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Feeling underqualified can be a superpower (or a potential trap)

New research finds that feeling underqualified can help drive performance or toxic behaviour – depending on one psychological factor

Business & Economics

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Analysis

The cloud is made of concrete

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a software tool. It has become the world’s most demanding construction client – with some concerning implications

Politics & Society

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Research

Discrimination by recruitment algorithms is a real problem

As the use by employers of AI to screen job applicants grows, there are serious risks of discrimination against women, older applicants and minority groups. Should it be banned until it is regulated?

Sciences & Technology

When it comes to jobs, AI does not like parents

New research finds that AI doesn’t just discriminate against women in the workforce – but also has a problem with parents

Business & Economics

A sustainable solution to Australia’s engineering skills shortage

To solve the skills shortage for good, we need to inspire a stronger connection with engineering

Business & Economics

The rise and rise of job insecurity

Blue collar workers were the winners in a COVID-19 job market that saw the biggest rise in job insecurity in two decades, finds the annual HILDA survey

Politics & Society

Reimagining age equality at work

There’s an ambivalence in age discrimination law. Now, age equality needs a voice to ensure a more equal future in the workplace

Education

Crafting your work to increase job satisfaction

By enabling staff to take greater control over their work while meeting company goals, job crafting helps drive greater employee engagement, wellbeing and retention

Sciences & Technology

How working away is changing home

New research shows how Australian households cope when one partner works away from home for days or weeks at a time, revealing how people’s lives change and the effects on wellbeing

Business & Economics

JobSeeker and JobKeeper in post-COVID policies

What will happen to Australians receiving JobKeeper and JobSeeker? Now is the time to look at fine-tuning these programs to help people, and the economy, bounce back