Tackling literacy issues in the workplace

The Department of Labour has created a website aimed at helping employers with literacy training in the workplace. The Department of Labour’s new Skills Highway website profiles New Zealand businesses who’ve spent the last few years trying and testing workplace literacy training.

Nearly half the New Zealand workforce has difficulties with reading, maths and communication. It’s highly likely to be affecting your business, and your bottom line, in ways you may not even realise. Research shows about four in every 10 New Zealand employees have difficulties with reading, maths and communication. New Zealand’s poor adult literacy rates have long been considered a serious issue that costs business through accidents and injuries, high wastage, mistakes, missed deadlines and low productivity.