Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann unveil a budget outcome as good as balanced on Thursday.
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A big surplus will come. It should be saved for something important, not simply spent.
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Transforming our societies to stop climate change offers us the chance to make our lives better.
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Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Stressed out.
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Small businesses fail to recognise the business benefits and importance of prioritise staff mental health and well-being.
The stress of commuting by car can affect workers’ well-being and productivity.
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Workers with long commutes are more likely to become sick. They also receive less net income (after deducting travel costs) and less leisure time.
The average rate of unionisation in OECD nations fell from 46% to 27% of the workforce between 1980 and 2015.
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The global evidence from more than 300 studies on the economic impact of unionisation shows unions do not, overall, reduce productivity.
It’d be nice if all you needed to do was to produce more. In finance, that hasn’t been enough.
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Boosting productivity isn’t enough, no matter how much you do it.
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Top tips to improve your email use based on academic research into email best practice, productivity and stress.
At least in the movies, Superman is getting less productive. We are scarcely any more productive than we were two years ago, and it is weighing on wages.
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In the midst of the information technology revolution, Australia’s productivity growth has been slowing. It ought to have been the other way around.
It takes all sorts: workplaces can harness as strengths the differences that usually disadvantage people with autism.
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Wanting to change a person’s autistic behaviours is like attempting to correct left-handedness or sexual preference. The modern workplace should see strength in difference.
The internet is everywhere, except in the economic growth figures.
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The internet has always been just about to deliver an enormous spurt of economic growth or productivity growth A new meta-analysis of 59 econometric studies finds it is yet to do so.
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There are early indicators that London’s fortunes could be shifting.
Post-its, iPad or ping-pong?
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Managers work tirelessly to modernise offices, innovate and cut costs, but what really boosts employee performance? The answer is the scientific method: design, test, and measure.
A variety of personal reasons motivate people to run a small business.
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Most owners of small businesses reconcile competing work and life demands in an ad hoc way.
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The prospect of a post-Brexit talent exodus and the ongoing productivity puzzle underline the urgency of developing homegrown talent.
Working together.
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Listening to employee suggestions could give the UK the productivity boost it desperately needs.
The Pomodoro, a humble tomato-shaped kitchen timer, can improve your focus.
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If innovations of our digital age are largely to blame for decreasing attention spans, don’t they also hold possible solutions?
When details started leaking late Wednesday Malcolm Turnbull quickly declared its proposed model had been rejected.
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The government’s plan released by Treasurer Scott Morrison on Thursday, would ensure the fiscal capacity of all states and territories was “at least the equal of NSW or Victoria, whichever is higher”.
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There are competing claims over what the optimal office temperature is. Here’s what the research says.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day …
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You might think you’ve made your day more efficient – but it can actually affect what you accomplish during your unstructured time.