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No such thing as a secret scandal

Bad behaviour outside the workplace can have an impact within it.

Tom O'Neil: Getting through to robot recruiters

These days many recruitment agencies and organisations use some form of Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to handle job postings, applicant

Prices go up in NZ as inflation tops 1pc

Consumer prices rose at their fastest annual pace in two-and-a-half years as petrol got more expensive and house prices increased.

Budget deficit smaller than forecast

The New Zealand government's accounts recorded a smaller-than-forecast deficit in the first five months of the fiscal year.

Dow climbs to all-time record high

Wall Street rose, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 20,000 for the first time.

How bad is email for the environment?

Many researchers have looked into the carbon footprint of our tech habits.

Study finds women's work dress codes sexist

A UK study into workplace dress codes has found that women have been told to wear high heels, dye their hair or wear revealing outfits at the office.

Strange reason job application denied

A professor who spent three decades teaching and researching was turned down from a job because he lacked a high-school certificate.

Where has the money gone?

COMMENT: How can we combat these various forms of fraud? And how can we protect employees from risk and danger?

Inflation set to go up a gear

New Zealand inflation is set to move up into the Reserve Bank's 1 to 3 per cent range, but economists don't see it racing away just yet.

The Kiwi in the West Wing

Kiwi businessman Christopher Liddell will be a part of a powerful troika of advisers in the West Wing, empowered to deliver the new

20-hour work week way of the future?

Imagine only having to come into the office three days a week, with Monday and Friday spent at home...

Study finds widespread worker abuse

Dani Wright talks to Dr Christina Stringer about protecting the rights of those who don't feel they can protect themselves in the workplace.

'This is not a job for cry babies'

A fruit picking farm has copped flack on social media after a former worker revealed its harsh set of rules for backpackers.

Printing more money won't fix problems

What modern economics has going for it is that it is a formal, falsifiable theory.

Clouds amid the economic sunshine

COMMENT: The overall growth numbers look solid. But some of the details are not so encouraging, Brian Fallow writes.

Would you get naked for this job?

A cleaning company is offering £45 (NZ$77.40) an hour for women who are prepared to work naked.

How words can cost you your job

Former Saatchi & Saatchi chair Kevin Roberts quit after causing furor when he said women lacked 'vertical ambition'.