Yesterday
- Opinion
- Psychology
Is your colleague a sociopath?
Also known as “dark triad” personalities, these manipulative narcissists are indifferent to people’s feelings.
- Arthur C Brooks
February
20 microaggressions that should get you sent to HR
Increasing scrutiny of our workplace behaviour has put the spotlight on small acts that might cause offence. Here are some more to add to the list.
- Guy Kelly
Men dominate top pay quartiles at biggest companies
Men were far more likely to earn more than women the further up in organisations they moved, new data shows.
- Hannah Wootton and Cindy Yin
Tracking and decoding corporate jargon
A tracker of our growing list of corporatespeak – and our suggestions for plain-language alternatives. Consider it your jargon dictionary.
- Updated
- Edmund Tadros
Full list: the gender pay gaps at Australia’s top 250 companies
The Australian Financial Review has dug through calculations of pay disparity at more than 5000 companies to zero in on the ASX200 and the largest private firms.
- Cindy Yin
Bonuses, overtime drive 19pc gender pay gap
The median pay gap at businesses with 100-plus employees has been revealed for the first time and professional services and banks recorded some of the worst disparities.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Wall Street
The rising menace of absurd job titles
From “global general counsel” to “chief growth officer”, terrible epithets confuse and infuriate, but they are also increasing.
- Pilita Clark
- Exclusive
- Gender pay gap
Emma fuels jets for the overtime, but she’s a gender pay gap exception
Traditionally male-dominated industries such as energy and construction have wider gender pay gaps, CEOs admit ahead of the historic release of national gender pay gap data.
- Sally Patten and Hannah Wootton
Overtime, bonuses help men earn more than women
Systemic barriers stop women picking up these overtime hours though, putting them even further behind their male colleagues financially.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Gender pay gap
Why directors need to tackle gender pay gaps
They cannot simply ignore the rear-view data or brush it off as another reporting or compliance obligation.
- Ann Sherry and Andrew Stevens
10 easy steps to massage your gender pay gap
The labour of solving a problem that is not caused by them, and directly disadvantages them, again falls to women.
- Hannah Wootton
Gender pay gap falls to record low: ABS
The gender pay gap of the average full-time employee in Australia has fallen to a record low of 15 per cent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- Edmund Tadros
How UK gender pay gap data helped drive change
Similar data will be published about Australian businesses on Tuesday in an attempt to force similar transparency and action locally.
- Hannah Wootton
How to avoid a car crash interview
Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci now has plenty of time to reflect on Monday night’s car crash interview. Here’s what other leaders can learn.
- Patrick Durkin
The number of public servants working from home has doubled
Many new employees say flexible conditions contributed to their decision to take a job.
- Tom Burton
Right to disconnect? We’re already doing it, say bosses
Australian HR Institute CEO Sarah McCann-Bartlett says employers will be uncertain about the right to disconnect until test cases bed it down.
- Gus McCubbing
Why we still can’t agree on how to work from home
Four years on from the onset of COVID-19, companies and individuals are as far apart on a consensus on this issue as ever. But this year could bring change.
- Patrick Durkin
Public servants working from home not ‘disconnected’
The head of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations says about one-third of her employees have flexible work arrangements.
- Tom McIlroy and Cindy Yin
Five tips to manage your Gen Z workers
Knowing what these young employees want is one thing. Actually managing them – and trying to retain them – is quite another.
- Sally Patten
ANZ to cut up to 170 business banking jobs
The job cuts, which equate to about 5 per cent of local commercial banking staff, come as the bank looks to shift smaller customers to digital channels.
- Lucas Baird and Euan Black
