Angela Priestley, Author at SmartCompany

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Recruitment firm offers $10,000 annual childcare payment to employees

Childcare costs are out of control in Australia and one firm wants to do something about it by offering a $10,000 childcare subsidiary to employees.

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Inspiring inclusion this International Women’s Day? Don’t get duped by corporate phantoms

If you leverage the ‘Inspire Inclusion’ theme for your marketing or event efforts, you are complying with a UK-based firm that runs the internationalwomensday.com domain but offers no transparency on who is behind it.

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Get moving: Lorna Jane’s 37.1% gender pay gap highlights a bigger problem with retail

High-end activewear brand Lorna Jane has a total remuneration gender pay gap of 37.1% and a median base gender pay gap of 36.3%.

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Have hybrid work, parental leave and the right to disconnect helped working parents?

While talk of workplaces becoming more “family-friendly” is heard across the public and private sectors, it’s essential to learn just how well all the rhetoric matches the reality for working parents and carers.

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All women-founded startups secured only 4% of the $3.5 billion funding in 2023

Sixty-two percent of funding deals went to all-male founding teams, compared to 12% for all-female founding teams and 26% for teams involving at least one female founder.

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Steam building activity: Saunas and ice baths emerge as business meeting venues

It’s one thing to learn about the morning routines of others that include jumping from bed directly into an ice bath to prepare for the “stress” of the day. But another thing entirely to learn that 7am business meetings are now taking place in saunas.

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Employers’ legal duty to prevent sexual harassment kicks in as the party season gets underway

Australian businesses now have a “positive duty” to prevent sexual harassment, with new sexual discrimination enforcement laws coming into place.

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Why the acquisition of all-women founded Verve Super is a story worth telling

Co-founder Christina Hobbs shared news of the acquisition on LinkedIn, five years after launching the first superannuation fund to be led by women and tailored for women.

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More than 5000 Australian employers will soon have their gender pay gap made public

The good news is that Australia’s total remuneration gender pay gap has dropped slightly, down 1.1 percentage points to a new low of 21.7%. But the real story could be in what’s to come over the next year.

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The all-male mentor list shows Australia’s startup ecosystem is far from “thriving”

Given the “top eight” list was based on numerical data garnered from a survey of the startup sector, seeing an all-male result come through was hardly surprising.

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‘Probably not going to work out’: Amazon CEO’s message to remote employees

Amazon’s three-day-a-week policy replaced previous policies that enabled individual teams to decide on working from home.

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Jeff Kennett wants pay cuts for those working from home. Here’s why it wouldn’t work

If you’re working from home today, you’re saving money and stress on commuting. So why not take a pay cut to help compensate those who have no choice but to go to a place of work?

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