These Aussie businesses are having ‘tools down days’ to help during lockdown
Australian businesses are choosing to offer their entire teams days off this month, as more employers recognise the immense challenges facing everyone while lockdowns continues across the country.
Grit, discipline and resilience: The experts’ tools of survival
Resilience, grit, and discipline are skills you can add to your repertoire, not innate qualities that you are born with or without.
“People are exhausted”: COVID-19 has led to mass burnout and doubled staff turnover rates, Culture Amp data shows
Even in successful businesses, employees are burning out en masse, says Culture Amp co-founder and chief Didier Elzinga.
Queensland’s Small Business Commissioner role made permanent to help SMEs facing hardship
The Palaszczuk government’s decision to make permanent the role of Queensland Small Business Commissioner recognises the ongoing hardship SMEs have endured during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Groundhog Day: Why lockdown is scrambling our memories and sense of time
With roughly half of Australia in lockdown at the moment, a common experience is a warped sense of time and poor memory. Here's why.
Women’s health company Organon gives Sydney parents three hours a day to support kids in remote learning
Parents working at health company Organon have been given up to three hours a day to support children in their remote learning activities during Sydney's current lockdown.
The hospitality sector is facing a mental health crisis
For an industry that employs approximately 851,000 people (accounting for 6.5% of the total workforce) the uncertainty and closures have left thousands of people in financially insecure situations.
New study shows open-plan office noise increases stress and worsens mood
A recent study has shown a significant causal relationship between open-plan office noise and physiological stress.
Women of colour still face discrimination at work. Here’s what business owners can do about it
Last week, damning statistics revealed pervasive racism in Aussie workplaces. For small businesses and startups, here's how to make change.
“It’s like Siri for your health”: Hundreds of Aussie businesses compete in AI-driven health challenge
Hundreds of Aussie businesses are competing in a free 30-day challenge designed to help employees improve their wellbeing using AI.
Kate Jenkins: “We’re at a turning point” for stamping out sexual harassment and improving equality
The Sex Discrimination Commissioner shares why she believes 2021 will be a turning point in championing gender diversity and ending sexual discrimination.
New Zip Co policy offers two weeks of paid leave to employees experiencing miscarriage or pregnancy loss
Aussie BNPL giant Zip Co is offering two weeks of paid leave for employees who suffer miscarriage or pregnancy loss before 20 weeks.