Automation has replaced workers in mining and industry, including the steelworks at Port Kembla, but most Australians are more worried about jobs going overseas.
Dean Lewins/AAP
Most Australian workers are fairly relaxed about their own job security, but they do worry about the risks of poor management and outsourcing to cheaper labour.
Some students don’t have any meaningful contact with the workplace until their 20s. That’s too late.
from www.shutterstock.com
Schools can’t equip students with all the skills they need once they start work, especially STEM and digital skills. Here’s one way they can better prepare their students for life after school.
She makes it look so easy.
Shutterstock.
Go beyond the corporate jargon to really understand the freedom and challenges that come with being a digital nomad.
More than half of all U.S. truck drivers exceed the federal limit of 60 hours per week.
5m3photos/shutterstock.com
Low pay pushes drivers to work extremely long hours, causing more crashes and more traffic deaths.
Shutterstock
As the workforce ages, it’s important to celebrate age diversity. We challenge five myths about older workers.
About 12.7 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line in 2016.
StanislauV/shutterstock.com
A White House Council concluded that the war on poverty is “largely over.” But, while poverty among seniors has declined, poverty among adults and children as changed little over the last 40 years.
We like to move it move it.
Shutterstock
Standing in meetings offers the opportunity to sit less and move more.
shutterstock.com
To gain mastery over our inboxes we have to deal with the root causes and not just the symptoms that frequently flare up.
Tax rules baked into superannuation favour those on low and high incomes.
Shutterstock
Everyone is better off under the superannuation guarantee levy, but low and high income earners see a greater benefit than those in the middle.
shutterstock.com
Entrepreneurs must grapple with uncertainty and work the longest hours. Yet they are happier and often healthier than people in other jobs.
There are considerable differences in pay, employment levels, and the types of activities that men and women perform in the workplace.
shutterstock
Automation could transform our working world. Here’s what we can do to ensure it is a more gender equal one.
In the short-run, the targeted migration program boosts workers in the target region.
Bread for the World/Flickr
Even if policies could be found to bind new immigrants to regional areas, workers’ movements would continue to weaken the long-run impact on regional populations and economies.
Things don’t always go according to plan.
shutterstock.com
More than half of vets consider a change of job, despite considerable financial, emotional and intellectual investment.
What is it about AI that unnerves us? Alan Finkel suspects it’s a combination of things.
Wes Mountain
Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s proposal for regulating AI is a trustmark. Its working title is ‘the Turing Certificate’, in honour of Alan Turing.
Rio Tinto executive Kellie Parker said that in traditionally male dominated blue collar industries like mining, the types of jobs on offer have changed due to automation.
www.shutterstock.com
Women have less to fear than men, and probably more to benefit, from the advent of robots.
Disappearing from a high street near you.
www.shutterstock.com
A long read on the decimation of British jobcentres – and why it puts the rollout of Universal Credit at risk.
shutterstock.com
Work dominates many of our lives, often in ways that are detrimental to our health and well-being.
Organized labour held demonstrations in front of Tim Hortons franchises in Ontario in January 2018 to protest the actions some Tim Hortons franchises have taken in response to an increase in the province’s minimum wage.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
May Day is a time to reflect on labour struggles of the past and demands for the future, and Canada’s move toward increasing the minimum wage is not enough. Labour politics is about who counts
Agriculture, forestry and fishing, and arts and recreation services are much more precarious for their employees.
KATE AUSBURN/AAP
Despite relatively stable and low levels of unemployment, workers are increasingly concerned that their jobs are at risk.
Taking the fall.
shutterstock.com
More women are making it to the boardroom but are often promoted to an untenable and precarious leadership position.