Richard Kennedy: Randstand Country Director on the results of this year's annual Employer Survey

Air New Zealand has again flown high in rankings of the best place to work.  

The national carrier has scored first again in the Randstad annual Employer survey. 

DOC, the New Zealand Customs Service, and consulting firms PWC and WSP rounded out the top five.

Randstad Country Director Richard Kennedy says they've worked extremely hard in terms of making it a great place to work, providing things like a strong work-life balance, an attractive salary and benefits, good training, and also equity. 

He says that equity has come to the forefront in this year’s research, with 50% of people saying they wouldn’t work for an organisation unless their values aligned, and they had equity at the forefront of their proposition. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This morning, New Zealand's most Attractive employer has been revealed.
It's the second year in a row that they've won.
So they'll make the company happy. And guess what it is?
Can I have a drum roll? In New Zealand. It's
the eighth time they've wrought up, second year in a row.
Running out through the findings is Rand Stands National Director
Richard Kennedy, who've done the survey? Hello, Richard good.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
More Now Andrew?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
What makes the air New Zealand so good?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
What makes that air New Zealand's so good? Well, firstly,
congratulations to their New Zealand for being recognized as New
Zealand's most attractive place to work once again this year,
recognized for their financial health, solid reputation and attractive salary
and benefit. So I guess the wind reinforces their position
as an iconic brand and it's remained resilient through really

(00:48):
challenging times.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well you can say that again because most people are
complaining about how high they air fears are and what's
happening with a lot of the things when it comes
to being a traveler. But I guess to work these good.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Absolutely, that's good. Yeah, they've worked extremely hard in terms
of making it a great place to work. You know,
I'm providing strong work life balance, attractive salary and benefits,
and good training, but also equity as well. And I
think equity is something which has come to the four
in this year's research. Equity, diversity, belonging, inclusion is something

(01:19):
which is prevalent throughout the New Zealand society and community
at this moment in time. And I think around fifty
percent of the people that were surveyed in this research
said that they wouldn't work for an organization unless they
were values aligned and had equity at the forefront of
their proposition.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, one of the interesting things I found about your
surveyors that forty percent of New Zealanders have not received
inflation compensation from the current employer. And while you can
understand that because that could actually drive employers to the wall,
at the same time, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
The thing, yeah, it is effectively, it is affecting people.
You know, the market at this moment in time with
the current economic turbulen which is impacting the fluidity of
the job market. I think the employers really need to
look at their value proposition and their brand proposition and
implement strong work life balance, attractive salary benefits as much

(02:07):
as they can as possible, good training so offset. You know,
if they are unable to increase salaries alongside inflation, look
at their training. And also, you know, job security, which
is something which obviously everybody's looking for at this moment
in time.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Because set for to Kennedy from Randstands, congratulations in New
Zealand and other companies like PwC. They're up and whopping
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