Uncategorised A husband and wife team will share the CEO role at Bakers Delight Bakers Delight is a business built on little decisions, where a simple choice about hot cross bun flavours can be make or break.
News & Views Is it true that job adverts push women to opt out? Men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the hiring criteria, while women will only do so if they get to 100% (or at least somewhere close to it).
News & Views In praise of leaders who take a stand on social issues Qantas boss Alan Joyce had a lemon meringue pie smashed in his face while addressing a crowd of more than 500 people at a breakfast in Perth earlier this week.
Entrepreneurs Meet Eventbrite Chief Julia Hartz, who’s running a billion-dollar company Eventbrite chief executive Julia Hartz is scrolling through the guest list for an event she’s created for her 20-year high school reunion using her company’s app, giving a commentary on who has bought tickets.
Business Stop working quite so hard and follow these 3 steps to make yourself visible Putting the extra yards in at work doesn’t always translate to instant rewards and recognition.
Life These are the real challenges of returning to work after parental leave As an employment lawyer I’ve heard countless stories from both employers and employees about how hard it is to return to work post parental leave.
Entrepreneurs How a pre-Tinder dating app inspired this entrepreneur to get more women into tech Christie Whitehill’s pre-Tinder dating app was once well on its way to success: She’d raised capital, partnered with major media brands and thought she had everything ready to go to change the world of dating.
Uncategorised A newspaper for kids is worth defending When I told the seven-year-old daughter of a friend that there’s an Australian newspaper that’s just for kids, her eyes lit up.
News & Views EnergyAustralia Board goes 50% female with two new appointments The board of EnergyAustralia is now gender balanced, following the appointments of Marina Go and Rebecca Dee-Bradbury as non-executive directors.
Business Microsoft employees can now access 20 weeks paid parental leave from day one Microsoft has significantly enhanced its family benefits for employees, announcing it will now offer primary carers twenty weeks paid parental leave at full pay, and six weeks at full pay to secondary carers.
Entrepreneurs Should small businesses be required to have 40% female staff to land government contracts? The issue of gender quotas for Australian businesses has again hit the headlines with a suggestion from the Human Rights Commission that the federal government use its procurement processes to become a “model industry” when it comes to improving representations of women in the workforce.
Tech I hire the most qualified people for my tech business, 50% happen to be female It’s not about hiring women, it’s about hiring RIGHT, and that requires you to open your ears, writes Appscore Co-founder and Managing Director Alex Louey.
