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A man finds shade in London. The British Met Office says temperatures won’t peak until next week.

How bosses are catching out work-from-home fakers

Since the pandemic upended how we work, there has been a steep increase in playing virtual workplace hooky.

  • Dan Cave

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Employees covered under EBAs are lucky enough to get a guaranteed annual wage increase. Just don’t call it a ‘pay rise’.

Another great Australian dream goes by the wayside

We’re still a long, long way from enjoying the 15-hour working week predicted in the 1930s.

  • Victoria Devine
AI tools have made it easier to apply for jobs at scale.

Think AI can write your job application now? Think again

Job applications written by AI have flooded the market with generic CVs, making it harder for employers to identify the right talent for the job.

  • Nina Hendy
Go west is The Age’s special series on Melbourne’s western suburbs.

Go west

In this special series, The Age focuses on Melbourne’s western suburbs to see how life could improve in Australia’s fastest-growing region.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn.

Bring back the humans: CBA’s embarrassing AI jobs bungle a salutary lesson 

It is clearly a bad look for the bank that talked up embracing the new technology to so publicly mishandle this particular aspect of its implementation.

  • Elizabeth Knight

Being made redundant can have a serious effect on your health

Dozens of colleagues were made redundant at the same time. Is that just normal now?

  • Jonathan Rivett
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Dylan D’Emanuele, an apprentice electrician from Taylors Lakes is happy to have a job in Brunswick after travelling for 150 kilometres to an earlier job.

Young tradies like Dylan and western suburbs professionals have this challenge in common

In a special series on Melbourne’s west, The Age explores how to attract high-skilled jobs, get more youths into work and improve transport links.

  • Adam Carey and Sophie Aubrey
Marelen Yap at V/Line’s Rockbank station, which heaves with city-bound commuters at peak-hour.

Marelen wastes thousands of hours commuting to work. She wants two things to change

In a new series, The Age focuses on Melbourne’s western suburbs, where high-skilled jobs are scarce and transport links often poor, to see how life could improve in Australia’s fastest-growing region.

  • Sophie Aubrey and Adam Carey
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Work-from-home is for employers only to decide

Businesses need the final say about where their employees work – whether it’s on-site, at home or a mix of both.

  • David Alexander
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Welcome to Donald Trump’s dystopian world

There’s a quote in George Orwell’s 1984 that seems appropriate after Trump’s shocking move to fire the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after she produced numbers he didn’t like.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz