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New ways to approach and resolve conflict
TED Radio Hour, NPR, 06 August 2021This episode of TED Radio Hour examines how conflict is a part of life. The panel discuss how reaching resolutions have become harder than ever, and how people can harness creative ways of approaching personal and professional conflict...
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SPC becomes first Australian company to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for all staff
Madeleine Morris, ABC News, 05 August 2021Fruit and vegetable processor SPC has become the first Australian company to mandate vaccines for all onsite staff and visitors. The Shepparton-based cannery wants all its 450 onsite workers to be fully vaccinated by November, promising onsite workers will receive paid vaccination leave and up to two days of special leave to recover....
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How remote work raises the risks of cyberattacks
Bryan Walsh, Axios, 05 August 2021It is no coincidence that the pandemic-driven shift to remote work has been accompanied by a rise in cyberattacks on corporations. With remote work likely to stay - especially with the surging Delta variant - companies need to prioritise and retool cyber-defence. Between 2019 and 2020, ransomware cyber-attacks rose by 62 per cent worldwide and...
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Facebook boots NYU disinformation researchers off its platform and critics cry foul
Shannon Bond, NPR, 04 August 2021Facebook has blocked a team of New York University (NYU) researchers studying political ads and COVID misinformation from accessing its site, a move that critics say is meant to silence research that makes the company look bad. The researchers from the NYU Ad Observatory launched a tool last year to collect data about the political ads...
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Why younger workers want hybrid work the most
Lexi McMenamin, BBC, 03 August 2021The youngest employees in the workforce are being pulled in two different directions. On one hand, Gen Z leads the pack: they’re digital natives who seamlessly understand new productivity tools and processes. However, as some workers push to stay entirely remote for good, Gen Z is not leading the charge - instead, they’re among those looking...
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The power of everyday routines to boost your work life
This Working Life Podcast, ABC, 02 August 2021This episode of This Working Life explores why we need routines and rituals, how to create them, and how they can improve your work ethic, output and satisfaction...
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Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over COVID-19 misinformation
Amanda Meade, The Guardian, 01 August 2021Sky News Australia has been banned from uploading content to YouTube for seven days after violating its medical misinformation policies by posting numerous videos which denied the existence of COVID-19, or encouraged people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. The YouTube channel has grown in two years from 70,000 subscribers to 1.85...
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More US companies tie CEO pay to diversity metrics
Ross Kerber, Reuters, 28 July 2021A new study finds corporate diversity has become the most common type of sustainability metric used to inform executive pay as companies look to increase the share of women and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in their workforces. Among 61 metrics used by Fortune 100 companies to tie executive pay to environmental,...
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New global survey finds COVID-19 is intensifying sustainable development challenges, but leading businesses are stepping up
Globescan, 28 July 2021New research from GlobeScan and the SustainAbility Institute by ERM finds that 40 per cent of sustainability experts believe the pandemic will increase poverty and inequality, with one-third believing COVID-19 will lead to more attention on the environment. Experts are more optimistic that the pandemic will not derail action...
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How tech won the pandemic and now may never lose
David Streitfeld, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2021Big tech continues to flourish during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the combined stock market valuation of Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook totalling more than $10 trillion – roughly the size of the entire U.S. stock market in 2002. Perhaps the only threat to big tech's triumph now is government...
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