Work Life
JUNE 18, 2025
Fast Company recently posed the question: “Why isn’t your workplace wellness program reducing stress?” The answer, as the article rightly pointed out, isn’t about bad intentions—it’s about bad execution. Most wellness initiatives are still treating symptoms, not causes. But we need to go even deeper. Workplace wellness isn’t failing because it’s frivolous.
Workplace Insight
JUNE 18, 2025
The majority of Australian employees now work from home at least part of the week, with hybrid working becoming embedded in organisational culture, according to a new report from the University of Melbourne and Western Sydney University. The study, Navigating the Future of Working from Home in Australia , is based on survey data collected in late 2023 and charts how working patterns have changed in the years following the pandemic.
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OE Cam
JUNE 18, 2025
What goes into writing a successful pan-European whitepaper? Jodie Hughes shares her insights from the SPACE collaboration event exploring the challenges of navigating AI-driven change. Introducing a NEW whitepaper: navigating AI-driven change Over the past nine months, we’ve been co-authoring an exciting new whitepaper with colleagues across our SPACE network – our goal is to create a practical guide for leaders navigating AI-driven change. ( SPACE Consultants is a Strategic Practice Alliance o
Success
JUNE 18, 2025
The shift towards sustainability is impacting businesses in every industry. No matter what your business focus is, sustainable leadership is something to think about. Many consumers, employees and investors are seeking companies that prioritize sustainable and eco-friendly practices. This desire for sustainability isn’t just about reducing your carbon footprint or recycling.
Speaker: Chester Santos
Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform
Yarooms
JUNE 18, 2025
We’re proud to share that YAROOMS has been featured among GetApp’s Category Leaders for Visitor Management – a recognition that highlights the strength, usability, and customer satisfaction of our Visitor Management System.
Mad in America
JUNE 18, 2025
I t was a Friday afternoon at the animal hospital where I worked part-time during grad school. A woman named Anne came in to pick up food for her cat. As I rang her through, I asked how she was doing. She looked down, then up, and I saw tears in her eyes. She told me her teenage daughter, Ellie, had just been admitted to the psychiatric hospital again.
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AdminDroid
JUNE 18, 2025
Client secrets might seem like a quick and easy way to authenticate applications, but they come with hidden risks. These secrets are often stored in plain text, hardcoded in scripts, or forgotten entirely, turning into silent security risks waiting to be exploited. With attackers constantly scanning for exposed credentials, relying on client secrets is like locking your front door but leaving the key under the welcome mat.
Attendance Bot
JUNE 18, 2025
Managing schedules across multiple retail locations isn’t just about filling shifts—it’s about finding the sweet spot between what employees want and what the business needs. Operations managers know this tension all too well: some employees prefer early mornings, others want weekends off, and peak foot traffic doesn’t wait for anyone’s ideal schedule.
Wellness 360
JUNE 18, 2025
Imagine this: you are a top performer who was on fire—focused, unstoppable… until suddenly, they burned out. Their energy disappeared, and their focus was gone. Maybe they quit or just stopped caring. Sounds familiar? Burnout is expensive. And those generic “wellness” programs gathering dust aren’t helping. Real corporate wellness coaching is different—it’s a powerful, strategic tool that […] The post Why Corporate Wellness Coaching Is a Game Changer?
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
OP4, some orgs are hesitant on formal comp time policies because they worry things will still be busy when you take the comp time and they’ll be left short handed. We were able to work it out by having my team send me an email at the end of the week if they’ve worked over and how much (paper trail) and then they need to take that time within a month (by sending another email, preferably with a day or two of notice).
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Workplace Insight
JUNE 18, 2025
New research suggests that around one in ten full time employees working from home in the UK have taken on a side job, with a significant number managing their additional work during normal working hours for their main employer. The study, commissioned by the Global Payroll Alliance (GPA) , surveyed over 2,400 UK workers who work from home at least some of the time.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
LW#1: I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt by taking your question on face value: I’m going to assume you actually are genuinely concerned for your employee’s health and believe that they are killing themselves. And that’s tragic, of course! It’s awful to see someone we care for seemingly hurting themselves and wanting to help is a commendable impulse.
McKensey
JUNE 18, 2025
While your strategic goals may be the right ones, is the organization built to achieve them? New research reveals a dynamic system that creates value in the face of volatility.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to AnotherOne. I’m a bookkeeper. Here in Australia, there’s very distinct lines around what I’m allowed to do without further qualifications and licensing. I’m not licensed to do income tax returns at all, I can do quarterly sales tax reporting (Business Activity Statements) to the tax office only under the supervision of someone licensed for that (BAS Agents), I cannot give financial advice at all.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Work Life
JUNE 18, 2025
As the CEO of Patagonia, Rose Marcario stood out as one of the most outspoken voices in business against President Donald Trump during his first term. Under her leadership, Patagonia even sued the Trump administration after he issued a proclamation to shrink public land in two national monuments in Utah. Now, in the midst of Trump’s second term, Marcario is no longer at the helm of the progressive outdoor apparel company, but she’s still taking a stand.
Success
JUNE 18, 2025
We often rely on data, analytics and strategic planning to make decisions. But what about gut instincts? Icelandic sustainability leader and former UN adviser Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir makes the case for leaning into one of our most powerful tools in her new book, InnSæi: Heal, Revive and Reset With the Icelandic Art of Intuition. “Innsæi [pronounced in-sigh-ay] is this beautiful Icelandic word, and you know how words can just be a universe in themselves,” Gunnsteinsdóttir says.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to Calamity Janine. That’s a really, really good point! If they sincerely feel the employee is hurting themselves, the solution is to ensure they can access healthcare!
McKensey
JUNE 18, 2025
In a disrupted world, public sector leadership is getting harder. New McKinsey research shows how excellent leaders are rising to the challenge: They make purpose their engine and character their compass.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to Summary ftw. If your resume format is more difficult to understand, many HMs will just dump it in the trash rather than take extra time and effort. You want to make it easier for them to see what you bring, not make them think from the start that you are difficult.
Work Life
JUNE 18, 2025
In 2014, five years before Dana Nessel became the attorney general of Michigan—back when she was still running her own law firm—she took on a pivotal case challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. The case put her in direct opposition to her predecessor and attorney general at the time, Bill Schuette, who she says fought “tooth and nail” to uphold the state law.
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JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to ACH. Fun fact: here in Australia, people who are employed by a charity organisation (which most churches are) are either included in the Award (set of rules around employment and minimum standards) for their industry (eg aged care) or their profession (eg accountant) and if they’re not covered by an industry or profession Award then they’re covered under the Miscellaneous Award.
Work Life
JUNE 18, 2025
For the past five years, Fast Company published an annual list of 50 LGBTQ+ people who were shaping the worlds of business, tech, politics, and culture. As the list evolves—and given the continued attacks on queer and trans people—we’ve decided to change the format this year, looking more deeply into the contributions of eight notably impactful individuals.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to bamcheeks. Yup as a fat person it seems most people including me have had the thought that there is an arbitrary number (300 400 500, riding a scooter, waddling, etc) where the weight goes from cubby to a Big Deal and now must be dealt with. Furthermore and the real issue is some jerks think this is sound reasoning and applies to everyone else.
Work Life
JUNE 18, 2025
In Bowling Green, Kentucky, almost everyone agrees that historic buildings should be preserved amid developments. The same goes for having more restaurants open after 9 p.m.; investing in existing cultural institutions, such as museums; and hiring more therapists for public schools. Only a few proposals—like Bowling Green getting its own Dave & Buster’s—prove deeply polarizing.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to Summary ftw. This is interesting because I really don’t think this is an adversarial relationship. Employers want to make the right decision: they don’t want to be rejecting people for reasons like “wrote a bad CV” or “don’t like the layout”, they want to be rejecting them for reasons like “doesn’t have the relevant experience” and “isn’t aligned with our organisational mission” I think an application which
McKensey
JUNE 18, 2025
India, which played a limited role in the global arenas before, could now build on inherent endowments and large-scale sectors to excel in 18 high-growth, dynamic arenas—global and national—and generate up to $2 trillion in revenues by 2030.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to Free Meerkats. “Free money” is like free food: some people will take the absolute maximum for themselves every time, e.g. that letter from a receptionist where the employer gave everyone up to $20 to order in lunch. She said her coworkers always used the maximum $20 and didn’t tip the drivers.
McKensey
JUNE 18, 2025
Skip to main content Show me the value: A CIO view on how tech can shape the business June 18, 2025 | Interview Analog Devices CIO Nancy Avila charts a course to value through building trust between the business and IT. Technology has emerged as a critical priority for businesses, not just for IT. As a result, tech leadersâ responsibilities are expanding into areas outside IT , including customer experience, innovation, operations, procurement, and strategy.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to Old Bag (Coach, specifically). I’m assuming in most cases it’s not actually humans, but rather (bad) “AI detectors” that pick up on the em-dashes and raise the alarm? Could be wrong, though.
Work Life
JUNE 18, 2025
As anti-trans legislation and rhetoric continue to escalate across the U.S.—from sweeping state-level bans on gender-affirming care to renewed efforts to bar trans people from public life —trans nonbinary elite runner Nikki Hiltz and ACLU LGBTQ+ rights lawyer Chase Strangio find themselves at the intersection of justice and representation. Fresh off a historic Olympic run and record-breaking season in 2024, Hiltz has become one of the most visible trans athletes in the world.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to Free Meerkats. Outside the US (I know OP is in the US) per diems can be tricky from a tax perspective. I used to work for an organisation that used per diems for travel, which is unusual in the UK. The tax authorities got wind of it decided to audit the organisation to find out if the per diem amount represented a genuine amount. The audit was probably political (the government of the day didn’t care for this organisation).
Work Life
JUNE 18, 2025
In his first months in office, Trump unleashed a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives, including outlawing federally funded gender-affirming care and overseeing the National Park Service’s removal of trans and queer references from the Stonewall National Monument’s website. The hostility of the Trump administration toward the queer community—and in particular, transgender individuals—has created a fear felt both by LGBTQ+ individuals and the organizations that serve them.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 18, 2025
In reply to Summary ftw. I mean, yeah, you can frame it that way if you want — if you have one job available and twenty candidates, it is as much about rejecting the wrong nineteen as it is about identifying the best candidate for that role. You can’t not do that, even if you do it by lottery! What makes it moral or immoral is how transparent and respectful your process is and making sure you are using the best and most relevant possible criteria.
McKensey
JUNE 18, 2025
In her latest book, Maggie Smith explores ten carefully selected principles of creativity—including wonder, surprise, play, and hope—that can be applied to the art of writing and living.
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