Jobs
Make way for Gen Z: Young Australians are rewriting the rules of work
A force to be reckoned with: Generation Z are entering the workplace with an inherent belief in corporate responsibility – and the means to make it happen.
- by Jessica Yun and Anthony Segaert
Latest
Labor in power: Big business braces for the Albanese era
Corporate heavyweights say addressing skills shortages and climate change policy should be critical priorities for the Albanese government.
- by Clancy Yeates, Nick Toscano and Dominic Powell
The rise of the workation: do work and play really belong?
The life of a work-from-anywhere digital nomad sounds glamorous. The jury is still out on whether it offers the reset we require.
- by Nicola Heath
‘We can’t wait’: NSW, Victoria demand urgent action on worker shortages
Premier Dominic Perrottet said both states are being hampered by the staff drought, with delays of up to 18 months for overseas workers to obtain a visa.
- by Lucy Cormack and Lucy Carroll
Sydney job pool falls below 100,000 as inflation pressures grow
The strength of the jobs market has been highlighted by figures showing there are fewer than 100,000 unemployed people across Sydney.
- by Shane Wright
Opinion
Disability
Dear Activ friends: Look after yourself and don’t lose hope
She’s a creative, a reader and a mainstream worker, supported for her Down Syndrome. She wants to tell those about to lose their jobs that they can find new friends.
- by Kaitlyn Ajduk
Opinion
The lowdown
Politicians say they love local manufacturing. Here’s how they can act on it
Factories provide an excellent backdrop for high-vis clad politicians to make election campaign announcements. But the reality is that local manufacturing employs just about 6 per cent of the Australian workforce.
- by Jesse Adams Stein
Election fight over economy fires up as jobless rate nears 50-year low
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese have clashed over who can best keep people in jobs while delivering real wage rises, as unemployment reached 3.9 per cent.
- by Rachel Clun and Shane Wright
Unemployment falls to lowest level since 1974
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the jobless rate at its lowest level since Gough Whitlam was in power.
- by Shane Wright and Rachel Clun
Why is a major Sydney arts festival ‘working with Google’ to offer an unpaid internship?
The Biennale of Sydney has drawn criticism after advertising an unpaid internship for a project developed in partnership with Google.
- by Meg Watson
Help! My boss keeps treating me like his assistant
A worker is fed up with being constantly asked to get her boss’ lunch and do errands for him, as the only woman on the team. Kirstin Ferguson says it’s time to speak up.
- by Kirstin Ferguson