This Month
Autonomy the key to career paths at this consumer giant
A shift in career planning and transparency in job ads have been central to keeping Unilever’s employees engaged.
- Prashant Mehra
- Opinion
- Best places to work
The secrets to a happy workplace revealed
In a world where many leaders are putting in place back to office mandates, the best places to work prioritise freedom and choice.
- Amantha Imber
Employee wellbeing is a winner in the war for tech talent
In a competitive market where talent is the “most-prized commodity”, a tech workplace’s offering to their employees is crucial.
- Christopher Niesche
Planning delays transformed into social housing solutions at Toga
Property developer Toga turns vacant apartments and retail spaces in projects awaiting planning approval into pop-up accommodation for vulnerable communities.
- Larry Schlesinger
How a weekly Shark Tank challenge turned The Royals family around
Suffering high turnover and low engagement, creative agency The Royals decided to carve out a day each week dedicated to one pitch. It worked.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
How this organisation prevented burnout for staff
A surge in complaints to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority led to a rethink of hiring and leave policies, adding 500 new staff to cope with the workload.
- Nina Hendy
This company pays you for your commute with extra days off
This fintech has taken a different approach to getting people back into the office and the results are paying dividends for diversity, too.
- Ayesha de Kretser
- Analysis
- Best places to work
How we picked the award winners
The AFR BOSS Best Places to Work ranks the best workplaces in Australia and New Zealand across nine different industries.
- Amantha Imber
Family-focussed firm offers fertility benefits
Staff at Engage Squared can receive up to $5000 towards fertility treatments.
- Christopher Niesche
April
Companies picking up the bill for employees’ egg freezing and IVF
Google has joined the growing ranks of companies offering financial reimbursements to staff for fertility treatments.
- Euan Black
- Opinion
- Opinion
Taxpayers should be furious over public service’s ‘ghost’ offices
On a recent Friday in Canberra, a deflated public servant friend revealed that there were only three people at work on a floor space that can seat 30 to 40.
- Updated
- John Kehoe
Gen Z bosses redefine workplaces with crystals and gratitude journals
The number of such UK directors shot up by 42 per cent in the year to January. There are now almost a quarter of a million – and they are bringing changes.
- Charlotte Gill
- Exclusive
- Construction
Construction’s long hours put next generation of workers off
A new industry survey shows working conditions in an industry already struggling to attract women are also putting off the next generation of men.
- Michael Bleby
Singapore orders all employers to consider flexi-time requests
Singapore’s move is in line with other countries including Ireland and the UK, where governments require businesses to consider flexi-work requests.
- Yihui Xie
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Workers could get rights to double their holidays
Unions and employers are close to agreement on introducing a right for workers to take twice their annual leave on half pay.
- David Marin-Guzman
Greg lets his staff work from home every day – but there’s a catch
Sydney boss Greg Weiss says competent employees can be trusted to work remotely full-time if accountability measures are put in place.
- Gus McCubbing
The five secrets of workplace success
There is no quick path to desk-based nirvana. But here are five insights about surviving at work.
- Isabel Berwick
- Opinion
- Keir Starmer
Why it doesn’t pay to be a working-class professional
Social class is a bigger barrier to career progress than gender or ethnicity, a study by KPMG in Britain has shown.
- Pilita Clark
Australians lead the world in business-leisure trips
Aussies are taking business trips nearly twice the length of the global average and Melbourne boss and golfer Jon Kerr is all for it.
- Gus McCubbing
This billionaire sees a four-day week coming
Steve Cohen has invested in golf courses because he predicts the dawn of the four-day work week will leave people with more time for leisure.
- Katherine Burton
