News & Views Humour can make you a better workplace leader, if you use it properly – here’s how When used well, humour can increase employees’ job performance and well-being. But intention and context are crucially important,
News & Views Managers are providing hours of emotional support to team members. It’s leading to burnout. Managers are reportedly spending more than five hours a week providing emotional support to their team members going through personal issues.
News & Views The changes we can make right now to make work more ‘parent-friendly’ without Budget announcements While policy changes and budget announcements are crucial for long-term systemic change, workplaces can become more gender equal right now.
Business To close the gender pay gap, we must ‘reimagine’ what senior leaders look like: Mary Wooldridge Mary Wooldridge said organisations must “reimagine” what senior leaders look like, if we are to make progress on closing the gender pay gap.
Business Can you spot a workplace liar? Dr Rebecca Wilcoxson’s research shows it’s harder than you think CQUniversity’s Dr Rebecca Wilcoxson says we’re all better liars than we realise and use the technique pretty much everyday.
Employers 2024 Workplace Culture Trends: What the best employers will do to care for their people in 2024 There are several major trends set to reshape workplaces in 2024. Here’s how employers who care for their people will respond.
News & Views Here’s how I learnt to thrive in the workplace as a young, neurodivergent woman What I have learned is that when I allow myself to fully be myself, I’m actually more confident, more capable, which means I can be more influential.
News & Views The scariest part of Halloween? The workplace lies women still have to tell Unmasking the real horror of women juggling work and family on Halloween. Let’s rewrite this chilling tale of inequality.
News & Views The Top Ten Companies to work for in Australia announced This year’s list of ‘Best Places to Work in Australia’ has just been released, and we look closely at the Top 10 on the list!
Soapbox From heels to sneakers: Why gender-neutral dress codes are the future of work This shift to having a more relaxed dress code in the workplace has a positive impact on our mental health, writes Heidi Dening.
News & Views ‘Replacing the old white boys’ club with the new white girls’ club’: Report shows organisation boards need more cultural diversity Inclusion of culturally diverse and Indigenous Australians is lacking on boards of organisations, despite a gender balance of 40% female.
News & Views The fight for fair flexibility set for new battle There are promising permanent shifts in employers offering flexible work, and signs of a growing divide in who can access such flexibility.