Australians’ sense of job insecurity is now as bad as it was in COVID, when unemployment hit 6.4%. Yet there are steps that can help turn fear into action.
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America’s fusion of limited labor protections and aggressive AI adoption could create the perfect storm for widespread job insecurity.
Women’s Day is used to draw attention to the issues women still face in South Africa.
Stuff cuts are just the most visible aspect of critical problems within the modern university, as a new survey of academic workers reveals.
There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
Turns out, job insecurity doesn’t really improve employee performance. What it does do is cause staff to check out and create a potentially unsafe environment.
The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated many opportunities for those who were already financially disadvantaged.
The number of people on zero-hours contracts has increased during the pandemic, but they don’t seem to figure in the chancellor’s recovery plans.
Service workers are some of the most at risk of both the coronavirus and financial woes.
Academics report feeling unhappy and isolated in their current work culture.
It can be tough at the top for football managers.
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Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Research Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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