The way jobs are structured affects employee mental health, an analysis of more than 18,000 workers shows.
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Learning how to produce polished prose can greatly enhance your value on the job.
New digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades, with a mixed record on the economy and individuals’ daily lives. AI’s effect will likely be just as unpredictable.
When people are involved in planning for climate transition that takes account of their other daily concerns, such as housing and jobs, they become more positive about transformative change.
Why companies should be worried about diversity in ‘top jobs’ and what they can do to make this happen.
Instead of a guaranteed fixed income, a universal job guarantee policy provides jobs — and wages — to people who aren’t able to find work on their own.
Casual or short-term contracts, a lack of professional development, little hope of career progression: a survey of academic working conditions sounds a warning.
Our interviews with ex-automotive workers reveal how economic change interrupts lives, casting people into new worlds of precarious work and long, indefinite journeys in search of security.
Workers who experience job insecurity over several consecutive years become less emotionally stable, less agreeable and less conscientious.
Several presidential hopefuls have offered proposals to close the racial wealth gap, from baby bonds to reparations. A simulation suggests policies short of direct aid to blacks won’t do the trick.
Policy needs to focus on making the teaching profession stable and more appealing. South Africa must ensure its locally trained teachers have more reason to stay in the country.
The rise of robots and new technology threatens to take over many jobs, but just how many is still up for debate.
It takes more than cocktails and table football to make a happy workforce. Respect and job security are vital.
Psychologists rank job insecurity as one of the most stressful things about work – new research uncovers why.
While students enjoy learning with robots, research finds that teachers are more sceptical – worrying about their job security and technical capabilities of robots.
Auto manufacturing workers will face significant problems in finding new jobs after the closure of the Ford and Holden plants, a new survey has found.
Who’s more likely to help you find a job, your close friends or the casual acquaintance you see at the gym? An examination of Facebook friends offers some clues.
Those closest to you might not be able to get you back on your feet.
Indonesia should tackle the job and income insecurities that plague its large young workforce, to help prevent them being lured into joining violent extremist groups.
There doesn’t need to be sub-standard jobs in order for there to be enough jobs to go around.
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography, University of Wollongong
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PhD Candidate in Social Robotics, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Economics, Keele University
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Adjunct Professor, QUT Business School, and Director of Corporate Transition, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology, Loughborough University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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PhD student, University of Washington
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in human-centred computing & human-computer interaction, Western Sydney University
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