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It’s easy to get distracted in the office, be it from your phone or from a chatty colleague.

We get distracted 275 times a day. Use three ways to stay focused

Even when there’s no one else around, we are bombarded with constant virtual pings from new messages and emails all day long.

  • Tim Duggan

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Northern NSW will experience some of the harshest effects of climate change reflecting high exposure to flooding, drought and bushfire, and high reliance on climate-sensitive or outdoor industries.

You’re losing $20k a year because of climate change – and it’s predicted to get worse

As well as the cost of extreme weather and natural disasters, longer-term climatic changes are also a drag on economic productivity, the NSW Net Zero Commission says.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Older Australians, especially women, are staying in the workforce longer than ever before.

Is your workplace facing a ‘Boomer bottleneck’?

Take a close look around your workplace, and you’re likely to see more older workers continuing to work well past the traditional retirement age.

  • Tim Duggan
Data centres are frequently criticised for devouring land and power while offering few long-term jobs once construction wraps up.

AI could destroy us. Too late now. We’re up to our eyeballs in it

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.

  • Shane Wright
AI will disrupt the nation’s jobs market - but the early signs are muted.

The AI jobs apocalypse hasn’t landed in Australia – yet

New research into AI shows that it has yet to hit Australia’s jobs market. But data centre construction means it may be about to.

  • Shane Wright
Tony (Rob Sitch) and Katie (Emma-Louise Wilson) in series five of Utopia.

‘Like an episode of Utopia’: Why are Australian workplace comedies so good?

Every time a character has an awkward conversation next to the coffee machine, or struggles with the photocopier settings, it triggers an uncomfortable familiarity.

  • Tim Duggan
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Jobseeker services to get first overhaul in 30 years

The one-size-fits-all scheme will be replaced by three streams as Labor grapples with the best way to assist the country’s growing cohort of long-term unemployed people.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (virtual) with CommBank CEO Matt Comyn.

OpenAI boss downplays jobs apocalypse as ‘threats of violence’ hit Aussie tech giant

Sam Altman no longer thinks AI will replace workers en masse, but admits businesses are yet to see a return on their massive AI spending.

  • Colin Kruger
The “Why work eight hours on Friday and get paid for four” mindset is creeping in as more than triple the number of taxpayers jump into the top tax bracket.

The corporate ladder is dead, but your career doesn’t have to be

We’re living through the biggest shift in how people work since the industrial era, and that requires a radical new way of thinking.

  • Anna Mackenzie
Commuters heading to work during peak hour.

Economy crunched as unemployment hits highest level since pandemic

The Iran War and inflation are starting to hit Australia’s jobs market. Experts say this has effectively killed the likelihood of another rate rise next month.

  • Shane Wright