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If you make it to the interview stage but don’t get a job offer, chances are you made one of four common errors.
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A new RGCS study identifies four possible scenarios about work and management that could be combined over the next decade.
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour work week – working three hours a day – within a few generations.
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The idea of reduced working hours was once seen as an essential indicator of progress. It’s time it was again.
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Our obsession with busyness is about managing relationships – not just time.
Deep acting at work could be a protective factor for employees in challenging situations, but it can also take a toll and lead to burnout.
To protect employees from burnout, organizations should recognize which emotions are expected to be managed as a part of the job, and what situations generate emotional labour.
For every £1 men earn per hour, women earn 81.6p.
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How an increased use of technology could widen the gender pay gap in higher education.
Even when women come forward they are often silenced.
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A culture of silence suggests for every headline about sexual harassment, many more cases go unreported.
Few work environments offer greater isolation than Antarctica.
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Isolation at work can be unhealthy. But it can also be a good thing – as this researcher found out when he walked solo from Melbourne to Sydney.
Impostor feelings include fear of failure, fear of success, a sometimes-obsessive need for perfection, and an inability to accept praise.
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Research suggests that 70% of people will experience an illogical sense of being a phoney at work at some point in their careers.
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A psychologist explains how to improve your ability to respond to challenges.
Care work isn’t confined to the home, or care professions such as nursing or childcare, it also happens in professional life – and it’s mostly done by women.
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Once artificial intelligence takes over task-based and calculative jobs, the invisible care work that underpins our offices, marketplaces and institutions could finally become more visible and valued.
Job seekers at a Walmart hiring event. in 2012 in Altadena, California. Hundreds of applicants showed up for 65 positions that were available.
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In April 2017 the IPSP surveyed a representative sample of US adults about what makes a job a good one. Respondents put money and atmosphere first, two very different and complementary criteria.
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Stop telling women they can have it all if they just work hard enough.
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Increased work effort not only predicts poor well-being, it may be bad for your career.
Just stop.
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Non-stop working cultures comes at the expense of the quality of our lives and our health.
Mind the gap.
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The gender pay gap remains stubbornly high in the UK, but the new rules are shaming companies into action.
Automation has replaced workers in mining and industry, including the steelworks at Port Kembla, but most Australians are more worried about jobs going overseas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Low pay pushes drivers to work extremely long hours, causing more crashes and more traffic deaths.