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Innovation not just for inner-city hipsters
A trendy city-centric vision has little meaning in struggling areas.
A trendy city-centric vision has little meaning in struggling areas.
If you have a spare hour each workday, the results of this experiment might surprise you.
New research shows the potential of self-employment for those with disabilities.
Excessive product packaging hurts margins and the environment, and annoys many shoppers.
We need more technology graduates who capable of launching and growing ventures
Do short-break holidays do more harm than good to your productivity?
Working in short bursts has benefits and risks for productivity and workplace flexibility.
What happens when ordering food online or eating out each night becomes the norm for more people?
Charities must ask if the potential damage to their brand and public goodwill is worth the small amount raised.
Some businesses offer staff a virtual smorgasbord every day, but does it really enhance productivity?
Managing staff who are way too senior for their job is becoming a big challenge for many businesses.
Reporting to people much younger, or managing those much older, is beyond many employees.
As more companies encourage workplace flexibility, their safety policies may not be keeping up.
"Out of sight" could mean out of a job for more employees who work in satellite offices.
Too much education upfront and not enough during one's career is a risk to young employees and industry.
Risks of more favourable treatment compared to singles, non-parents.
Companies should question whether entitlements are out of sync with a challenged white-collar employment market – and rorted by staff.
Technology is forcing a rethink of business models and recruitment processes.
It's gone way beyond tradies, restaurants and service enterprises that offer generous "discounts" for cash payment.
Students and street-wise job seekers will always find ways to cheat the job-application system.
Work and personal time has never been so blurred, but entrepreneurship is all or nothing.
Six ways to make industry events more engaging and productive.
Six tips to avoid the soul-destroying process of documents going round and round an organisation for review.
The Lunar New Year was an example of not enough retailers embracing other countries' traditions.
Mergers are needed among second-tier universities so the university sector can rid itself of some dead wood.
Six tips to avoid pretend clients and other time wasters.
The gold watch is long gone but is a simple farewell lunch too much to ask?
Lower back pain a bigger problem for business as an ageing workforce sits for more hours at a computer.
Poor record-keeping and information management still a problem for business.
Governments must prepare for higher numbers of older business owners.
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