Working life.
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The information about how menopause affects workers should be more diverse.
Despite numerous high-profile cases of workplace bullying in recent years, bullying and harassment remain widespread.
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It’s clear the current workplace health and safety framework isn’t stopping people from getting bullied. It’s time to treat bullying as a public health issue and address the problem more effectively.
A study finds that stereotypes, systemic hurdles, and discriminatory policies and procedures persist more in European society than in Québec.
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A survey on stereotypes and discrimination in the business world reveals major disparities between men and women.
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Post-COVID, employees are looking for work-life flexibility, but this doesn’t just mean working from home. The new New Zealand workplace is still up for negotiation.
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We see a lot about the challenges and limitations associated with autism – but less about the real strengths autistic people bring to the workplace. Here’s how to make workplaces more autism-friendly.
Although well-intended, sometimes employers can unintentionally undermine the agency of refugee employees by victimizing them.
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Managers can play a key role in helping refugee employees thrive in their new workplaces, instead of robbing them of their autonomy.
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As an anthropologist, I have chronicled the digital nomad lifestyle for the past seven years. The reality is far less glamorous than you might imagine
A tourist has makeup done ahead of Day of the Dead on Oct. 30, 2021, in Mexico City.
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Locals usually see tourists as a way to boost the economy. But at a certain point, resentment starts to build.
Microcredentials are short, modular programs or courses that focus on developing skills and competencies to help students enter the labour market quickly.
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Recognizing and accrediting students’ prior learning and competencies is one way universities can tweak business-as-usual approaches.
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Study shows that so-called “socio-cultural attitudes” are not a plausible explanation for the Muslim penalty.
Employees work on manufacturing a car at a Volkswagen plant in Uitenhage, South Africa.
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South Africa should ensure that changes to energy efficient vehicles is done in a way that creates jobs and protects workers.
Will it stand up?
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Many trials are taking place, but they need a reality check.
Money madness: Clive Palmer at the United Australia Party’s campaign launch on the Sunshine Coast in April.
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Four of Labor’s reform pledges are linked to the urgent issue of democratic reform
Healthcare workers faced excessive burnout during the pandemic.
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Burnout is a serious problem that deserves all of our attention. An academic who studies the issue offers some practical tips to deal with the problems associated with burnout.
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We often talk about ‘emotional labour’ as performed by those who take on the emotional workload within families or relationships. But the term has a specific meaning – and that’s not what it is.
Refugees take shelter in front of the UN refugee centre in South Africa.
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Most refugees rarely gain citizenship in host countries and the work that is available to them is informal, irregular and precarious.
Employees and their organisations can gain from union membership, research shows.
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Collective bargaining carried out by unions can ultimately benefit employers, not just employees.
Many seasonal businesses are struggling to find enough workers again this summer.
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Young workers are particularly vulnerable in the workplace because they tend to do short-term work, often lack training and safety education, and may see injury as just “part of the job.”
The ILO decided a safe and healthy work environment should be a fundamental right at its June 2022 conference.
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Making a safe and healthy work environment a human right is only the first step in ensuring governments protect workers
The TV show ‘Severance’ has employees separate their work self from their home self completely.
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The work-life balance is about more than shutting off devices or abstaining from emails and meetings after 6 p.m.