This Month
The top six business trends for 2025
Here are six themes we expect to make news in 2025, from professional services to crypto and artificial intelligence across offices, boardrooms and suburbs.
- John Davidson, James Eyers, Edmund Tadros, Sally Patten, Euan Black and Nick Lenaghan
October 2024
AI can do only 5pc of jobs, says MIT economist who fears crash
Daron Acemoglu doesn’t see how artificial intelligence lives up to all the hype. “You’re not going to get an economic revolution,” he says.
- Jeran Wittenstein
August 2024
- Opinion
- Digital Life
Apple Vision Pro means the future of work is upon us
The headset lets you do your work in virtual reality. It works surprisingly well, but ideally, you will have the neck strength of a rugby forward.
- John Davidson
June 2024
- Opinion
- AI
Key workers left as invisible bystanders to the AI revolution
A hype-driven, tech-led approach to AI adoption will harm workers, disappoint investors and damage the economy, we must listen and learn from workers at the coalface.
- Nicholas Davis
January 2024
- Analysis
- Tech Observed
White-collar jobs tumble, but shares soar as investors back AI future
Australian staff are likely to make up some of the 8000 jobs software giant SAP says will be affected by an AI-driven global restructure, as its shares hit a record.
- Paul Smith
10 long reads for the weekend
Welcome to the weekend. To start off your day, we’ve curated 10 great reads to enjoy.
The top seven business trends for 2024
Here are the big themes we expect to make news across the corporate world in 2024 – in fashion, the workplace, media and professional services.
January 2023
AI will give office workers more time to ‘create, dream and innovate’
The rapid emergence of generative AI like ChatGPT is being touted as a threat to white-collar work, but early adopters are using it to change their jobs, and even start new companies.
- Paul Smith
Rinehart sends in robots to run Roy Hill
Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill is retraining its truckies to fill new roles as it aims to become the world’s biggest autonomous mine.
- Brad Thompson
October 2022
- Opinion
- Tech Observed
How tech leaders will change the way we work
Atlassian looked a bit “olde worlde” when it admitted to paying remote staff less outside of NSW and Victoria, but in reality it is an example of industry figuring new norms on the fly.
- Paul Smith
Working from home was more fruitful before the pandemic
Research suggests that productivity is boosted when people work from home voluntarily, but not so much when they are forced to do so.
- Euan Black
June 2022
- Exclusive
- Workplace
Inside Cotton On’s secret HQ
For the first time in nearly a decade, Cotton On lifts the lid on its New York-style headquarters, where staff can get subsidised childcare, spa treatments, and free fitness classes.
- Natasha Boddy
- Exclusive
- Working from home
As flexible work grows, so does unpaid overtime
New research warns that the Fair Work system is failing to keep up with the increase in flexible work.
- Natasha Boddy
- Exclusive
- Working from home
How working from home has saved the average Australian $10,000
It has made people happier, healthier and wealthier, as they saved $216 a week while they cut spending on petrol, commuting, food and entertainment.
- Natasha Boddy
March 2022
The jobs that will pay the highest salaries in 2040
Most of the professions people do today will be obsolete in two decades, so how can you guide your children to a successful career?
- Marianne Power
GroupM seeks to improve advertising for staff, clients and the planet
WPP’s media investment arm has three tenets it is focusing on: what’s the next era, what does better mean and who are the people that we’re talking about.
- Miranda Ward
February 2022
Say hello again to the office, fingers crossed
Managers are hanging up welcome balloons and dusting off monitors with a sense of confidence.
- Emma Goldberg
- Exclusive
- Leadership lessons
Lessons from Zuckerberg, Benioff and Mayer for tech’s new star
In just two days Bret Taylor rose from relative obscurity to become one of the most powerful individuals in tech, but the Salesforce co-CEO and Twitter chair says he still has lots to do.
- Paul Smith
January 2022
No more working for jerks!
For almost two years, couches have been cubicles. Colleagues are instant message avatars. And people are reconsidering how much they should have to put up with from a boss.
- Emma Goldberg
November 2021
Return-to-office bankers shun suits for chinos (and brown shoes)
Women in the City of London also no longer feeling compelled to squeeze into uncomfortable high heels to try to project an air of professionalism and power.
- Updated
- Ryan Hesketh