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Five tips for greater employee satisfaction and productivity.
Changes to working life created by COVID-19 give employers an opportunity to embrace a caregiver-friendly work culture, supporting the millions of Canadians who juggle employment and informal caring.
Australia’s living standards have remained remarkably stable compared to those of other countries. Losing access to China wouldn’t change that much.
A conservative estimate of the productivity gains from working from home suggests they’re bigger than all of the reforms of the 1990s combined.
New research explores how using cannabis at different times of the day influenced employee behaviour.
We asked 1,400 managers to rate working from home. Some 8.4% said their teams were less productive, 57% said it was the same, and 34% said it was higher.
Working from home during lockdown reminded many of us of the benefits of office life. With a bit of imagination we could have the best of both worlds.
Trials show a four-day week really works. With economies desperate for recovery, now could be the perfect time to encourage it.
In these troubled economic times, skills and technology are key to lifting the UK out of the productivity doldrums.
The more businesses encourage their employees to sleep well, the better their employees perform.
Why hit the beach on holiday when you can use your annual leave to be ill at home instead?
Tilting toilets are the latest suggestion to limit time spent on the loo at work.
Government legislation followed numerous campaigns in the 19th century for Saturday afternoons off.
University of Canberra VC Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss this week in politics, and talk about what to expect in the last parliamentary sitting fortnight, which starts this Monday.
In his second “vision statement” Albanese says he wants to pursue his “productivity project”, and paints himself as a fiscal conservative well removed from Bill Shorten’s tax and spend approach.
Labor productivity doesn’t matter as much as emissions productivity. Workers aren’t a particularly finite resource.
A big surplus will come. It should be saved for something important, not simply spent.
Transforming our societies to stop climate change offers us the chance to make our lives better.
Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Chief Executive, Grattan Institute
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Academic Director, Murdoch University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Strategy, Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University