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Mathan Allington

Mathan Allington is Head of Marketing at Compono, where he writes about hiring, culture, capability and the people-insight side of HR that most tools ignore. He turns behavioural science and workforce data into decisions HR teams can actually defend, and has spent his career building demand for B2B software across Australia and beyond.

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From cost centre to command centre: how HR leaders are rewriting their own story

Somewhere in the middle of Matt McFarlane's interview, he said something that made everyone pause. "We already are strategic, we're just doing a really bad job of marketing it."

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Completion rates vs capability: why training numbers lie

Completion rates measure how many people finished a course. Capability measures whether those people can actually perform the task in a real-world...

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What causes employee turnover and how to prevent it

Employee turnover is most often caused by five things: the relationship with the direct manager, a role that does not match how someone naturally...

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How to measure and maximise your HR investment ROI

HR investment ROI is the net financial gain from your people initiatives divided by their total cost, then expressed as a percentage. Calculating it...

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Unlocking potential with modern ANZ HR technology

ANZ HR technology is software built for Australian and New Zealand employers that goes past payroll and record-keeping to give leaders workforce...

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HR tech trends 2026: the future of workforce intelligence

The defining HR tech trends of 2026 are workforce intelligence, predictive personality mapping in team design, multi-dimensional hiring that scores...

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How to conduct a skills gap analysis for your team

A skills gap analysis is a structured comparison between the skills your organisation has today and the skills it will need to hit its objectives...

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How to fix the hidden costs of incomplete HR tech

Incomplete HR tech costs you in three ways: fragmented data that hides what is really happening in your teams, manual workarounds that drain HR time,...

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How to choose the best employee engagement software Australia

Employee engagement software measures how connected people feel to their work and helps you act on it. For Australian mid-sized organisations that...

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