Tesco, Boots and Barclays have joined the growing number of companies trying to force employees back to the office after several years of remote working that began with the pandemic. They’re likely to be in for a battle.
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Humour can make you a better workplace leader, if you use it properly – here’s how
When asked to describe an ideal organisational leader, many people might be inclined to use quite serious adjectives such as solemn, determined or results-oriented.
What will a robot make of your résumé? The bias problem with using AI in job recruitment
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has begun, spreading to almost every facet of people’s professional and personal lives – including job recruitment.
How to thrive at work if your older boss expects hustle culture
Portia from the comedy-drama series The White Lotus is the epitome of Generation Z.
The costs of workplace violence are too high to ignore
Violence and harassment on the job are all too common: More than 1 in 5 workers worldwide have experienced it, according to the International Labor Organization, with women slightly more likely to be affected than men.
More adults are being diagnosed as neurodivergent. Here’s how employers can help in the workplace
There has been a rise in the number of people diagnosed with “neurodivergence” in adulthood over the past decade.
Office gossip isn’t just idle chatter. It’s a valuable – but risky – way to build relationships
Gossip flows through the offices and lunchrooms of our workplaces, seemingly filling idle time. But perhaps, through these ubiquitous and intriguing conversations, we are influencing our workplace relationships more than we realise.
Turning annual performance reviews into ‘humble encounters’ yields dividends for employees and managers
Every year, employees worldwide enter annual performance reviews with mixed feelings.
Is drug testing in the workplace effective or necessary?
Alcohol and other drug use is a major problem in Australian workplaces costing more than A$4 billion a year. Of this, $3.6 billion is due to absenteeism.
How employers can tackle misconceptions about disabled people in the workplace
Disability is a common part of the human experience: the United Nations estimates that 16 per cent of the world’s population is disabled, and a 2019 study from the United States found that over half of American adults aged 18 to 34 have at least one chronic illness.
Hidden in plain sight: Women face subtle forms of discrimination and bias in the workplace
Gender discrimination remains a pervasive issue in the workplace.
This desk is mine! How noisy offices can make us more territorial
From colleagues chatting about their weekends or having intense phone conversations, to email alerts and loud tapping on keyboards, the evidence that open-plan offices take a toll on our wellbeing continues to mount.
Virtual reality has negative side effects – new research shows that can be a problem in the workplace
Some employers are excited about swapping out computer monitors for virtual reality headsets, but the side effects of using VR are not completely understood. In a recent study, my colleagues and I propose 90 factors that could influence VR side effects in the workplace.
Should you be friends with your co-workers? Here’s what the research says
In my teens and twenties, I didn’t think much about how important it was to like the people I worked with.
States are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce
A movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New Hampshire had enacted this kind of legislation, and lawmakers in at least another eight states had introduced similar measures.