The murky world of ESG

Although financial industry groups claim that one-third of all investment assets are already sustainable, new research shows most ESG investing has no meaningful effect on sustainability.

Protecting migrant workers

The federal government has heeded the recommendations by a coalition of 40 organisations including UNSW academics to introduce visa protections for migrant workers.

Dungeons, dragons and the day job

Workplace motivators are fond of equating something that’s fun or challenging to the dreary realities of office drudgery, and hit films based on role playing games are no exception.

Building trust at work

Bob Dylan wrote that if you wanted someone to trust, you should trust yourself but from friends to families, partners to politicians, trust is the fundamental glue that holds together our relationships, not least at work.

The future of Australian wine

China is calling a ceasefire in its economic war against Australia, much to the relief of Australian wine exporters who saw their business shrink when Chinese import duties doubled.

Navigating the great office exodus

Working from home went from rare to ubiquitous during COVID-19, but how have Australians coped with the shift away from the traditional workplace now the pandemic has passed? The annual HILDA survey offers some clues.

Tabi on racial matters: If DEI lacks antiracism, the people it is meant to help, suffer

Inclusive strategies without antiracism are inadequate because some employees in your workplaces will not be safe and feel a sense of belonging that you are trying to achieve.

Roll with the punches

Rapid developments in technology and innovation may threaten the viability of many established jobs and companies, demanding ‘cognitive flexibility’ from employees and employers alike.

Got milk?

Sydneysiders who’ve spent the last couple of years dodging Milkrun bikers and wondered how it could ever make money have their answer. It didn’t.

SVBankrupt

The collapse of California’s Silicon Valley Bank is the second-largest banking failure in US history and the largest failure since the Global Financial Crisis.

Gender targets miss their mark

Gender diversity experts at the University of South Australia are urging governments to rethink their approach to gender targets as new research shows that they do not lead to expected improvements in gender equity for women in leadership.

Welcome to flatland

Big tech firms like Microsoft, Google and Facebook soon ballooned from scrappy start-ups into massive bloated bureaucracies which are vulnerable to the next wave of lean and hungry innovators, and Meta’s embrace of a ‘flat’ company structure may not save it from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive failed bet on the ‘metaverse’.