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Kiwi Stories

Health and Wellbeing stories

Safety-first culture in construction

Smaller builders could struggle to meet the costs of tougher risk management as WorkSafe shifts towards education and culture over prosecution.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Thu, 17th Jul 2025

Human Capital Management

Is New Zealand really taking on too much debt?

Measured against its assets, New Zealand's debt looks far less alarming, but spending cuts could still deepen the recession and hurt recovery.

By Staff Writer • 5 min read • Sun, 11th May 2025

Employment

One in five NZ businesses say quiet quitting is taking place

Quiet quitting describes employees who opt out of tasks beyond their assigned role and become generally less invested in their work.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Fri, 8th Sep 2023

Global Stories

Health and Wellbeing stories

Digital Transformation

GMHBA boosts digital reliability with Dynatrace observability

GMHBA has deployed Dynatrace's observability platform to enhance IT performance and reliability, ensuring smoother digital service for its 320,000 members.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Wed, 24th Sep 2025

Virtualisation

APAC retailers are missing out on the benefits of personalisation technology

APAC retailers risk missing out as personalisation tech boosts loyalty and sales, with early adopters like Tesco reaping significant rewards.

By Aaron Crowe • 6 min read • Wed, 2nd Jul 2025

Human Capital Management

Thrive launches 'Wellness Era' with rewards for employee health

Thrive has launched the 'Wellness Era' programme, rewarding UK employees with cash and spa vouchers for improving sleep, stress, and physical activity.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Tue, 22nd Apr 2025

Cloudera

Cloudera named among Ireland's best workplaces for women

Cloudera has been honoured as one of Ireland's Best Workplaces for Women 2025, celebrating their ongoing commitment to supporting female employees.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Fri, 7th Mar 2025

Customer Experience

AI & employee focus to transform customer experience by 2025

As 2025 nears, AI advancements and a focus on employee well-being are set to significantly reshape the customer experience landscape, says Call Design.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 22nd Nov 2024

Apple

Apple adds hearing health features to AirPods Pro 2

Apple has launched new hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2, aimed at tackling noise exposure and aiding users with perceived hearing loss.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Tue, 29th Oct 2024

Human Capital Management

Deputy launches Shift Pulse+ to boost worker engagement & insight

Deputy boosts HR suite with Shift Pulse+ upgrade, enhancing employee engagement and sentiment insights to tackle staffing and retention challenges.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 15th Jul 2024

Human Capital Management

Vivup & Perkbox announce merger to boost UK employee benefits sector

Health and wellbeing providers Vivup and Perkbox reveal a merger backed by Great Hill Partners, striving for an all-in-one solution for UK employee benefits and wellbeing.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 21st Mar 2024

Stories from Other Regions

Health and Wellbeing stories

Health Technologies

Sol launches menopause app to support women & workplaces in Asia

Sol Menopause launches its app in Asia, offering medically reviewed support to women and employers for menopause health and inclusive workplaces.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 17th Oct 2025

Data Analytics

mecwacare trials InteliCare tech to enhance aged care safety

mecwacare begins a three-month trial of InteliCare's sensor and analytics technology to enhance safety and wellbeing at its Prahran aged care centre.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Wed, 27th Aug 2025

Enterprise Resource Planning

HCF & PALO IT launch app with 86% productivity boost using AI

HCF and PALO IT's AI-driven Active Locals app boosts productivity by 86%, connecting Australians for health and wellbeing in just four months' development.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Tue, 22nd Jul 2025

Unified Communications

Optus launches free Escape Bags to support domestic abuse victims

Optus teams with charity Escabags to provide free Escape Bags, including SIM cards, across Australia for domestic abuse victims seeking safety and support.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Wed, 28th May 2025

Mental Health

Yodel expands Retail Trust partnership for staff wellbeing

Parcel carrier Yodel has expanded its partnership with the Retail Trust, enhancing wellbeing support and launching new initiatives for its staff in 2025.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Tue, 22nd Apr 2025

Data Protection

Prolific aims to establish industry standards for human data use in AI

Prolific introduces a first-of-its-kind Participant Wellbeing report, advocating for ethical human data use in AI and academic research, following controversies over AI tasker exploitation.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 9th Apr 2024

Partner Programmes

Zensory partners Flux to bolster clinician's well-being support

The partnership offers members discounted access to the app, accelerating innovation and making the platform an inclusive go-to community for clinicians.

By Gaurav Sharma • 3 min read • Fri, 13th Oct 2023