A survey conducted by Unlimited magazine has discovered that it is definitely a lonely place for CEOs at the top of the corporate mountain.

Most workplaces seem ill-prepared to accommodate the new law change which would allow managers to withhold workers' regular breaks and offer to pay for their time or trade for time off later.nzherald.co.nz contacted 50 major New...

A thousand more businesses closed than opened last year.

A sharp rise in business confidence seen in recent months has stalled in latest National Bank Business Outlook report.Overall, a net 48 per cent of respondents expect an improvement in business conditions in the year ahead compared...

New Zealand's dole queue has shrunk for the first time this year, raising hopes that employment might pick up sooner than expected.Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett said 1950 people signed up for the unemployment...

Facebook and other social networking websites have become the hottest tools in the tech-savvy job-seeker's kit in this recession."They were there pre-recession," says Kate Ross, founder of Kinetic Recruitment and columnist on...

There is more evidence that the unemployment rate might not peak above 7.5% next year

Expect to wait between six and 12 months for this quarter's sharp rise in business confidence to translate into jobs.

Our employees are feeling the strain of the recession, as evidenced in a recent survey of Australian and New Zealand workplaces by international recruitment agency Hudson. But someone needs to spare a thought for the employers...

Employers are intending to hire more staff, with a greater variety of skills in demand than earlier in the year, a new survey shows.

The time it takes for businesses to pay each other has declined, a sign that local economic conditions are improving

Perhaps you've heard the saying, the future of a nation is as bright as the students who graduate from its schools and universities.In our case that's a bright future. For a start, that's because the numbers are good. Some 44...

A measure of activity in the services sector showed further expansion in September, and indicators suggest more growth is on the way.

Workers think there will be more jobs around in a year, and that they will be making more money, according to a bank survey.

Bosses beware – a rise in job confidence could lead to a rush to the exits by disengaged employees, research from Manpower’s talent management arm Right Management suggests. And it also shows that badly performing organisations are the worst at managing their people and most at risk of a staff exodus.

With a slow recovery in the recession-hit world economy, New Zealand manufacturers have yet to see a major lift in demand across their sector.

Since July we have seen a consistent increase in activity and by all accounts it looks set to continue for the rest of 2009. However we are realistic and we expect, as is normal, that we will find the school holidays and first...

The number of unemployed has jumped by 10,000 in the last quarter - but the rate of growth has slowed dramatically meaning good news for the economy and the Government.

“Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow,” as T S Eliott put it. The New Zealand economy is now in that shadow land. Today’s quarterly survey of business opinion from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research shows the largest pick up in business confidence in a decade – up to +27% in the September quarter from -14% in the June quarter.

Businesses are not expecting to lay off more staff in the December quarter, after chopping workers for the past 18 months, according to a survey.

The candidate-rich job market is beginning to change, albeit tentatively, says recruitment firm Robert Walters

Kiwis' earnings were mostly unchanged in the June quarter, though there was variation between different age groups

Michele Olney was horrified when she heard someone advocating good old-fashioned doorknocking as the way to get a job.Ms Olney, who had just been made redundant as an in-house recruiter for a multinational, was at a seminar for...

Fruit growers fear there will not be enough unemployed Kiwis to replace overseas workers this season.

New Zealand's annual population gain from migration reached a five-year high in September, new figures from Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) show.

Labour costs have increased 2.8% in the year to the June 2009 quarter, Statistics New Zealand says

The number of employees planning to change jobs is rising as the worst of the economic downturn looks to have passed, a new survey shows.