This Working Life

How to deal with a bad boss

Have you had to endure a bad boss?   What makes them so difficult, how can you spot them a mile off, and how can you avoid hiring them in the first place?   New researc

What work is doing to your brain

How is your grey matter doing? Are you digitally overloaded? Spinning out even thinking about another notification?   Our brains weren't designed to operate in the moder

How to be better at conflict

What are you like with conflict? Do you relish it or shy away?   Being uncomfortable with the fray may be holding us back at work and stifling our ability to work creati

Scoop! Why summer jobs are still hot

Believe it or not, it's almost summer!   A lot of universities are finishing up and high schools only have a few weeks until exams. All of a sudden people need employmen

Workplace Physio: Protect Your Neck!

How's your neck feeling? Tight? Falling forward?  You aren't alone.   In the first edition of our occasional series Workplace Physio we look forward, with our heads hel

Is AI killing entry level jobs?

Is AI coming for your job?   Well, maybe not yet. But there are early warning signs that entry level jobs are getting squeezed and traditional career pathways are closin

It's burnout season!

Are you burnt out ... again?!   How does it keep coming round like clockwork?    We're entering burnout season, and author Karl Treacher agues in his new book Built to

Wellness shortcuts do more harm than good

Are you drowning in digital?   Are the company sponsored mental health tools helping you at all? They've become the norm as they're cheaper and easier to apply than trad

Simone Stolzoff wants you to be uncertain!

It feels like we’re constantly being asked to know things, to be rock solid in our information.   But is this desire for control and certainty stopping us from making be

You're being measured!

Do you measure up? Digital and AI tools coupled with an increased desire for productivity means we’re being marked more closely than ever before.  New research shows th

Fluorescent lights burning you out?

How does your office make you feel? Are you an open plan convert or dying under the halogen lighting?  We spend a lot of time in our workplaces and the way they’re desig

What do you do in a crisis?

How do you react in a crisis? Are you fight, flight, fawn or flee?  We all react differently to moments of panic and stress but one thing we all have in common is that t

How to get hired in the AI age

Artificial intelligence use in the job hunt is happening so fast it's hard to keep track and applicants and employers are feeling harassed by the speed of the change.  

We're too tired to work!

Are you just too tired to work?  Australians feel exhausted. Eighty two per cent of Australian knowledge workers reported being on the verge of burnout last year, and bu

Is Gina Rinehart right about cash bonuses?

Australia’s richest person and long time supporter of Australian Swimming Gina Rinehart has been offering cash bonuses for Aussie swimmers at the Commonwealth games, $20,

The dangers of silence at work

Speaking out at work is hard. It's even harder in a culture of silence.  To take the decision to break the quiet is an act of bravery, ands it's one many of us are unwil

Is it getting harder to find a job?

After the 100th email auto reply, the AI application screening and writing the umpteenth cover letter of the week, the job hunt can feel like a real drain.  If you're fe

Is being good at your job holding you back?

Are you being asked time and again to be the one who gets everything done, is your reward for crushing it, just more “it” to crush?  You might be paying a competence Tax!

Take a break!

When you’re under the pump, it can feel like taking a break at work is impossible. But that can be habit forming, and bad for your physical and mental health.  Learn the

How to avoid "Wellness Washing"

You may have heard of greenwashing, now experts are worried about wellness washing where workplaces paper over the cracks with wellbeing measures but leave the chasms und