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Why hit the beach on holiday when you can use your annual leave to be ill at home instead?
Tilting toilets are the latest suggestion to limit time spent on the loo at work.
Government legislation followed numerous campaigns in the 19th century for Saturday afternoons off.
University of Canberra VC Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss this week in politics, and talk about what to expect in the last parliamentary sitting fortnight, which starts this Monday.
In his second "vision statement" Albanese says he wants to pursue his “productivity project”, and paints himself as a fiscal conservative well removed from Bill Shorten's tax and spend approach.
Labor productivity doesn't matter as much as emissions productivity. Workers aren't a particularly finite resource.
A big surplus will come. It should be saved for something important, not simply spent.
Transforming our societies to stop climate change offers us the chance to make our lives better.
Germany's rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don't widely embrace innovation.
Small businesses fail to recognise the business benefits and importance of prioritise staff mental health and well-being.
Workers with long commutes are more likely to become sick. They also receive less net income (after deducting travel costs) and less leisure time.
The global evidence from more than 300 studies on the economic impact of unionisation shows unions do not, overall, reduce productivity.
Boosting productivity isn't enough, no matter how much you do it.
Top tips to improve your email use based on academic research into email best practice, productivity and stress.
In the midst of the information technology revolution, Australia's productivity growth has been slowing. It ought to have been the other way around.
Wanting to change a person’s autistic behaviours is like attempting to correct left-handedness or sexual preference. The modern workplace should see strength in difference.
The internet has always been just about to deliver an enormous spurt of economic growth or productivity growth A new meta-analysis of 59 econometric studies finds it is yet to do so.
There are early indicators that London's fortunes could be shifting.
Managers work tirelessly to modernise offices, innovate and cut costs, but what really boosts employee performance? The answer is the scientific method: design, test, and measure.
Top contributors
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Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Professor of Management + Associate dean Engagement, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Academic Director, Murdoch University
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Academic Director, Executive MBA Programs, Melbourne Business School
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Acting Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
