How much time and energy do people spend rating, reviewing and answering surveys?
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Companies may benefit when customers create content, provide feedback and do busywork once done by paid employees, but what about the customers themselves – all of us?
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Policymakers can get more for their money when planing incentives for mothers to work.
Employees are not working at work and working at home.
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Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend’s holiday snaps on Facebook: that’s workplace cyberloafing.
HILDA data shows we are less likely to think that children are negatively impacted by a mother returning to work.
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A snapshot of what HILDA survey results have to say about families, working mums and childcare.
The fact is that romance will kindle at work, but there are things employers and employees can and should do to manage these situations.
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Faced with the reality that romance will kindle at work, here are some things employers and employees can do to manage these situations.
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Why is work making us miserable?
In a country consistently rated as one of the world’s most liveable, we’ve somehow developed a deadly disregard toward our own welfare.
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All the awareness campaigns have had little effect on the ‘garden variety’ mental illness that’s causing most of the disability and death.
Having children can drastically change women’s economic and financial status.
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The economic costs of having children are more often shouldered by women, so mothers tend to accumulate less capital over time.
Without loyalty, employees don’t go the extra mile that’s needed to make a business competitive.
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Breach of a psychological contract in the workplace can irreparably damage relationships and produce a number of undesirable outcomes.
A lot to juggle.
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A new £5m scheme to help women back to work after having children is welcome, but it’s a drop in the ocean.
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Having a job plays an important role in our overall happiness – yet research also shows most of us are unhappy while we’re at work.
Is there equality in parenting?
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The recent women’s marches were a reminder that equality in parenting has a long way to go.
That exhausting extra mile.
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Doing well at work can often just lead to getting more work to do.
Time scarcity acts as a barrier to good health, even if you have knowledge.
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Healthy Australians slide into extreme inactivity and poor dietary choices over a just a few years of feeling time poor and rushed in their daily lives.
Six hours in Stockholm.
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Sweden’s switch to a six-hour working day is doing it the world of good.
Even though work hours have been shortened, people increasingly want more time with their family.
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Employees in countries with shorter working hours report more work-family conflict – what’s going on?
Unions campaigned on Sunday penalty rates during the federal election.
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Are penalty rates no longer relevant in the retail industry — and do they cost jobs? Recent research compared two neighbouring states where one raised rates to the other’s level to find the answer.
Today’s ‘office’ for many is anywhere with a reliable internet connection.
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If you could work from anywhere, where and how might you live?
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In the age of the smartphone, it’s often hard to switch off after work. Here’s how employment law can help.
Research shows when there are three women on a board, as opposed to one, they are seen as individuals rather than the “female voice”.
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Australia’s largest companies are happy to tick gender reporting boxes, but when it comes to pay equity they are largely silent.