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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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- Climate crisis
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
- Opinion
- Workplace
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
- Opinion
- AI
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
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- Employment
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
- Opinion
- Workplace
‘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
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 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
- Opinion
- Workplace
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
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