A self-diagnosed workaholic, Jeanette Russell knows that a real vacation requires her to completely unplug, it's also company policy.

Record numbers of $1m-plus house sale prices linked to growing applications for work in regions.

Business confidence extended its decline in the third quarter, plunging to its lowest level in more than four years.

A 50-year-old truck driver crushed and lacerated by metal beams while unloading his vehicle at a Hamilton factory remains in a serious but stable condition at Waikato Hospital this morning.

Fit, healthy Kiwis aren't working on farms because they don't want to. They want to go out on a Friday night and stay out until four.

"Bro culture" in many workplaces that pay men more than women means that one law student is entering the workforce with apprehension.

Bosses should stop encouraging employees to become leaders - and teach them how to be followers instead.

Turns out the millennial generation has some pretty high expectations from their employers.

Elon Musk is a notorious workaholic. As the head of SpaceX and Tesla has long made clear, he doesn't really need much vacation.

What is gossip? Friendly, jokey work banter and gossip are worlds apart. Here's a guide to telling the difference.

Are businesses placing less importance on university degrees?

Harvard research suggests women aren't in leadership positions because they just don't want the jobs as much as men do.

Businessman Michael Thompson argues he should be able to keep more than half of an $8 million payment the Supreme Court says is relationship property.

A decades-long employee of a transport firm will receive thousands in "distress compensation" after he was made redundant.

A foreign worker at a luxury Waikato resort narrowly escaped being crushed by a three-tonne tractor with faulty brakes.

This column highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced, and how this changed their lives forever.

People of a certain age and experience could well cut a career as an executive contractor - although the gig might not suit everyone.

Mike Pero's name still synonymous with the enterprise he founded.

According to Census data, people in some jobs are more likely than people in others to marry someone in the same field.

In March I received my permit to work in the US and my Green Card is imminent so I swung into job-searching mode in April.

An Auckland ferry crash that left more than a dozen people wounded was allegedly down to faulty technology and inadequately-trained staff.

Legal high godfather Matt Bowden's company must pay a former employee more than $85,000.

A chef who was accused of inappropriately touching a pizza cook in a Canterbury restaurant was fired after several staff members allegedly refused to work with him.

Cabinet Minister Paula Bennett has played to the political gallery by jettisoning the $88 million Chinese bid to buy Lochinver Station because it did not provide enough new jobs.

The family of a contractor seriously injured when a digger was hit by a train last year will receive $110,000 from KiwiRail in reparation.

A work accident in which a 300kg gate came off its track and fell on a man was the subject of a WorkSafe New Zealand prosecution yesterday.

Policymakers inevitably get things wrong from time to time, writes Brian Fallow. But if they are to learn from their mistakes, they first have to acknowledge that they are mistakes.

Are you interested in getting full and involved participation from your people? Instead of telling someone to do a task, ask them how they think it should be done.

Officials might investigate calls from the parents of a young forestry worker killed when a tree fell on him to overhaul the way workplace incidents are investigated.

Maori fulltime workers feel they have better work-life balance than workers in six other cultures globally, a new study has found.