More than three-quarters of work meetings in Australia are ineffective and are stopping people getting their actual work done, according to new research. The Workplace Woes: Meeting Edition report, released by Atlassian, involves a survey of 5,000 knowledge workers across four continents, including 1,000 employees in Australia, in partnership with Wakefield Research. The research found… Read more »
Zoom, the videoconferencing company whose fortunes soared with the pandemic-driven shift to working from home, has reportedly told its staff to get back to the office – for at least two days a week, if the commute is no more than 80 kilometres. It’s part of a trend of employers winding back the work-from-home flexibility… Read more »
Elon Musk doesn’t like people working from home. A year ago he declared the end of remote work for employees at car maker Tesla. Now he has called the desire of the “laptop classes” to work from home “immoral”. “You’re gonna work from home and you’re gonna make everyone else who made your car come… Read more »
Sixty years ago, the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being canceled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this, the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s (51 episodes over two seasons), and a feature-length… Read more »
Tech companies are always in the news, usually touting the next big thing. However, the tech news cycle recently hasn’t been dominated by the latest gadget or innovation. Instead, layoffs are in the headlines. In the last year, more than 70,000 people globally have been laid off by Big Tech companies – and that doesn’t… Read more »
At the start of August, more than a dozen Australian companies began a six-month trial of a four-day working week. It’s part of a growing trend, led by tech companies, of shortening the work week without a reduction in pay, with hopes of maintaining the same level of productivity. And it’s picking up steam across… Read more »
For two years, online meeting fatigue has been a key concern as people spend a large part of their day on screen in meetings. But now we’re heading back into the office, many workers are starting to remember that online is not the problem, it’s often simply the meetings themselves. How do you make sure… Read more »
Four out of five (78%) of Gen Z workers considered moving jobs post-pandemic, a survey by rewards platform Perkbox has found. The survey of more than 1000 employee under 25 (born between 1997 and 2012) by data research firm Censuswide didn’t quite deliver a great resignation, although low unemployment and high competition for skilled workers driving… Read more »
Twitter pugilist Elon Musk has a new war to fight on the micro-blogging site he’s buying. After ordering his executives back into the office for a “minimum” of 40 hours a week via email, Musk followed up with an all staff email saying “If you don’t show up, we’ll assume you’ve resigned”. Taking a dig… Read more »
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered his company’s executives back to the office for at least 40 hours a week or they should leave the business. In a leaked email titled “Remote work is no longer acceptble” [sic], Musk began: “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum… Read more »
We are witnessing a radical change in how Gen Z jobseekers across Australia & New Zealand think about their careers. In the US, many of the best and brightest students flock to Silicon Valley to join or build transformational companies like Tesla, Khan Academy, Coinbase & Discord. Meanwhile in Australia, our high achievers have traditionally… Read more »
The percentage of women on boards in Australia is often used as evidence that we need to do better when it comes to diversity. For the record, that number is roughly a third. Directors from Non-Anglo-Celtic background? Just 10%. This is clearly too low when you consider that a third of Australia’s population identifies are… Read more »
The disruption of the COVID pandemic has led many of us to reconsider our relationship to work, as well as our spending priorities. Some are eager to return to pre-pandemic “normality”. Others have found working from home to be liberating and are keen to preserve their newfound autonomy. Still others, such as health workers, are… Read more »
Sydney future of work startup Calven has raised $6.8 million in seed funding as it looks to tackle hybrid work culture. The round was led by Sydney VC Airtree, and several strategic backers, including Herbert Smith Freehills partner Michael Gonski and the Gonski family office. Calven co-founder Jeremy Pollak, a veteran of workplace technology consulting… Read more »
Officely, a desk booking service for hybrid offices, has raised US$2 million (A$2.8m) in seed funding. The round was led by investor TEN13 alongside angels such as Go1 co-founder Vu Tran and Luxury Escapes co-founder Adam Schwab. The funds will be used to expand the team, and grow the product offering and feature sets. Officely was… Read more »
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