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Being a pilot may be an exciting career choice but working conditions aren’t always what they’re cracked up to be.
The third Francis report on how to build a safe NHS has been published, this time focusing on the problem of how staff can raise their concerns about patient care without fear of victimisation or whistleblowing…
The email address as we know it was born when Ray Tomlinson introduced the “@” sign in 1977, since which email has continually grown in popularity as a communication tool for work and pleasure – until…
Stress is the physical and emotional response we all experience when faced with demanding situations. Our stress can arise from within when we fear we’re unable to meet our own high expectations. Or it…
Health and social workers often choose their profession because they want to help people. But seeing trauma and suffering on a regular basis can have a deep impact on these workers. “Compassion fatigue…
This year saw the 43rd anniversary of email. Compared to a human working life, email has after more than four decades on the job now reached retirement age. Is it time for email to step aside to allow…
Mental health disorders are the greatest contributor to the burden of disability and the third largest contributor to the burden of disease after all cancers and all cardio-vascular diseases. But unlike…
Rest “is for wimps” – or so many would have us believe. In a world where “time is money” and there “aren’t enough hours in the day”, hard-working people are sleeping less and working more. This in itself…
The term “workaholism” has been around since the 1971 publication of Wayne Oates’ book Confessions of a Workaholic. But, despite increasing research into the idea, there is still no single concept of this…
The norm of permanent full-time terms of employment is under serious challenge. In Australia today more than one-third of employed people work on more variable terms – in particular as casuals (19%), independent…
Information overload has become an everyday experience for anyone who works with computers, owns a smartphone or waits at a bus stop with minute-by-minute updates about arrival times. And this information…
Almost half of Australian workers worry about their work and its future, a survey has found. Professor Peter Gahan and a…
Almost half the nurses with a chronic illness had to take time off work in the previous 12 months because of their condition…
In times of financial uncertainty and crisis, high stress reactions lead to traders becoming more risk averse, which drives pessimism and further falls in finance, according to a new study. This is because…
Repetitive strain injury, or RSI, is a term which was developed to describe an epidemic of work-related arm and hand pain reported in Australia in the 1980s. While work-related arm and hand pain was and…
When your staff bicker and compete, your initial response should be to remind them they’re part of the same team and encourage them to be friendly, right? Not necessarily; we’re now realising that a level…
Research has shown that the benefits of a holiday tend to last only two to four weeks. After that, you’re left just as burned out as you were before your holiday.
Common mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety disorders, are the second leading cause of disability in Australia and affect around 20% of the working age population at any one moment…
Australians are busy at work. We report very high levels of intensive working compared to other industrialised countries. And while it’s difficult to fully disconnect from work as we head home for the…
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Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
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Professor of Information and Knowledge Management, Loughborough University
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in wellbeing at work, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor for Responsible Business, Middlesex University
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, BMRI & Disciplne of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
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Post-doctoral Researcher, Griffith University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Associate Professor, Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor, Public Health, University of Sydney
