Why your business needs social media

A robust social media presence is vital for any modern business. The contemporary consumer has migrated from official sites and physical stores onto the public forums, and companies have to follow.

How business tech helps corporations and harms employees

While the importance of business tech in the modern world can’t be denied, it’s just as important to recognize the effects of technology on employees.

Welcome to the Metaverse?

Microsoft and Facebook are betting big on encouraging workers to collaborate in virtual worlds, but clunky, expensive headsets, childish avatars, management snooping and annoying interfaces mean the metaverse may never happen.

Is your side hustle worth it?

The return of inflation and the rise of the gig economy means that many Australians are taking a second job to make ends meet, but how much are they really benefitting?

Anytime, any place, any good?

While remote work can help restore a better work-life balance for many people, we shouldn’t let work intrude into ever more areas of our lives.

The pitfalls of passion

Young people are always urged to ‘follow their passion’ but this can lead them into dead end careers, while employers want ‘passionate’ employees so they can pay them less while asking them to work more.

Bottles hurled into the sea

Margaret Atwood once said that “publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea” What makes some bottles sink without trace, while others come safe to land and are read by a few – or countless millions.

Playing at work

Simulated scenarios and role play can help employees and managers build the communication and negotiation skills required for difficult conversations.

Let retirees work without docking their pension

Encouraging more people of pension age would go a long way to solving Australia’s labour and skills shortage.

What’s hot and what’s not in the jobs market

Victoria University has created a model to predict which jobs will be in demand over the next two years in the run-up to this week’s jobs summit.

3 ways to fix the skills shortage

We hear the term “skills shortages” all the time in media and policy debates about jobs and the economy. But what skills do we need, and more importantly, how do we get them?

Overseas recruitment won’t solve the aged care worker crisis

Importing more aged care workers from abroad won’t be enough to ease the staffing crisis in Australia’s residential care homes.