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Policymakers can get more for their money when planing incentives for mothers to work.
Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend’s holiday snaps on Facebook: that’s workplace cyberloafing.
A snapshot of what HILDA survey results have to say about families, working mums and childcare.
Faced with the reality that romance will kindle at work, here are some things employers and employees can do to manage these situations.
Why is work making us miserable?
All the awareness campaigns have had little effect on the ‘garden variety’ mental illness that’s causing most of the disability and death.
The economic costs of having children are more often shouldered by women, so mothers tend to accumulate less capital over time.
Breach of a psychological contract in the workplace can irreparably damage relationships and produce a number of undesirable outcomes.
A new £5m scheme to help women back to work after having children is welcome, but it’s a drop in the ocean.
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.
The recent women’s marches were a reminder that equality in parenting has a long way to go.
Doing well at work can often just lead to getting more work to do.
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.
Sweden’s switch to a six-hour working day is doing it the world of good.
Employees in countries with shorter working hours report more work-family conflict – what’s going on?
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.
If you could work from anywhere, where and how might you live?
In the age of the smartphone, it’s often hard to switch off after work. Here’s how employment law can help.
Australia’s largest companies are happy to tick gender reporting boxes, but when it comes to pay equity they are largely silent.
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