How we help
How can easyHR help you?
In a fast moving and competitive world, EasyHR gives you access to the expertise and professional support you need to shape your business structure and roles for success.
We provide insights into areas such as HR strategy, HR policies, business structure, team and business performance, managing performance of team members, and business processes to ensure that data driven and commercially focussed HR decisions can be made.
Our team has an impressive combination of experience covering human resources, performance frameworks, employment relations and employment law that provides a unique skillset to help you in your business.
Create a safer workplace with a drugs and alcohol policy
Drugs and alcohol-related issues in your workplace can impact employee performance and negatively affect the bottom line. Anyone working under the influence of drugs or alcohol also puts your staff, the public, and your business at risk. In fact, under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, being impaired or affected by drugs and alcohol in the workplace is considered a hazard.
Our expertise
Employment Relations
Managing teams can be challenging and sometimes things just go wrong. Your business will have ultimately set out to create a positive work environment with happy, loyal and engaged employees… but inevitably issues can arise, including performance and misconduct. Employee issues can have a negative effect on your business’s performance, the performance of your people, and the bottom line. We can help you manage these employment relationship problems by providing you with practical, tailored advice, support and documentation for your situation.
Business Restructures
Whether you need to consolidate your team as a result of a merger or acquisition of a new business, reorganise your workforce due to rapid growth, or rationalise your workforce to downsize, we can help make the restructure process easier and stress-free. With our expertise in employment relations and running consultation processes, we can provide consultation and support to organise rapidly growing teams, or reorganise your teams due to new strategies and/or downsizing.
Change Management
Getting the right people in the right roles to meet the needs of the business is essential and sometimes this means you need to structure your team in a different way. We can help make this transition as seamless and stress-free as possible by assisting with a review of your current organisation structure and providing advice, the right documents and the processes you will need to deal with during any restructure or redundancy process.
Workforce Optimisation
As an organisation, your most valuable asset is your people. We work with organisations to help them better understand the economic value of it’s human resources and how they can invest in this area to continually improve their team’s capability and performance. With our blend of expertise in human resources, business transformation, and operational management we can help you fine tune your workforce to get the maximum performance from your team.
HR Policies and Procedures
Get everyone on the same page and help your people understand what is expected of them with clear policies and procedure documents. EasyHR can review your current policies, procedures and employment agreements, recommend any changes, and help you develop and implement any that are missing. We will support you through the process of introducing any new or amended documentation, including communication, training and follow up with the team.
Performance Management
Integrated Performance Management Systems designed for your business to help you motivate your people and measure their success.
Performance Management Frameworks
Are you looking for a consistent way to motivate your people and measure their performance? Get top performance from your people and increase the productivity of your business with an integrated performance management system.
Introducing a performance management framework, and developing systems to provide clarity on performance expectations, behavioural expectations, and standards helps your team know exactly what is expected of them, how they are tracking, and what skills they need to develop to improve their performance.
We work with our clients to create a culture within their business where their team feels motivated, engaged and enthused; and promotes success.
Our team of experienced HR consultants can help you with all of your performance management requirements, including performance management processes and feedback.
Disciplinary Support
One of the more challenging areas for managers is the area of dealing with poor performance and disciplinary matters.
In addition to these being very challenging matters that may need to be addressed, there is the added complexity of the procedural requirements that employers need to meet.
At EasyHR we are able to provide export support to assist you through these preparing for these conversations while also meeting your obligations from a process perspective.
Employee Experience
Maximise your employees’ potential, develop flexible working arrangements, and enhance the Employee Experience within your business.
Flexible Working
Flexible working is a growing area of focus and concern for both managers and employees. Recent events have provided a transformational change in the approach to flexible working for many organisations. Many organisations are seeking to understand what the medium and long term impacts will be on their businesses.
At EasyHR we have an in-depth knowledge of, and experience in, flexible working arrangements. We have undertaken our own primary research on finding mutually effective flexible working arrangements and our team has the experience and expertise to help you find the optimal, mutually beneficial, flexible working arrangements for your business.
Training, Development & Coaching
Help your people strengthen their skills so that they can reach their full potential. We can assist you by identifying gaps and recommending training and development courses to meet your people’s needs. This can be done through in-house courses, external training and coaching. We can also assist with coaching sessions in areas such as dealing with performance issues, managing a difficult employee or dealing with absenteeism.
Succession & Talent Management
It’s a fact of life, and business, that eventually someone will resign, retire, be dismissed or get sick. Unplanned leave or a sudden loss of an experienced team member can be extremely stressful and disruptive to business operations.
Succession planning helps you to identify and develop your future leaders, at all levels. With a pool of trained and developed employees ready to step into critical roles when needed, you can sleep better at night knowing you are prepared for the future and can prevent disruptions to business operations.
Talent management goes hand in hand with succession planning. Part of having future leaders ready to step in requires knowing who has potential. Talent management helps your business identify talented employees, provide professional and personal development, and prepare them for future higher-level roles and broader responsibilities.
Drug and Alcohol
Establish a healthy, drug and alcohol risk-free workplace through the development and introduction of a Drug and Alcohol Policy and Process.
Our people
Simon Hughes
Managing Director
Simon is a highly experienced HR executive with experience across multiple industries, with experience in some of New Zealand’s iconic companies.
Simon has alternated between executive HR and management roles, having developed extensive expertise in the areas of Employment Relations, Organisational Performance, Operations Management and Business Transformation. He also has a strong track record in enterprise wide transformation initiatives; including organisational design, mergers and acquisitions and industry-wide restructures and new site establishment, both in New Zealand and offshore.
Simon is passionate about developing and guiding leaders and organisations to achieve their potential. His blend of experience enables him to take a holistic approach to human resources.
Simon holds a Masters of Management (Human Resource Management) where he specialised in organisational behaviour and employment relations, with his research focussed on the use of mutually beneficial workplace flexibility to assist in developing inclusive organisational cultures.
Josie McDonald
Legal Super Star
Josie brings focus and clarity around the complex legal requirements that surround organisational change and day-to-day human resource matters. Josie applies her legal and HR experience to ensure that organisation restructures are legally robust and also meet the organisation’s objectives.
Qualifying as a solicitor in 2004, Josie practiced resource management and employment law in New Zealand before a stint in England saw her assist in healthcare / pharmaceutical law. After returning to New Zealand, Josie moved into Human Resources and has amassed a wealth of generalist HR experience with one of New Zealand’s largest retailers and as a consultant to SMEs.
Josie holds a Bachelor’s degree in law (1st class honours), with a double major in law and psychology (LLB (Hons)).