News

Uber hit with $81m payroll tax bill after High Court loss

Uber hit with $81m payroll tax bill after High Court loss

High Court rules rideshare driver fares are wages under NSW law, leaving Uber with a massive bill and contractor models under scrutiny

Fake job interview behind $9bn Binance heist puts hiring on notice

North Korean hackers posed as recruiters to breach the crypto exchange, exposing recruitment fraud risks for HR leaders

Fake job interview behind $9bn Binance heist puts hiring on notice

Canva job cuts affect 1,271 roles in first redundancy round

Melanie Perkins says the design giant must ‘refound’ itself, as a restructure shifts teams to Sydney and strips out management layers

Canva job cuts affect 1,271 roles in first redundancy round

Shadow AI slipping past governance despite bigger budgets

One in five firms hit by security incident from shadow AI: report

Shadow AI slipping past governance despite bigger budgets

Premium

The deferred Australian dream - how HR can close the gap

The deferred Australian dream - how HR can close the gap

New research shows where financial strain sits and which benefits can help bring goals back into view

Transformation

AI's productivity payoff is real but narrow. The bigger jobs test may come with the next downturn

AI's productivity payoff is real but narrow. The bigger jobs test may come with the next downturn

Output per worker is climbing fast in a few AI-heavy U.S. industries while their payrolls shrink. Goldman Sachs research suggests the wider shakeout tends to wait for a recession

Bank job cuts: why Australia’s lenders keep reaching for the axe

Bank job cuts: why Australia’s lenders keep reaching for the axe

Experts warn Australian banks are losing institutional knowledge and trust as restructures outpace strategic workforce planning

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From Skill to Strategy: Embedding Storytelling at Scale

From Skill to Strategy: Embedding Storytelling at Scale

By moving beyond metrics, one organisation discovered the stories that truly drive customer behaviour

Employment Law

Trainee teacher loses $3.9m discrimination claim over staffroom blowup

He called them hypocrites, told one to "get on a plane" - then sought millions

No pay slips, no records, no super: accounting firm cops $109K in penalties

The director hid his income and his house - the court found both

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