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Opinion
Workplace
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.
- by David Alexander
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‘Let us see the audits’: Kmart faces legal battle over alleged links to Uyghur forced labour
Australia’s most beloved department store has been served with a court challenge to provide documentation on whether it has examined links to factories using forced labour in Xinjiang.
- by Jessica Yun
Analysis
Workplace
The cost of the commute to work adds up
Getting into the office each day is becoming increasingly expensive as workers who avoid the trek count their savings.
- by Nina Hendy
Liberals, companies tread lightly over Allan’s work-from-home plan
Opposition Leader Brad Battin said the state government’s announcement of a plan to make working from home a legal right lacked detail.
- by Chris Zappone and Ashleigh McMillan
The damaging impact of ‘fake positivity’
It isn’t healthy for anyone to avoid realistic emotions and paint everything with the “positivity brush”.
- by Amy Jacobson
The move that has killed off Friday night drinks
For countless generations, workers celebrated the end of the week by heading to the local watering hole.
- by Tim Duggan
Is there such a thing as having too much fun at work?
Sometimes, what’s fun for one person is not fun at all for someone else.
- by Jonathan Rivett
Hollywood A-listers help turn a company scandal on its head
The decision by obscure data-operations firm Astronomer to hire Hollywood celebrities to turn calamity into a positive appears to have worked brilliantly.
- by Alisha Haridasani Gupta
Astronomer HR chief resigns one week after being caught on Coldplay ‘kiss cam’
The $1.5 billion software company has now confirmed both executives wrapped up in the cuddle seen around the world are no longer employed.
- by Bronte Gossling
Opinion
Work therapy
My company hired a dud, despite my warnings. Should I have said more?
You did everything right according to the corporate textbook, but despite all of this, the panel clearly made the wrong decision.
- by Jonathan Rivett
Opinion
Jobs
Why older workers can be ‘too qualified’ to get a new job
The higher you climb up the corporate ladder, complete with larger salaries and expectations, the fewer jobs there are.
- by Tim Duggan