September 2020
Microsoft chief: the world is learning to work again
Digital efficiency, staff isolation and cyber security are among the biggest challenges for businesses in the COVID-19 era, a panel including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella heard at the Australian Financial Review's Reshaping Australia Dialogue.
- Paul Smith
Watch: Reimagining business after COVID-19
Change-agent CEOs Satya Nadella, Ross McEwan, Andy Penn and Audrey Zibelman discuss how the pandemic is forcing leaders to reimagine the future of their organisations.
- Alana Piper
- Exclusive
- Cloud
Telstra to push tech ambitions with Microsoft partnership
Telstra has signed a partnership with tech giant Microsoft, which will see it using its technology internally and developing new products based on AI and the cloud.
- Paul Smith
Australian business adopts a decade of tech change in a year
A new research report by AlphaBeta has found that technology helped save 3 million jobs during the lockdowns.
- Natasha Gillezeau
Watch: has COVID-19 changed our approach to healthcare forever?
Medical futurist Dr Bertalan Mesko joins experts from across Australia's health sector to discuss the legacies of the current crisis on our healthcare system.
- Alana Piper
How the coronavirus is dragging healthcare into the 21st century
There's a silver lining to COVID-19. It's accelerating the use of technology and driving cultural change in medicine.
- Jill Margo
Medibank CEO urges Victoria to ease reopening targets
'We have about 3000 people here in Victoria and I’m genuinely getting concerned ... [about] their state of health,' Medibank CEO Craig Drummond says.
- Yolanda Redrup
'Techno activist' hacks his medical data to live longer
While he doesn’t expect people to 'become a geek' like him, Dr Bertalan Mesko suggests they embrace 'techno activism' in looking after their health.
- Jill Margo
- Analysis
- Education
Students need a rich curriculum and teachers need more support
Radical change may not be needed in education but we have to seriously tweak the system we have.
- Mark Eggleton
Watch: Now is the time to reinvent our education system
MIT's Sanjay Sarma joins experts from across Australia's education sector to discuss the opportunity to modernise our educational approaches post COVID.
- Alana Piper
- Opinion
- The AFR View
What the virus is teaching us about education
The Australian Financial Review’s Reshaping Australia Dialogue showed how the COVID-19 crisis provides an opportunity to truly make education a source of progress for all.
- The AFR View
Pandemic 'reveals poor standards in vocational education'
Training for people in aged care is poor and militates against people thinking the sector is worthy of a career.
- Robert Bolton
Lectures should stay online forever: MIT professor
But exciting student curiosity and providing real-time coaching should return to in-person learning after the pandemic, adds MIT's Sanjay Sarma.
- Updated
- Natasha Gillezeau
Schools doing well in reading and maths 'deserve more autonomy'
The secretary of the NSW department of education says literacy and numeracy targets are being set and schools that need help are getting it.
- Robert Bolton
August 2020
Telstra boss wants more flexibility on penalty rates
As the government brokers with unions on post-COVID industrial relations reform, Telstra's CEO wants to let workers to do later hours without penalty rates.
- Finbar O'Mallon
Telstra CEO hasn't been to the office for six months
Telstra chief executive Andy Penn has admitted he hasn't set foot in the office for six months, running Australia's biggest telco entirely from his home study.
- James Fernyhough
No soup bans in BHP's office of the future
In the new world of work, BHP staff won't have to worry about smuggling in contraband soup if they choose to return to the office.
- Natasha Boddy
Why Bridget Loudon says the office isn't dead yet
Expert360 founder Bridget Loudon says the office isn't dead and it will instead become a resource for teams purpose-built for collaboration and team building.
- Natasha Boddy
Watch: Has COVID-19 changed the workplace forever?
Does COVID-19 spell the end of the industrial-era workplace? Join Expert 360's Bridget Loudon and panel of experts including Telstra CEO Andy Penn as we debate the future of work after a world-changing pandemic.
- Alana Piper
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Burning platform must fuel reform ambition
As Australia stands on a burning platform of change, the national interest demands the political system be more ambitious in pursuing economic reform in the COVID-19 era.
- The AFR View