As the downturn continues to cut a swathe through the Australian business community, more and more entrepreneurs and managers are facing up …
Time and again managers advise me that they have warned employees repeatedly for misconduct or poor performance before the final stroke of t…
Australia’s unemployment rate has jumped to 5.2% in February as the global financial crisis continues to tear through the economy. The…
Businesses that spy on their staff have been warned to make sure they have appropriate workplace surveillance guidelines in place or risk le…
Two of Australia’s top female leaders last night called for quotas to be introduced to ensure better representation of women in board rooms …
The global financial crisis appears almost certain to scuttle plans to introduce a paid maternity leave scheme in this year’s federal budget…
Will there be a recession that compares to, or is worse than, the Great Depression of 1930? Maybe there will not be 25% unemployment like …
One in three bosses place production efficiency ahead of safety or don’t care about work standards, according to a new survey commissioned b…
Few SmartCompany stories have prompted as much feedback as Friday’s Letter from a business owner to his employees. As we said last wee…
The pressure on business owners continues to build. The following letter is been emailed around among entrepreneur networks and has found it…
