The average NSW mortgage has climbed more than $200,000 in two years. But it may have come at a cost to the nation’s long-term living standards.
New research into mid-sized companies show many are not investing in new technology,costing them and their workers hundreds of hours a week in lost sales.
With all the commute time freed up,what is to stop emplpyers from simply asking you to work longer from home? Blurring the lines between work and the rest of life does not have to benefit workers in the end.
Procrastination is a risk factor for poor mental and physical health,so it’s important to try to overcome it.
Today on Please Explain,senior economics writer Jessica Irvine joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss how working from home has impacted productivity.
There’s been no shortage of talk about all the things the Coalition is doing to improve our productivity. What’s missing are signs that all this professed effort is doing much good.
Our Treasurer forecasts sunshine for the Australian economy. Our business leaders expect rain clouds.
Business lobby groups use the productivity slump for blame-shifting and rent-seeking.
The central bank to the world’s central banks says all countries will need to embrace reform to cover the cost of fighting the COVID pandemic.
In 2015,Joe Hockey used his intergenerational report to warn of the dangers of debt and deficits. The next report will accept they are the cost of COVID.
A fall in productivity growth over the past decade has cost every Australian $11,500 in lost income,eating into our standard of living.