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Seven signs your staff hate you
Hate’s a strong word, perhaps excessively harsh, but for many employees it’s a genuine emotion they feel towards their boss. Going to work is torture, not because they dislike their ...
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The way we work is insane
There’s a clever scene in the movie Con Air in which a psychopath talks fondly of famous murderers. Nicholas Cage eventually snaps, ...
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Job interviews: a waste of time?
In last week’s post about the insanity of how we work, a reader made a very ...
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Master the art of small talk
If such a thing as hell exists, I imagine it’s a place where sinners are abandoned forever in a room of their nightmare. In my case, it’d be an elevator ride – a never-ending ...
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Solved: free childcare!
How many Australian kids, according to the most recent census, have their grandparents looking after them on a regular basis? The figure is 937,000. And, if you were to glance at much of the media ...
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Work is making you numb
You can tell this is a world of ultra neo-liberalism when even the most heart-centred of topics are reduced to productivity and economics metrics.Take, for example, mental illness, which ...
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Is it your fault you're unhappy?
A reader on last week’s blog post made an interesting comment that really stood out: “Your employer is not responsible for your happiness. You are.” In response, a ...
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It's death by acronym
Just an FYI. Whether you work in a B2B or B2C environment, your KPIs and SLAs pretty much determine your ROI. My guess is you use HTML-based software, charge the GST, deal with HR and provide ...
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What do you sacrifice your ethics for?
If you were offered an amazing job, a rare opportunity or an awesome income, would you be willing to sacrifice your values and ethics to take it? Actually, let’s rephrase that question. ...
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Does your boss make you sick?
Many leaders, I find, underestimate the influence they have on their team. What they say and do every day determines whether their employees perform well or perform badly, love their job or hate ...
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Is music important at work?
“I need the radio, bloody right, I couldn’t face this place without it.”The place referred to in that sentence is a workplace and the owner of the sentiment is an ...
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Flexible work: that's so unfair
Flexibility in the workplace, such as reduced hours and working from home, is a welcome advancement, yes? Well, yeah, of course it is – especially if you’re one of those benefiting ...
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Is it OK to lie at work?
It’s estimated people tell 1.65 lies per day. But the study that determined that figure used self-reporting data, which basically means it represents only what people are happy to admit. We ...
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We need to talk about disability
The rate of unemployment for people with a disability is 7.1 per cent. You might think that’s not too bad, except that the unemployment rate doesn’t really tell you much. The more ...
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The two signs you're a workaholic
There’s never been an easier time to be a workaholic. If you’re so inclined, you have at your disposal a number of contraptions and factors to get you hooked. There’s the ...
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All the lonely people
There’s a curious trend happening in workplaces: they’re becoming depersonalised. It began with hot-desking, then it ramped up with work-from-home options, and now it’s really ...
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Time to down tools...and get sick
The Christmas holidays are almost here and for many people that means … illness. It’s officially known as leisure sickness, and it afflicts those whose body is shocked by the sudden ...
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Are you ready for the next GFC?
If you were to glance at the media in the past couple of weeks, you’d think another global financial crisis was imminent. The
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We love being dumb and dumber
"The word 'intellectual' has now almost become a term of abuse."That statement is a highlight from the best non-fiction book I read last year: What About Me? by Paul Verhaeghe, a ...
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Does your workplace resemble a kindy?
Here’s a sociological term I’ve only recently discovered: ‘the infantilisation of workers’. It essentially refers to employees who, rather than acting like the adults they ...
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