Author name: Karlie Cremin

We’ve all seen footage of the long queues of newly-unemployed people outside Centrelink, but a paradox of the coronavirus pandemic is that some industries and businesses suddenly find themselves requiring a lot more employees. Examples include the obvious one of health care, as well as supermarkets, call centres, home delivery services, online shopping services, security […]

About three months have passed since the news of a new, deadly, and highly contagious disease began to infiltrate the media. Friends were gathering at the pub and laughing about the senseless panic buying of toilet paper, while work meetings were beginning with a comical round of elbow bumping in replacement of the handshake. Cut

We are amidst the most unsettling and unpredictable global crisis that the majority of us have ever seen. With Government officials, medical professionals, and virtually everyone on Twitter telling us to #stayhome, those of us who can work from home, are, and businesses are having to adapt to managing an entire team of remote workers

The last two weeks have seen some Australians going into a real buying frenzy of essential items from toilet paper, canned food to pasta. There’s even reports of employees going to the lengths of stealing toilet paper supplies. What has the world come to? There is a real ‘Armageddon’ feel about this. A Canadian doctor

The case for the four day work week is having a shift in momentum. A topic that not long ago was met with a scoff and an eye-rolling nod to millennial entitlement is being taken increasingly seriously, with former nay-sayers coming around to the idea that less really could be more. In 2018, a New

The devastating impact of the bushfires across Australia will be felt for a long time to come, as Governments and other organisations now address the tasks of assisting people and communities to recover and review the causes and consequences of the fires. For HR practitioners, among the challenges were to maintain contact with employees and