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Are you a ‘high performer’? How companies work that out is changing
The pressure to do more with less in a tough economy has sharpened leaders’ focus on high performance and how to achieve it.
The tide is turning against WFH. Office property will be a winner
Like it or not, the return-to-workplace push is gaining momentum. It’s one of two big factors setting the stage for a revival in commercial real estate.
GenAI helps engineers cut response time from weeks to minutes
Worley is using the technology to reduce the time it takes to draft responses to complex customer queries by parsing the firm’s extensive technical database.
‘I’ve had it’: JPMorgan’s Dimon rails against Gen Z
In an expletive-laden outburst, the CEO of America’s largest bank said that if “zoomers” did not want to come to the office for work, they should quit.
How these accountants are using AI to take more time off work
Grant Thornton employees are saving an average of almost 3.5 hours a week using generative AI, enabling more of them to take an extra day off each fortnight.
February
Why Australia’s Fair Work Act changes hurt housing
The new rules are sinking jobs and businesses, and mean more expensive housing and an explosion in innovation that could create the very real risk of no building industry
Chevron to slash 20pc of global work force in cost-cutting push
The US oil giant’s plans could affect as many as 9000 employees, as it targets as much as $4.8 billion of structural cost reductions by 2026.
The baffling (and little-known) WFH statistic
Businesses are tightening hybrid work rules, but working-from-home levels have so far barely budged.
January
Driving innovation
Join the most influential voices shaping the future of Australia’s workforce to unpack on the critical issues reshaping how we work, lead, and collaborate.
February 2024
Five tips to manage your Gen Z workers
Knowing what these young employees want is one thing. Actually managing them – and trying to retain them – is quite another.
IR changes an 'unambiguous assault' on gig work: Chamber of Commerce boss
Chief executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Andrew McKellar says the latest changes to Australia's industrial regulations rules are an attack on gig work.
No scrutiny of Labor’s workplace laws
Labor did not consult its top productivity adviser over its latest workplace laws, including the right to disconnect, a change industry says ‘shows common sense has left the room’.
Workforce summit exposes IR inflexibility mismatch
The government calls its new industrial relations laws ‘closing loopholes’ when it is really about closing off flexibility.
How bosses are using generative AI to work smarter, better
Companies are still divided on whether automation and new AI will guarantee productivity and efficiency gains.
We’re all guessing on WFH, but firms may soon need to pick a side
From Canva to JPMorgan, leaders are still feeling their way when it comes to working from home. But employees may be about to force the issue.
Aussie bosses falling behind in tech race
Local business leaders are lagging rich countries in adopting technologies such as artificial intelligence and data analytics, contributing to the economy’s productivity slowdown, Productivity Commission chairwoman Danielle Wood says.
How JPMorgan polices return to office mandates
JPMorgan CEO Robert Bedwell explains how the company is policing its return to the office mandates and how compliance affects performance reviews.
Four-day week v office mandate: One size does not fit all
Medibank’s Kylie Bishop says its workers on a four-day-a-week trial are less stressed, but JPMorgan says it needs its merchant bankers in the office every day.
Right to disconnect ‘a real challenge’ for global firms: Woodside
With offices around the world, Woodside fears the new labour rules could be stifling, and HR boss Julie Fallon says same job, same pay laws sap productivity.
Woodside executive: same work, same pay adds paperwork, not productivity
Julie Fallon, executive vice president corporate services at Woodside Energy, says same work, same pay legislation adds bureaucracy, not to productivity.
Gender pay gap shrinks at fastest rate in 20 years
The “encouraging” change is largely thanks to fathers spending more time looking after their children and doing housework, according to the latest HILDA survey.
Dutton pledges to cut off employees’ right to disconnect
The opposition will present voters with a “targeted package” repealing key parts of Labor’s pro-union industrial relations regime, shadow ministers say.
A bad week for Australian productivity and prosperity
Michele Bullock may be a glass-half-full optimist, but Labor’s latest moves will make economic recovery that much harder.
Businesses’ guide to the new IR laws
Human resources and workplace lawyers explain how to manage the swath of workplace changes about to hit business.
How to manage staff who work from home
Managing staff who work partly, or mostly, at home is no mean feat. Senior business leaders reveal how they do it.