press conference, chief medical officer
Paul Kelly emphasised that the incidence of blood clots from AstraZeneca is extremely rare averaging four to six cases per million vaccine recipients but the complication can cause a death rate of up to 25%.