Jobs
Tight jobs market adds to pressure on Reserve Bank to accelerate rate rises
The number of people looking for a job or underemployed has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years as the unemployment rate remains steady at 3.9 per cent.
- by Rachel Clun
Latest
Tesla chair predicts tech worker boom in western Sydney
Tesla’s chair Robyn Denholm is confident the recent wipeout in global technology stock valuations will not hinder growth in the sector domestically.
- by Anne Hyland
Opinion
Minimum wage
Yes, minimum wage rises can hurt jobs, but not this one
The only path to sustainable real wages growth is a sustained improvement in the productivity of our workforce.
- by Jessica Irvine
Help! My boss is telling me to work from the office or leave
As a worker deals with an employer who echoes the recent edict from Elon Musk to Tesla employees, Dr Kirstin Ferguson has some frank advice.
- by Kirstin Ferguson
Exclusive
Skills shortage
Jobs summit, white paper ‘pivotal’ opportunity to address national skills gap: O’Connor
Skills and Training Minister Brendan O’Connor says driving economic productivity is “not just about hard hats”, it’s about investing in all sectors of the labour market suffering skill shortages.
- by Angus Thompson
ABC archive staff redundancies won’t risk local content, managing director says
The planned redundancies are part of the ABC’s digitisation of much of its audio and video collection and the rollout of systems that reporters and producers will use to source their own archival material.
- by Angus Thompson
When are emojis in work emails unprofessional?
Emojis have become central to digital communication, even in the workplace. The key is to know when it is and isn’t appropriate.
- by Kirstin Ferguson
‘People want a work-life balance’: Four-day work week trial begins in the UK
Thousands of employees across 70 companies have started the first day of a four-day work week as part of a pilot program.
- by Christine Hauser
The ‘two hours of power’ hack to reach your most productive self
These two hours are to be treated as sacrosanct with no meetings, email replies or phone tapping.
- by Kimberly Gillan
The Ukrainian women determined to keep working
Displaced Ukrainian women have not only left their husbands and homeland, but also prosperous careers. Now, on the other side of the world, these resilient women are determined to resume their professional lives in Australia.
- by Tom Canetti
Editorial
Childcare
Government must tackle skills shortage to deliver childcare promise
Families already struggle to find childcare for their children, but it’s about to get worse, with the sector at crisis point.
- The Herald's View