Dairy farm workplaces are being affected by technological change, changing employee expectations and increased competition for staff. To ensure they're attracting and retaining talented staff in 2030, we need to prepare for change.
This project will:
- Develop solutions to make dairy farming more attractive and productive.
- Identify future solutions for dairy workplace design.
- Determine the productivity potential and features of future workplaces.
How the dairy workplace is evolving
Focusing on the challenges
In February 2019 nine South Island farmers put their hands up to be part of a series of innovation workshops tackling current dairy workplace challenges.
As part of the design process, this farmer co-design team visited Auckland businesses to understand the pressures faced by non-agricultural workplaces, and their responses.
Six ideas generated by the team were then selected for development and on-farm testing:
These concepts are being piloted and assessed with some members of the farmer team this season. Successful ideas will be rolled out to interested farmers across the country in the next season.
Video
Innovation and International perspectives on future workplaces
Melissa Clark-Reynolds. Futurist, Beef & Lamb board member, bee keeper looks at international trends that are exciting and some which might influence workplaces, and asks how can farmer business people embrace future thinking and be ready for change.
Get involved
Are you interested in being involved in DairyNZ's exciting people management research project? We’ve created a community of interest group which you could be part of.
Why participate?
- Innovate and develop leading workplace practices that solve dairy farming workplace issues
- Generate and bounce ideas with people management experts and likeminded farmers
- Gain exposure to the latest workplace practices
Interested in the project?
There are a variety of other ways you can be involved, or we can keep you in the loop with updates from the project, let us know at peopleteam@dairynz.co.nz and we’ll keep you engaged!