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    Workplace

    Yesterday

    Grant Thornton senior manager Priscilla Ly says she’s proud of her employer for introducing a nine-day fortnight.

    Grant Thornton adopts nine-day fortnight, but staff have to earn it

    The accounting firm’s year-long trial coincided with record productivity, employee retention and profits.

    • Euan Black

    This Month

    ASIC chairman Joe Longo at a parliamentary joint committee in April.

    ASIC staff motivation, satisfaction, stress hit critical levels

    A confidential staff survey made public through a Senate inquiry on Tuesday showed the regulator had just two out of 12 outcomes at average or desirable levels.

    • Ronald Mizen and Patrick Durkin
    EY is facing legal action from a man it made redundant last year.

    EY manager claims he was sacked for complaining about 80-hour week

    EY Australia has rejected claims by a manager he was sacked because he complained about being told to put in unreasonable hours.

    • Max Mason
    Qu Jing, the former head of public relations at Baidu.

    Baidu’s PR boss was fired for being a workplace tiger mum

    When the of head of public relations for China’s Google was fired over blunt remarks about staff, managers everywhere lost an honest voice.

    • Aaron Patrick
    TAL executive Jade Rosocha is ar frequent user of Microsoft Copilot.

    Why this executive uses generative AI every second hour

    Microsoft says workers who use AI can be divided into four camps: sceptics, novices, explorers and power users, who get back more than 30 minutes a day in time saved.

    • Euan Black
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    Melbourne shuns office return, Sydney coaxed by redundancy fears

    New figures also show Canberra has the second-lowest office attendance rates as public service workers do not face the same scrutiny as Sydney’s private sector.

    • Campbell Kwan
    Anthony Mouarrege said a simple act of kindness assured him his disability would not hold him back at work.

    Just one gesture stopped Anthony worrying about his disability at work

    Employers often assume that employing people with a disability is costly. New research suggests that’s not true.

    • Euan Black
    An Australian National University study has found that the gender of board appointees does not impact firm financial performance.

    Gender of directors added no financial value: study

    A study by the Australian National University has found that the gender of directors appointed to company boards had no impact on the financial performance of those businesses.

    • Patrick Durkin
    Xavier Huillard, CEO of Vinci: “I am not a businessman. I am a philosopher. I am a chemist of human beings.”

    Business school blather can’t beat real-world CEO know-how

    What’s needed is a new management theory that avoids the deceptive certainties of neoliberalism and the equally deceptive vagaries of stakeholder capitalism.

    • Adrian Wooldridge
    A trio of MinterEllison PE partners is heading to Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

    More Australians go above and beyond duty amid job fears

    Discretionary effort has hit a four-year-high as workers try to protect themselves from being made redundant, according to global consultancy Gartner. 

    • Euan Black
    Dr Amantha Imber of Inventium

    Pioneering CEO reveals the truth about four-day work weeks

    Workplace consultancy Inventium was the first company in Australia to adopt a shorter schedule, but three years later it is not on track to hit its targets.

    • Amantha Imber

    Why AGL’s staff are happier after a major plant closure

    AGL will use the Liddell decommissioning as a blueprint for plant shutdowns, after it managed to move 100 per cent of workers into new roles.

    • Agnes King

    Employees want more autonomy, so it’s in bosses’ interest to listen

    Convinced that happier workers are also more productive, Australia’s most progressive employers are giving staff greater freedom and choice.

    • Euan Black

    The secrets to a happy workplace revealed

    In a world where many leaders are putting in place back to office mandates, the best places to work prioritise freedom and choice.

    • Amantha Imber
    Grosvenor’s Stefan Gassner and Charitee Davies said the firm is committed to helping employees reach their full potential.

    How these firms retained staff by helping them grow

    Boutique management consultancy Grosvenor has won the professional services category of the 2024 AFR Best Places to Work list.

    • Euan Black
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    How this organisation prevented burnout for staff

    A surge in complaints to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority led to a rethink of hiring and leave policies, adding 500 new staff to cope with the workload.

    • Nina Hendy
    Mercer’s David Bryant takes an active interest in talent.

    Why everyone kept their job in this merger

    When Mercer and BT merged their superannuation funds, 99.6 per cent of staff remained with the business.

    • Ayesha de Kretser

    April

    Sydney was ranked as the 10th most desirable city for expats.

    Australia named top destination in the world for expats

    Australia has been named the No.1 destination in the world for professionals seeking to relocate internationally. 

    • Euan Black

    Singapore’s burnout rate shows the price of success

    Singaporeans enjoy some of the highest living standards in Asia. But all of this has come at a price. It is also one of the most stressed-out societies.

    • Karishma Vaswani
    Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh noted the Federal Trade Commission’s findings that a ban would increase wages.

    Labor urged to restrict rather than ban non-compete clauses

    Leading economists have urged the Albanese government to significantly restrict the use of non-compete clauses to revive Australia’s ailing productivity growth.

    • Euan Black