Dear Aunty B, I am fed up. My financials for the year have just come in and I was expecting to make a small profit. Instead, my CFO has told…
Dear Aunty B, I am fed up. My financials for the year have just come in and I was expecting to make a small profit. Instead, my CFO has told…
Industrial action continues to rise under the Rudd Government’s new Fair Work regime, with Melbourne-based packaging giant Visy shutting dow…
One very effective way of knowing how to handle a lot of conflicts (both overt and covert) at work is by understanding boundaries, and makin…
Dear Aunty B, I run a marketing services business that owns a call centre subsidiary. I recently received a call from someone in the union a…
The industrial landscape changed on 1 July 2009 with the new Fair Work Act (FWA). It will change further on 1 January 2010 when the NES and …
I was chatting to an entrepreneur at a wedding the other night and quickly became engrossed in his dilemma. He had reached the stage where h…
Australia’s drinking culture is giving businesses a hangover, with the cost for lost productivity through hangovers and sickies, staff turno…
The shutdown of a Campbell’s Soups factory in regional Victoria over flexible working arrangements has raised questions over the operation o…
Contrary to better judgement, all the opposing evidence and an overdose of reading the tea leaves in the dregs of our economic cup that says…
Considering the number of hours we all clock up at work, we often spend more time with our co-workers than we do our own families. As this c…
Dear Aunty B, One of our staff is having an affair with someone in our office. I want to point this out to him but I don’t know for sure and…
Not quite six days, but this week I’ve been in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne then home to Sydney, last week Hobart and next week I go to Adelai…
