This Month
Safety investigation launched at UTS over KPMG’s job slashing plan
It’s unusual for the workplace safety watchdog to investigate white-collar workplaces, but staff anger is at boiling point.
Which emoji you should use to say ‘thank you’
Gen Z workers are ascendant, but research shows they find workplace communication a struggle. Are emojis the future of office comms?
This is how CEOs are using AI to get ahead
It’s faster, cheaper and listens without judgement, but is artificial intelligence enough to shape smarter leaders?
One of 11 kids, KPMG executive says she ‘learnt to negotiate’
Dorothy Hisgrove, managing partner for people and inclusion, is the winner of the Professional services category of the Women in Leadership Awards.
The brutal truth about being fired these days
Sacking people is sometimes necessary. But dismissing people by email or phone is still distressingly common and needs to stop.
Why lawyers are overworked and (relatively) underpaid
Lawyers are employed to work 38 hours a week, but that is a fantasy at most of Australia’s top-tier law firms.
Rest Super staff surveys suggest risk problems, poor staff morale
Nearly half the $93 billion superannuation fund’s investment governance team was considering quitting within two years, confidential data shows.
May
‘Nowhere to hide’: Why more CEOs are fronting videos
Executives are increasingly filming themselves for social media as a way to talk directly to staff, customers and shareholders.
S--- happens: Salesforce Tower suffers sewage leak
Building manager Lendlease must have been secretly relieved people don’t go to the office on Fridays when the foyer filled with sewage.
Why it pays to use AI on the sly at work
Research shows staff are likely to be downgraded for owning up to using AI, highlighting the need for office guidelines to encourage workers to use it openly.
Whistleblower raises alarm over high distinctions being awarded in ANU course
More than 90pc of the grades in the university’s cybernetics course were at the highest possible level, which the whistleblower claimed was “highly unusual”.
Top-tier firms ‘exploiting young lawyers over long hours’
The legal profession is renowned for its damagingly long hours, but new laws are putting “reasonable additional hours” clauses under new scrutiny.
What’s Richard White’s title at WiseTech, anyway?
The returned executive chairman should dispense with politeness and call himself something more reflective of his station.
Law firm fined for forcing junior to work 24-hour days
The lawyer worked 225 hours in just three weeks and was even forced to watch an ice hockey movie at 1am so she could understand her boss’s philosophical position.
Cultural resilience key to dealing with crisis
Massive digital disruptions have driven home the need for training and systems to ensure businesses – and all their staff – can instantly respond to outages.
Rest Super plays into its leakers’ hands
A ‘confidential email’ telling staff to stop leaking to the media naturally resulted in more of that very activity.
Farewell, Alex: conceited, boomer (cartoon) banker
After 38 years, the comic strip is bowing out. Both sharply satirical and acutely anthropological, it got right inside the pinstriped world of high finance.
Super Retail executives dragged into alleged CEO affair stoush
One senior manager, according to new claims filed with the Federal Court, witnessed an intimate moment at an offsite work meeting three years ago.
April
‘Kill them’: Why Jamie Dimon is right about meetings
The JPMorgan boss struck a nerve. Plenty of workers share his frustration with endless gatherings and dreary discussion that could be covered in an email.
Work from home or bring home to work? New trend brings ‘day of relief’
More companies are offering staff the option to bring their children into the office during the school holidays, saving them money and, in some cases, their sanity.