Our 30 most attractive companies
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Why you’ll pay for getting that promotion
‘GET out there and have a go’, Hockey says. Well, there are two little words you probably missed in his Budget speech last night that should make you think twice.
This is what happens when you cross Marissa
SHE has been called the ‘Greek Goddess’ and hailed as Yahoo!’s saviour. But you don’t want to get on Marissa Mayer’s bad side.
What I learned from using a standing desk
MAKING the change to a standing desk could save or at least, extend, your life. Here’s what you need to know before you make the switch.
‘Why do you hate farmers?’
FARMERS have criticised a TV report suggesting the industry was rife with the exploitation of migrant workers subjected to slave-like conditions.
How can you avoid ‘slave’ food?
SHOPPING has never been so confusing after shocking details of farm workers being treated like ‘slaves’ in Australia were revealed. So what can you do?
Aussie supermarkets’ shame
AN EXPLOSIVE investigation into Australia’s fresh food supply has revealed widespread corruption, abuse, and slave-like conditions on farms and factories.
‘What I learned by working at Google’
TOM Uglow has the job many of us can only dream about. But what really goes on behind the colourful doors of one of the tech behemoth?
The dream solution to childcare
IMAGINE the easiest possible solution to childcare. There’s no travel, it’s tax deductible and it doesn’t impact your working hours. For some people this is a reality.
What this woman did for her famous client
THE disgraced lawyer for Cameron Douglas, convicted drug trafficker and son of Michael Douglas, has revealed the twisted details of their relationship.
Seven tips to make your day easier
MANY office workers name this one thing as the bane of their existence. Here are seven tips that will save time and make your day easier.
‘I smoked a pipe in the toilet’
HIGH pressure work environments and short deadlines have meant that some people are using deadly drugs to boost their productivity at work.
Sex is the key to a bigger pay packet
SEX is the key to a bigger pay check, but not in the way you might think.
Erase your memory: work’s changing
IMAGINE working from home or in touchdown offices in airports and hotels and in three bursts over 24 hours — it’s the near future, a new report states.
How your boss is spying on you
THE answer is yes – your boss can see everything you’re doing. Every email you’ve sent, every website you’ve been on and every search term you’ve typed.
Australia’s best places to work
HALF of all Australians say they would want to work at this company, which has just been named the nation’s most attractive employer.
Most insane workplace horror stories
YOUR job might be a drag at times, but at least it isn’t this bad. Three long-suffering assistants to high-powered executives have revealed their most insane workplace horror stories.
Is this idea genius or lunacy?
AN AUSTRALIAN company has kicked off a major experiment, and its 900 employees won’t get a choice. It sounds like something too good to be true.
How quitting coffee can make you rich
IF Australians weaned back their takeaway coffee addiction, many of us could have fatter savings accounts and be debt-free.
FIFO tragedy: ‘They hate themselves and the world’
FROM the outside, FIFO workers’ money and long breaks look tempting. But in desolate mining camps, men are increasingly seeing suicide as the way out.
Woman texts boss, calling him a ‘d***’
A WOMAN who was fired after sending a text message to her boss describing him as “a complete dick” has lost her application for unfair dismissal.
Rotten truth at the core of Apple
BEN Farrell scored what should have been his dream job — a gig at Apple. But it was nothing like he expected, and he wants you to know why.
The world’s most dangerous job
WITH scarves raised to block dust from their eyes, 45,000 people risk amputation and death daily. These are the incredible photos of their lives.
Meet the teenage paparazzo
WHILE most kids his age struggle to get out of bed in the morning, Sydney schoolkid Jayden Seyfarth is up chasing celebs — and he’s making a killing.
‘Things male co-workers actually said’
IF YOU don’t believe women are treated differently to men in the workplace, Cate Burlington has news for you. Men have really said these things to her.
This woman has a radical plan
WHAT’S one way that could solve the growing wage gap between men and women? CEO Ellen Pao thinks she has the answer in banning salary negotiations.
Random employee sits down with Obama
TALK about a lucky day. A low-level employee got a last minute call-up to go to a meeting and ended up across the table from President Obama.
‘You’ve lost your job … LOL’
IT was one of the cruellest April Fool’s Day office pranks around but the distressed victims have been told it’s their fault they didn’t see the funny side.
The words we all need to stop using
YOU know the ones — the words that mark us out as robots from another planet. Let’s all agree to a collective exorcism now.
How to beat the mountain of emails in your inbox
AFTER a nice long weekend, it’s time to make a fresh start. Here’s how to stop stressing at work, even when you have 1000 emails waiting for your attention.
Man sacked for being ‘too nice’
SOMETIMES, nice guys do finish last. This man was fired for going above and beyond what was expected of him. But management wasn’t happy.
Brutally bashed for doing his job
A COUNCIL parking inspector was brutally bashed in broad daylight by a thug driving a green Commodore. Now police are on the hunt.
Bus driver is a ‘complete idiot’
A NEW Zealand bus driver has been caught on camera and labelled a “complete idiot” by his boss. Watch what happened.
Watch two minutes of awful puns
“DID you hear about that new broom that came out? It’s sweeping the nation.” Watch this office worker unleash two minutes of awesomely bad puns.
The woman standing up for millions of Aussies
JESSICA May used to be an executive with 17 staff and a billion-dollar program. Then everything changed. Now she’s standing up for millions of Aussies.
Restaurant owes 11 workers $3.43 million
A RESTAURANT has been ordered to pay 11 workers $3.43 million after a judge found the owner and managers had violated the workers’ rights.
The secret to productivity
DO YOU feel paralysed by procrastination? Constantly distracted? Surrounded by too many post-it notes and to-do lists? Try these tips. They work.
Worker tells of coffee horror
CONTENT WARNING: You won’t believe what this woman found in her coffee at work. It will change how you look at your cuppa forever.
‘There’s something in my head trying to eat it’
THEY are not legally old enough to even buy a packet of cigarettes, yet workers as young as 12 are being slowly poisoned by nicotine. They don’t even smoke.
Confessions of a brothel buster
HE’S IN his 60s, divorced, and gets paid to have sex at massage parlours. Here’s the outrageous part – you might be footing the bill.
Single women face cashless retirement
AUSTRALIAN women without a partner or husband come retirement time will face tough financial challenges, experts warn.
Changes to 457 visas announced
THE federal government has announced a raft of changes to the 457 skilled migrant workers program.
‘What I wish I knew at 21’
WHEN you’re 21, you’re inexperienced and prone to mistakes. Here are lessons we should’ve learnt and some you’re never too old to pick up.
Welcome to the elite $100K-a-month club
$100K in the first month. $1.5 million in a brief career. These are the Aussies shunning full-time jobs to make a handsome living from online poker — and here is how they do it.
Victorian couple worked for nothing
A COUPLE who worked in Indian restaurants in country Victoria were paid no wages for a year, despite being promised $1600 a week.
Abbott’s ‘patronising’ St Pat’s message
IT’S Tony Abbott as you haven’t seen him in a really long time — wearing a tie that’s not blue. And offending a group of people which isn’t as unusual.
The dirty secret behind your clothes
GROPING, sexual harassment and pressure to have abortions. These are the dirty secrets sewn into some of our favourite big brand clothing. And we are literally wearing the blame.
‘He asked me to take photos of him naked’
SYDNEY woman Alexandra Tselios, 32, bravely reveals her horror at being propositioned for sex by her male boss, and what she learnt by speaking up.
‘I’m a little bit scared I’ll lose my job’
ASHLEIGH Witt’s only crime was to be a young woman. Now she’s worried she might lose her job for exposing the dark secret haunting her profession.
‘I don’t accept male Indian students’
A UNIVERSITY professor has come under fire for allegedly refusing an internship to a male Indian student due to the “rape problem in India”.
Country working itself to death
NEXT time you leave the office late, spare a thought for these workers who do 80-hour weeks, all year round. They’re literally working themselves to death.
What’s driving us crazy at work
BRISBANE employees have opened up about their biggest sources of stress in the workplace.
‘Sorry to all the mums I worked with’
KATHARINE Zaleski once decided not to partner with a woman because of “the endless photos of her small children” on her desk. But all that changed when she became a mother.
The man who answers the ungoogleable
RANDALL Munroe whiles away his days finding answers to absurd, ungoogleable questions and, in the process, has become nerd royalty.
The secret hidden in Clinton’s portrait
IT’S had pride of place in a national gallery for years, now the artist behind a famous portrait of Bill Clinton reveals the secret image hidden in his painting.
Virtual reality game simulates work
IN THE perfectly automated future when robots control everything, humans will turn to virtual reality to remember what it is ‘to job’.
How Apple really treats workers
THE tech giant says a program aired by the ABC last night was “misleading”, but shocking footage of its workers pushed to breaking point tells a different story.
This number will improve your day
WE ALL know the one thing that’s ruining your work day is long meetings. Here’s a simple trick that will make your life 100 per cent easier.
The easiest way to make more money
IT’S one of the scariest conversations we’ll ever have, so much so that many of us never do it. But there is a foolproof way to ask for a pay rise.
‘Sorry for our incompetent waitress’
THIS Chinese restaurant has decided to shut down rather than let “incompetent” staff continue to hurt its reputation. Read the epic public shaming here.
‘My abuser dressed me in nappies’
A DOMESTIC worker has spoken out about the beatings, starvation and twisted games she suffered at the hands of an abusive housewife.
Why are FIFO workers killing themselves?
AS MINING companies struggle after the boom, nine fly-in-fly-out workers have taken their own lives in 12 months.
How to deal with the office jerk
THERE’S one in every workplace — a person who just puts everyone off-side. So how do you deal with them?
Boss sells car and watch for staff
IS THIS the best boss ever? He sold his Corvette and Rolex watch and donated the $150,000 in proceeds back to staff.
‘I fired five people to avoid paperwork’
THIS woman hated doing paperwork so much, she sacked all of her employees. But does she have a point?
Unemployment changes your personality
HAVE you been unemployed for more than a year? This is how your personality is changing.
The work prank gone tragically wrong
IT STARTED off innocently enough — a prank between colleagues that has been pulled a million times before. So how did someone end up dead?
One thing that’s ruining your work day
THERE’S one simple, everyday thing that is killing our days at work. No, it’s not that passive-aggressive colleague or even an unreasonable boss.
Is sitting is the new cancer?
STAND up, take notice. Sitting is really bad for you. Everyone from Tim Cook to Donald Rumsfeld is standing up — and it’s changing their lives.
‘I’m really excited’: Freya’s next big move
THE student who leaked details of Frances Abbott’s scholarship is making a bold move into federal politics.
‘Good luck with your no job life’
IN what is probably the shortest amount of time it has taken anyone to get fired, this girl’s tweet got her sacked before she even started.
How zombies will help workplace harmony
THOSE lumbering, undead zombies could be the key to getting along in the workplace. Seriously.
How to avoid poisonous people
WHAT is the difference between a relationship being hard and a relationship just being downright unhealthy?
Sex romp scandal raises huge question
SO, two office workers decide to cavort after hours, and get caught on camera. The whole world knows about it. And still, they don’t get the sack.
The future of work is … mind control?
WHAT will the workplace look like in 2040? Imagine working remotely via hologram, commuting by jetpack, or even controlling your office with your mind.
Office workers implanted with microchips
THE future is now. One office block in Sweden has implanted microchips in the hands of employees, in what could be the beginning of the end for swipe cards.
Thousands raised for super-commuter
MORE than $290,000 has been raised for the dedicated factory worker who has been walking a total of 33 kilometres to work for a decade.
This man walks 33km to work every day
WHAT this man does to get to work will mean you can never complain about your commute ever again. Because his is far worse.
Change is coming for ‘exploited’ Aussies
A WHOLE group of Australians are ‘exploited’ every day for their hard work. But a landmark decision could see that all change.
The creepiest jobs in Australia
WHAT’S the creepiest thing you’ve ever had to do at work? Clean the leftovers out the office fridge? At least you’ve never picked maggots out of a dead body.
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