People

Kindly exclude me from your meeting: Why more participants equals less productivity

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Leadership

In a world more eager to hear diverse perspectives, inclusion is inherently good. But like everything, overdoing it comes at a cost.

Three ways this business found success with a four-day work week

Amantha Imber

12 April 2022

Inventium was able to increase employee engagement, reduce stress and meet financial targets ahead of time by moving to a four-day work week. Here's how.

Three emerging trends in a post-pandemic hybrid work era

John L Hopkins and Anne Bardoel

5 April 2022

A national study of working arrangements in Australia shows post-pandemic office life is going to be dramatically different to what existed before.

Employees want to like the company they work for. Here’s how to improve their experience

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Leadership

Employees have begun looking beyond material offerings and assessing how they feel about the company they work for — and that requires a different approach.

The one-day refund: Four steps to regaining precious time

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Strategy

Imagine if you had a whole extra day per week available to you, what would you decide to do with it? 

Larks, owls and middle birds: How to structure your day based on your chronotype

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Inspiration

Structuring your work day according to whether you fit the lark, owl or middle bird chronotype helps lead to peak performance.

End the Zoom gloom: Five ways to make meetings better in 2022

Carl Gough

15 February 2022

Videos off. Videos on but openly ignoring the meeting underway. Turning up late. Leaving abruptly. It’s time to brush up on modern meeting manners!

Is now the time for Australia to embrace the four-day work week?

John Quiggin

14 February 2022

A four-day work week is well within the realm of economic feasibility. But how much, if anything, would it cost in terms of lost production and lower wages?

Why investing in clean indoor air would give us lasting benefits beyond the pandemic

Peter Martin

10 February 2022

If performance and education matter we ought to be treating clean air as an investment in productivity, over and above its undoubted benefit in containing the spread of COVID-19.

A 10-step strategy to making meetings more productive

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Leadership

This book extract from FlexAbility: How high achievers beat burnout and find freedom in an overworked world explores why businesses need to stop the "meeting madness".