Today
From coffee importer to barrister: carving new paths to the Bar
The Bar remains behind on key diversity measures, but top commercial chambers are beginning to bring on board readers with different professional backgrounds.
- Maxim Shanahan
Yesterday
How office workers are losing their social skills
Consultants say incidents of inappropriate workplace behaviour are becoming more common as increasing technology use erodes our people skills.
- Euan Black
This Month
Explore how your boss measures up on the gender pay gap
Company-specific gender pay gaps were revealed for the first time earlier this year. Enter your industry and company in our interactive chart below to see how they measure up.
- Michael Read, Hannah Wootton and Daniel Reti
September
NSW Bar backs compulsory anti-harassment training
State bar associations have swung behind the Australian Bar Association’s proposal to mandate “equality and wellbeing” training.
- Maxim Shanahan
The two trends making Gen Z tech grads less ‘job ready’
Employers remain satisfied with the quality of today’s graduates. But they believe two forces are working against them.
- Euan Black
‘We need to talk’: the hidden cost of unclear messages
The “emotional overhead” of trying to decode ambiguous emails is just one piece of problematic fallout from poor communication at work.
- Euan Black
- Opinion
- Audit quality
Accounting body’s plan a ticking time bomb for the profession
Chartered Accountants ANZ’s plan to educate school leavers without a university degree will hurt the sector, say two Deakin University academics.
- Anne Wyatt and Peter Carey
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why work from home might get mugged by a slowing economy
A slowing economy and shift in technological advancements are set to change the battle over the future of work again.
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Joseph Longo
‘I would not recommend ASIC’: scathing assessment by staff
The results of a confidential cultural survey make for embarrassing reading on staff motivation, satisfaction and the regulator’s leadership team.
- Patrick Durkin and Ronald Mizen
More menopause support will get more women into top jobs, leaders say
Leading executive women have welcomed a move by parliament to make workplaces offer better support to staff going through menopause.
- Hannah Wootton
What bosses (and husbands) need to know about menopause
A senate inquiry has unanimously recommended women get the legal right to work flexibly during menopause and pushed for more support for those going through it.
- Hannah Wootton
Tabcorp CEO Gill McLachlan orders staff back to office five days a week
Tabcorp and Amazon have ordered their staff back to the office five days a week in the latest salvo in the work-from-home battle.
- Euan Black and Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Gender equality
When the CEO pipeline is mostly men it’s time to look outside the box
One of the reasons for the dearth of female CEOs is that companies are choosing from a pool that is far too shallow.
- Sally Patten
DEI is no longer just about ethics, it’s about profits, academics say
Australian business schools are providing an increasing amount of diversity components to reflect a growing corporate demand.
- Gus McCubbing
In the wrong job? You’re pushing up inflation
Workers are less likely to say they use many of their skills in their job now than they were before the pandemic, new analysis shows.
- Euan Black
‘Extremely volatile’: CFMEU delegate grabs AFR photographer
A CFMEU member has allegedly manhandled a Nine photographer as union members vote to walk off the job in Sydney next week.
- Gus McCubbing and David Marin-Guzman
Degree-free accountants risk undermining profession, unis warn
A proposal to let school-leavers with no degree become chartered accountants risks tarnishing the profession’s reputation, warn leading accounting professors.
- Euan Black
Telstra Health loses 300 jobs but stays on the block
The telco group is holding off from offloading Telstra Health as chief executive Vicki Brady restructures swathes of the company to boost profits.
- Jenny Wiggins
Out of a job, not ready for golf: the rise of the portfolio career
Today’s public company chief executives and top leaders simply do not last as long in their jobs as they once did, so there are more unemployed high-flyers keen for work.
- Brooke Masters
Accenture denied suppression order amid open justice debate
Justice Scott Goodman criticised the consulting firm’s “all or nothing” stance, following recent criticism of “a culture of secrecy” in litigation.
- Maxim Shanahan