New Org Chart for a New Year
New Org Chart for a New Year Stop staring at the spreadsheet or tables in your HRIS system trying to visualise your organisation and use software specifically designed for the task. As you ring in the New Year, why not resolve to greet it with the sort of workplace visualisation [...]
Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter
Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter The topics of diversity and equity are at center stage of the corporate world right now. The conversation has been simmering for decades but came to a noticeable boiling point in recent years with the “Black Lives Matter” movement in the U.S., mirrored in [...]
7 Goals Of Succession Planning
7 Goals Of Succession Planning Succession planning is not just about establishing paths for promotion, it’s about matching the right person for every job in a company. To be successful an organisation must ensure that employees are recruited and developed to fill key roles within a company before they become [...]
OfficeWork Software Joins CSA
OfficeWork Software Joins Cloud Security Alliance Developers of premium workforce visualization and planning software introduces its secure, cloud-based org chart solution to the CSA Novato CA, [December 16, 2020] – OfficeWork Software today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining [...]
Team Based Planning
Team Based Planning Optimising the structure and planning the deployment of employees across an organisation is a major responsibility of any human resources department. With management teams increasingly dispersed, and having to work remote from one another, OfficeWork Software has developed a collaboration module to assist teams plan for the [...]
Using Icons in Org Charts
Using Icons in Org Charts Organisational charts offer a visual snapshot of a company’s structure from a high level and have been around since the mid-1800s. Today, sophisticated org chart software allows users to drill down into the various subsections of a chart for a more detailed analysis. In [...]
Span of Control is Important
Why Span of Control is Important What is span of control? Simply put, span of control refers to the number of employees under a manager’s direct control (i.e. a manager with five direct reports has a span of control of five). When examining organisational structure, span of control is [...]
Organisational Structure
3 Basic Types of Organizational Structure As companies grow the reporting structure changes. We’ve identified the three most common systems of hierarchy of the companies we work with. We’ve listed them below with a brief explanation: 1. Functional A functional structure is simply one that divides a company by [...]
Origin of the Org Chart
Origin of the Organization Chart as a Tool of Business Management Joe Kolinger, Founder and CTO of OfficeWork Software, explores how through necessity the first organizational charts came to be and how they shaped business management today. Organizational charts today have a mixed reputation. While companies need them they are [...]
Salary Benchmarking
With job wages rising by 2.4% in Australia in 2018, compensation is a variable the HR professional must be attentive to in order to retain the best talent. For most companies, compensation is the major cost item and so demands careful consideration. Especially in today’s healthy job seeker market, [...]
