Business
Workplace
Teacher shortage opens gate to country lifestyle
A looming teacher shortage and cheaper education degree fee could spur some students to consider a career in the profession, but experts say better information is needed.
- by Anna Patty
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Opinion
MyCareer
Ignore online temptations and get real about life
The cyber world makes it too easy to get distracted and to lose a clear focus on your career goals.
- by Jim Bright
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Coronavirus pandemic
'Things were looking optimistic and then just fell off a cliff': How the latest outbreak hurt business
Business conditions across NSW improved strongly towards the end of last year, but around one in four firms is still at "high risk of failure" once emergency pandemic support measures such as the federal government’s JobKeeper wages subsidy, interest waivers and other hardship measures are withdrawn in coming months.
- by Anna Patty and Matt Wade
Bosses can force their workers back to the office. So far, many haven't
Employment lawyers say staff generally have no legal right to insist on working from home instead of a COVID-safe office, but many bosses are not exercising their right to force the return of staff following the recent outbreaks in northern beaches and inner west.
- by Anna Patty and Chloe Booker
Opinion
Work therapy
Me in reality ... the elephant in the Zoom
It’s been 10 months since I started in a new job and I still haven’t met any colleagues in real life. Any tips for the "great unveiling" when we go back to the office?
- by Jonathan Rivett
Whistleblowing soars to record in US with people working from home
The work-from-home phenomenon has triggered a fresh frustration for corporations: Americans are blowing the whistle on their employers like never before.
- by Matt Robinson and Ben Bain
Google workers form new union, a tech industry rarity
A group of Google engineers has announced that they have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labour movement in the tech industry.
- by Matt O'Brien
Former CEO launches sexual harassment claim against her own company's investors
Hendry Group's former chief executive Emma Hendry went to The Salter Brothers for capital investment. Now, she's suing them for sexual harassment.
- by Charlotte Grieve and Sumeyya Ilanbey
A company made disposable gloves for the world. Now its workers have the virus
Top Glove, the world’s largest rubber glove maker, has enjoyed record profits in the pandemic, even as thousands of its low-paid workers in Malaysia suffer from a large outbreak of COVID-19.
- by Hannah Beech
Feeling like a fraud at work? Three ways to combat ‘Imposter Syndrome’
You might know it: That feeling that we are really just little kids in big offices, and that at any moment our dirty little secret will be found out and we will be fired on the spot.
- by Chris Taylor
Work to resume ‘gradually’ at Big Bell gold mine in wake of young worker’s death
Paige Counsell was struck by mobile plant equipment at the Big Bell mine but died while being transported to a Perth hospital via Royal Flying Doctor Service.
- by Hamish Hastie