Working from home? You may spend less time on career development

Working from home? You may spend less time on career development

Workers in the office spend 25 per cent more time in career-development activities than their remote counterparts,according to new data from a team of economists who have analysed working from home since the pandemic began.

  • byMatthew Boyle

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Fathers who share childcare face work discrimination and career setbacks
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Fathers who share childcare face work discrimination and career setbacks

Working fathers want to do more caregiving but feel boxed in by gender stereotypes,with new research showing they believe they are treated unfairly at work.

  • byWendy Tuohy
A four-day week with the right to disconnect? Yes,that works a treat

A four-day week with the right to disconnect? Yes,that works a treat

We’re donating on average a day a week of unpaid overtime to our employers. But don’t worry,our parliamentarians have a plan to save us from ourselves.

  • byJenna Price
How Luca found the ideal way to juggle work and family

How Luca found the ideal way to juggle work and family

Since well before he had children,Luca Pomare began planning ways to work from home to be a caregiver. Among young men,he’s not an outlier.

  • byJordan Baker
Quiet quitting,the gender pay gap:Was 2022 a tipping point for workers?

Quiet quitting,the gender pay gap:Was 2022 a tipping point for workers?

What did we want from work over the past 12 months? Overwhelmingly,greater flexibility and fulfillment.

  • byLauren Ironmonger
Quiet quitters,boomerang employees:The trends that shaped workplaces in 2022

Quiet quitters,boomerang employees:The trends that shaped workplaces in 2022

The battle over workplace culture ushered in a new vocabulary this year,as workers flexed their might in the tightest labour market in years and employers declared the end of the pandemic.

  • byTaylor Telford
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Work-work-life balance? Record number hold down more than one job

Work-work-life balance? Record number hold down more than one job

The number of workers with multiple jobs rose to nearly 900,000 over the 12 months to September,according to the ABS,as the cost-of-living crisis bites.

  • byRachel Clun andJacob Gamble
Want a four-day work week? Show this research to your boss

Want a four-day work week? Show this research to your boss

The first large-scale study of a four-day workweek has come to a startling close:Not one of the 33 participating companies is returning to a standard five-day schedule.

  • byArianne Cohen
People aren’t searching for their dream job,they just want to work at home

People aren’t searching for their dream job,they just want to work at home

Australians are less concerned about what job they do than where they do it,as a strong jobs market forces businesses to fight for talent.

  • byRachel Clun
Labor puts flexible hours in the spotlight with new workplace laws

Labor puts flexible hours in the spotlight with new workplace laws

The government will introduce a bill that would allow employees who are turned down for flexible hours the right to appeal to the industrial umpire.

  • byJames Massola
Atlassian targets tree-changers in flexible working recruitment drive

Atlassian targets tree-changers in flexible working recruitment drive

Co-founder Scott Farquhar is targeting flexible workers outside Sydney and Melbourne to fill 1000 new tech jobs in the next 12 months.

  • byAngus Thomson