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Employers are increasingly turning to mentoring as a development and retention tool, as technology makes it easier to administer programs and make the right matches, a specialist says.

Atlassian says it has found the optimal number of times it needs to bring together distributed workers to build lasting feelings of connection.

Since applying simplification principles to a time-intensive annual process, the "panic" it once provoked has eased, and employees report feeling "lighter", an HR leader says.

HR leaders who practise being "everyday bold" will be better prepared to tackle the dual challenges of building employee trust and encouraging innovation, a conference heard this week.

After learning that its employees felt ill-equipped to deal with conflict, an organisation has built conversation skills in more than a third of its 4,200-strong workforce, and the results are palpable, its learning experience business partner says.

Employers shouldn't be so afraid of turnover, says renowned culture expert and author, Seth Godin.

An employer is liable for a long-serving employee's psychological injury, after its poor communication about a restructure meant she found out about her demotion by chance.

It's crucial to emulate a face-to-face teamwork experience when designing virtual workflows, academics say.

A lot of performance reviews fail to drive any improvements, and the reasons lie on both sides of the conversation, a coach says.

An always-on feedback channel is driving some key initiatives at an employer of choice, where workers feel confident that what they say will "make a difference", its HR leader says.