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We can’t put a price on better work … or can we?
This is an older piece of news, but as we found ourselves talking about these trials during our centre research meeting last week, we...
Aug 2, 2017
The Female Perspective on the Gig Economy
From Hyperwallet, Q1 2017 In Australia, the average female salary is 86% of that of the average male. However, according to a recent...
Jul 31, 2017
Long working days can cause heart problems
From "The Guardian", July 14, 2017 According to a major study by a research team at University College, London, a long hours office...
Jul 19, 2017
Good Work in the Media! The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices in the UK has been published!
Good work: the Taylor review of modern working practices The British government yesterday published a review considering the implications...
Jul 11, 2017
Shocking Job Characteristics for Young Women Working as Bartenders in a Mining Town
When people talk about Western Australia (WA), they often mention the importance of the mining industry for the region, particularly how...
Jul 10, 2017
More on Uber's incentives to keep drivers working Uber-long hours: potential safety hazards and
According to NPR, Uber's variable pay rates to drivers create uncertainty in drivers about whether or not they'll meet their earning...
Jun 26, 2017
The dark side of gig work: A work design perspective on flexible work.
From The Conversation, June 19, 2017 An increasing number of part-time workers are looking towards rideshare services such as Uber, or...
Jun 21, 2017
Work design is the new black: Or is it orange?
In Australia, winter season is often Netflix season - that is, why we were happy when we saw that (since June 9) the new season of...
Jun 12, 2017
Digging in the past, to look in the future: What impact had the "spreadsheet" on modern wo
We recently came across this podcast episode around the impact of "spreadsheets" (episode 606, a rerun from 2015) that caught our...
Jun 11, 2017
The Costs of Loneliness at Work
From the Financial Times, June 8, 2017 A recent article in Financial Times, authored by Emma Jacobs, discusses about the problem of...
Jun 8, 2017
Mental Health of Australian Soldiers
From ABC Online, May 19, 2017 Life in the army could be very tough. To perform their duties, soldiers always have to endure incredible...
Jun 6, 2017
An Online Tool to Gauge Work Design
From Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, May 1, 2017 Earlier this month, Dina Gerdeman, senior writer for Harvard Business School...
May 28, 2017
Stop Visual "Noise" from Ruining Your Work
From the Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2017 Why you can't concentrate at your work? Well, there must be quite a range of factors, either...
May 22, 2017
AI and job losses – “Don’t buy into the hype or the fear”
From ABC’s RN Breakfast, May 17, 2017 Experts forecast that within the next ten to fifteen years, more than 40 per cent of Australian...
May 16, 2017
Doctors are Human Too
From "The New York Times", April 21, 2017 Following a recent spate of suicides by young doctors in New South Wales, a young Sydney...
Apr 25, 2017
McKinsey & Co: Report on future work and the impact on global productivity
From McKinsey Global Institute, January 1, 2017 A recent report released by McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) - “A Future That Works:...
Apr 18, 2017
2017 Global Workplace Trends – A new report by SODEXO
A report on global workplace trends has recently been released by SODEXO, summarising, from their perspective, the most relevant and...
Apr 5, 2017
PwC report - Will robots steal our jobs?
From PricewaterhouseCoopers, March, 2017 A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that up to 38% of US jobs, 35% of German jobs...
Apr 4, 2017
How Uber Nudges Its Drivers to Work Longer - A Decision-Making Perspective to Work Design
From The New York Times, April 2, 2017 Employees make a lot of decisions at work everyday. They make decisions about when to start work,...
Apr 2, 2017
The accidental midwife with high task significance
In this interview from the ABC's "Conversations", Richard Fidler interviews Lisa Peberdy, a midwife who began her career quite...
Apr 1, 2017
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