Business digest: Tauranga s Bayfair Shopping Centre wins in accessibility awards
20 Dec, 2020 10:01 PM
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Bay of Plenty Times
For the fourth year in a row, Bayfair Shopping Centre has been awarded for having the most inclusive business practices in 2019/2020. The shopping centre also took out the New Build-Commercial category 2019/2020 for its development at the Tauranga City Accessibility Awards.
Bayfair Shopping Centre has promoted social responsibility through a strategy to become more accessible by incorporating core values in all its social events and initiatives.
The goal is to raise awareness of accessibility issues within the wider community.
As part of its $115 million development project, the centre took the opportunity to install a fire evacuation visual alert system throughout the centre, mount Braille wayfinding signage across all amenities and update the store directory to include Braille for people with hearing and visual impa
Bay of Plenty companies embrace work from home policies and let staff decide
20 Dec, 2020 08:00 PM
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More companies in the Bay of Plenty have adopted working from home policies post-Covid which allow staff to choose where they will be based. Business leaders believe workplace flexibility was here to stay and the benefits were outweighing any downsides - with less time spent in traffic sited as a major positive.
Trustpower People & Culture general manager Sara Broadhurst said it could have a third less staff in its Tauranga head office on any given day, compared to numbers on the floor before Covid.
Greg Fahey is the last man standing in Matatā residents’ fight against managed retreat. It might not look like much, but it s his and he s damned if he s going to let local councils tell him he can t live there. While one local previously promised war if authorities tried to kick him out, the only war here has been one of attrition. One by one, the owners in the potential path of any debris funnelling down Awatarariki Stream have signed up to Whakatāne District Council’s buyout offer. While the council still calls it voluntary managed retreat, residents say it’s been anything but.
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