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‘Redefine, rethink, reimagine’: The five work models emerging from the pandemic
Matt Wade & Anna Patty, The Sydney Morning Herald, 01 November 2021Swinburne University of Technology researchers John Hopkins and Anne Bardoel have surveyed Australian businesses about their plans and identified the emergence of five distinct employment models: fixed frequency and days at the office; fixed frequency at the office but flexibility in days chosen; workers’ choice; remote work only; and office...
socio political environment
Ideas: Let them flow
This Working Life Podcast, ABC, 01 November 2021In this episode of the This Working Life podcast heads of the design school at Stanford University, Perry Klebahn and Jeremy Utley, discuss how new thinking is dependent on the quantity not quality of ideas. They also investigate how ideas can flow and flourish with routine practice...
socio political environment
Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman on business as a force for good
McKinsey & Company, McKinsey & Company, 01 November 2021Paul Polman, the cofounder and chair of IMAGINE and former CEO of Unilever, and co-author Andrew Winston, a sustainable-business guru, argue in an interview that companies must become “net positive” by giving more to the world than they take to deliver the scale of change and transformation the world urgently needs...
socio political environment
Is a work-life balance possible at the top?
The Economist Asks Podcast, The Economist, 29 October 2021In this episode of The Economist Asks podcast, Indra Nooyi, former chief executive of PepsiCo and first South Asian woman to lead a Fortune 500 firm, discusses how she balanced family commitments with leading a Fortune 500 company. She also shares her lessons on mixing business with politics, how top companies should respond to...
measurement
Consumers are wise to ‘woke washing’ but truly ‘transformative branding’ can still make a difference
Amanda Spry, Bernardo Figueiredo, Jessica Vredenburg, Joya Kemper & Lauren Gurrieri, The Conversation, 27 October 2021Businesses have a chequered history when it comes to engaging with societal problems, from self-serving “box ticking” corporate practices under the guise of social responsibility to shifting responsibility to consumers to make ethical choices. More recently, “woke washing” has seen brands promoting social issues without taking meaningful...
corporate narrative
stakeholder
A2 milk ‘doubling down’ with new China strategy despite disruptions and economic worries
Dominic Powell, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 2021The chief executive of beleaguered milk and infant formula producer A2 Milk said the company will double down on its China aspirations despite major uncertainties over future growth amid changing consumer preferences and economic instability. David Bortolussi, who stepped into the role of A2’s head in February this year, was confident it could...
socio political environment
Tesla is now worth more than US$1 trillion
Christ Isidore, CNN Business, 26 October 2021Tesla has become the sixth company in US history to be worth $1 trillion (all are US-based except the Saudi Arabian state-owned Aramco oil entity). Tesla is the second fastest company to do so, reaching the US$1 trillion mark just more than 12 years after its 2010 initial public offering. Shares rose more than 12 per cent on Monday to close at...
socio political environment
corporate responsibility
In the ocean’s worth of new Facebook revelations, here are some of the most important drops
Joshua Benton, NiemanLab, 25 October 2021Joshua Benton synthesises various stories about the wall of public enquiries, revelations, accusations, and looming regulation for Facebook globally. The issues: the company’s role in the January 6 US Capitol insurrection in 2021, challenge to social media content moderation, the flight of younger people away from Instagram, and Apple's threat...
socio political environment
Chinese activists lament the end of the last major US social media platform in China: LinkedIn unlinked
Joyce Cheng, ABC News, 22 October 2021LinkedIn will shut down in China later this year after increased monitoring and censorship from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It will be replaced by a new platform, InJobs, which only allows career networking. LinkedIn is the last major US social media platform in China, and activists say "the CCP has been using the great firewall...
socio political environment
Chinese activists lament the end of the last major US social media platform in China: LinkedIn unlinked
Joyce Cheng, ABC News, 22 October 2021LinkedIn will shut down in China later this year after increased monitoring and censorship from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It will be replaced by a new platform, InJobs, which only allows career networking. LinkedIn is the last major US social media platform in China, and activists say "the CCP has been using the great firewall...
socio political environment
advocacy