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How this CEO cuts hour-long meetings to just five minutes

Justin Graham of advertising firm M&C Saatchi also says he wants to compete on Survivor, but suspects he might be thrown off the reality TV show early.

  • Sally Patten and Lap Phan
Wages growth is key to the outlook for interest rates.

Bosses tie bonuses to office attendance

The company has joined rival energy company Origin in linking office attendance to annual bonuses and performance reviews.

  • Euan Black

Judge lashes Qantas union for delaying tactics

A Federal Court judge has accused the Transport Workers Union of “sitting on its backside” over a claim it should be compensated for lost membership dues.

  • David Marin-Guzman

Aged care workers win pay rises of up to 14pc, fuelling inflation fears

More than 300,000 aged care workers have won large pay rises that are expected to increase wage pressures on other sectors and cost the budget billions.

  • David Marin-Guzman and John Kehoe

Why staff are job hunting more than ever before

The high cost of living has generated rising employee fears about job security and prompted record numbers of people to consider changing jobs, new data shows.

  • Patrick Durkin

What happens behind closed doors at Australia’s elite schools

The saga at Sydney’s Cranbrook School could trigger a new wave of accountability for how private schools operate.

  • Julie Hare

Recent columns

Drug use at work isn’t biohacking. It’s workaholism

Even if anecdote-driven reports oversell the problem, it’s clear that the “just say no” and “this is your brain on drugs” eras are a relic of the past.

Sarah Green Carmichael

Contributor

Independence isn’t the power the ‘directorati’ would have us believe

The irony is the skills needed to secure invitations to join boards from the king- and queen-makers of corporate Australia are the antithesis of what’s required to monitor and test management.

Gabriel Radzyminski

CIO Sandon Capital

Gabriel Radzyminski

Lee rebukes TWU’s monopoly

The court cases involving Uber and Qantas raised different questions about legalised business and union monopolies.

The AFR View

Editorial

The AFR View

Unions target small business through women

Inflexibility over work hours and the right to disconnect will hit women and their small business employers the hardest of all.

Amanda Rose

Women's advocate

Amanda Rose
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Drug use at work isn’t biohacking. It’s workaholism

Even if anecdote-driven reports oversell the problem, it’s clear that the “just say no” and “this is your brain on drugs” eras are a relic of the past.

  • 16 mins ago
  • Sarah Green Carmichael
NAB chairman Phil Chronican has warned of conflicts of interest.

Independence isn’t the power the ‘directorati’ would have us believe

The irony is the skills needed to secure invitations to join boards from the king- and queen-makers of corporate Australia are the antithesis of what’s required to monitor and test management.

  • 40 mins ago
  • Gabriel Radzyminski

Yesterday

Federal Court judge Michael Lee.

Lee rebukes TWU’s monopoly

The court cases involving Uber and Qantas raised different questions about legalised business and union monopolies.

  • The AFR View
Unions are not concerned with women’s rights on this issue.

Unions target small business through women

Inflexibility over work hours and the right to disconnect will hit women and their small business employers the hardest of all.

  • Amanda Rose

This Month

Sexual harassment remains common on WA mining sites.

‘Covert’ sex harassment rife at WA mines

The mining industry has a long way to go to stamp out systemic harassment of women, a study has found.

  • Euan Black
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Damien Nicks, CEO of AGL at the Mount Beauty hydro scheme in Victoria.

How this Deloitte auditor got his chance to rescue AGL as CEO

Becoming a CEO was never a goal that drove Damien Nicks’ career, but when the energy company hit its lowest point, he knew it was the right time to step up.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Amanda Bell

Clare threatens to take funding away from Cranbrook

Education Minister Jason Clare has threatened to withdraw federal funding from Cranbrook School if an investigation finds “evidence of a pattern of immoral or unethical behaviour”.

  • Julie Hare
Odgers Berndtson principal Alistair Clark said getting more women into senior leadership was more important than redressing the gender imbalance in HR.

Lack of men in HR least of bosses’ gender-equality problems

The push for greater gender diversity in corporate Australia has not translated into getting more men into female-dominated human resources roles.

  • Euan Black
International students are having their visas rejected by a new automated system that some liken to RoboDebt.

Students flocking to Australia despite visa confusion

International students are still flooding into the country, but record visa rejections have some wondering what’s going on.

  • Julie Hare
Well-heeled schools have much better access to resources, but ChatGPT could help level the playing field for poorer schools if used properly, experts say.

Private school parents save the education system $4.6b a year: study

A new analysis calculates that governments spend $4.6 billion less each year than they would if all students were enrolled in public schools.

  • Updated
  • Julie Hare

Where boards are still going wrong

Only a few chairmen have dared look outside the usual pathways to the board to find a director with deep skills in technology, marketing or human resources.

  • Sally Patten
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody at an AFR conference in February.

Sexual harassment is being used to shape business culture

Directors who don’t follow the Human Rights Commission’s anti-establishment directives are taking a big risk.

  • Aaron Patrick
If the union’s application is successful, mineworkers at the Callide mine would get big pay rises from November.

Miners make historic bid for ‘same job same pay’

The mining union is using Labor’s new laws to push up pay for labour hire by as much as $20,000. Employers say it’s just the start of disruption across worksites.

  • Updated
  • David Marin-Guzman
Employers argue unsocial hours and fatigue issues are not as big issues when staff work at home.

Employers want to remove ‘outdated’ penalties for WFH

Business says unsocial hours and fatigue issues are not as relevant when staff work at home.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Google managing director Melanie Silva.

Google’s Australian boss reveals her pet hate in the office

Ask Mel Silva, managing director of Google in Australia, what she doesn’t like at work and she doesn’t hold back.

  • Cindy Yin and Sally Patten
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An estimated 1.3 million students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 will take part in the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) from Wednesday.

Early NAPLAN gives more time to help struggling students

Students will sit the national assessment program earlier than ever before, with results landing much sooner in the school year.

  • Julie Hare
Cranbrook will overhaul policies relating to child protection, whistleblowing and bullying.

Cranbrook to overhaul whistleblowing, child protection, bullying

Cranbrook School has written to its community with a raft of measures designed to restore trust in the school’s management and governance.

  • Julie Hare
It’s no longer a case of solely having strong technical skills, says Robert Half director Nicole Gorton.

Jobseekers asking more questions about gender pay gap after WGEA data

The publication of large employers’ gender pay gaps has led to more questions from candidates about parental leave policies too.

  • Euan Black
Lucinda Holdforth appearing at the Summit.

Why business leaders can’t cope with criticism

Chief executives who insist on hiring “yes people” soon forget how to present an argument in public, speechwriter and author Lucinda Holdforth claims.

  • Sally Patten
Incoming University of Sydney chancellor, David Thodey, right, will replace Belinda Hutchinson.

Thodey to replace Hutchinson as Sydney University chancellor

With Sydney Uni deriving about half its revenue from foreign students, incoming chancellor David Thodey welcomes “a conversation” about effect on the broader community.

  • Julie Hare