Yesterday
Journalist Damon Kitney’s reputation rehab
Clients of spinner (and Kitney employer) Lahra Carey have a curious habit of showing up in the journalist’s softball profiles for “The Australian”.
US jobless claims drop to lowest in almost two years
Continuing unemployment claims in the US fell by 32,000, signalling stability in the labour market despite the economic fallout from the war in Iran.
This Month
NAB to cut 170 jobs in business division, add international roles
The bank’s Australian business division is the latest to be hit by consolidation as it adds hundreds of jobs in India and Vietnam.
Sacking staff for AI is losing its stigma. What is our plan?
A sector long viewed as a future-proof career option has been the first to publicly blame the technology for big redundancy rounds.
A 4-point national plan to save us from the AI apocalypse
Rome didn’t fall because its engineers miscalculated the tensile strength of aqueducts. Countries fail when they cannot manage social, political or economic change.
Jobless rate forecast to rise further as cost of living bites
A rise in the share of Australians with a job or looking for one pushed the unemployment rate up in February.
Will LinkedIn’s #OpenToWork banner make you look desperate?
Cheerful stickers indicating labour market availability are getting more common as job openings become scarcer.
Tech job cuts are about share prices not AI replacing humans
CEOs have a big incentive to characterise job cuts as being all about artificial intelligence because investors might then reward them with a share price boost.
Poaching, wage rises to hit strata as apartments boom
There’s a pick-up in new apartments coming, but it won’t last. Even so, it will add to staffing pressure in a sector already struggling to meet demands on it.
CBA, Westpac chiefs warn society must be brought along for the AI ride
Matt Comyn and Anthony Miller know their institutions stand to benefit hugely from effective AI deployment, but are worried about the sector’s “PR problem”.
Tata Consultancy chief bets on data centres to navigate AI disruption
Tata Consultancy Services is investing in data centres as part of a plan to reposition the business for the artificial intelligence revolution.
Why being close to the boss will (eventually) backfire
Those in the corporate world, who boast of being friends with the boss, are a protected species, allowed to get away with murder – until they aren’t.
How to live a better life, according to Esther Perel
In a society that feels ever more fractured, the famed psychotherapist and podcaster believes that simply connecting has become a radical act of resistance.
4 factors that make you most susceptible to the white-collar ‘wipeout’
An education used to be seen as insulation from workforce disruption, now it might be the thing that proves your undoing.
The 20 minutes inside Atlassian that will reverberate across Australia
The company is uniquely exposed to AI disruption. But Mike Cannon-Brookes just explained why every business (and its workers) can be upended by this revolution.
Mike Cannon-Brookes announces Atlassian layoffs
In a message to staff, Atlassian's co-founder and chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes tried to explain why ten per cent of them were no longer needed.
White-collar professionals are leading the climb in unemployment rate
The rise in unemployment since 2022 has been mostly a white-collar phenomenon, but it’s too early to sound the alarm bells on AI as the reason.
KPMG executive assistants get the overseas trip from hell
It’s hard to pick whether the destination or the purpose of the trip is worse.
Runners and riders for AusSuper’s most important job
The $410 billion fund may be hard-pushed to find a local candidate with experience with the size and sheer diversity of its investment pool.
This CEO once had to make herself redundant
Early in her career, Momentum Energy chief Lisa Chiba landed her dream job. But the role wasn’t what she thought it would be.
