Of course we all know that when a workplace is reducing staff things can get stressful - but we don't always realise how a business expanding can be difficult for us too.

Large employers in the US are relaxing dress codes to keep employees from jumping ship

Chorus has won the supreme award at the Aon Hewitt Best of the Best awards in Sydney this week.

New research recommends desk-based office workers spend at least two hours of their working day standing or moving, gradually progressing to four hours.

There's nothing professional about profanity. But it's often dismissed when it comes from "intense" workers.

The advantage of face-to-face meetings is that it requires that the other person really "be there" or be engaged.

Winter marks the beginning of cold and flu season for many Kiwis. In offices where people work in close proximity a cold can soon do the rounds and bring staff levels way down.

Studies have shown that while an occasional marathon can spur production, a steady diet of long days has the opposite effect.

As it warms up in the US and workers are challenged with what to wear, the Career Coach outlines what's appropriate.

Karla L. Miller answers a reader question about how to deal with a boss and his interpreter.

Is there any way it would be acceptable to ask a hiring manager for the salary range before agreeing to an interview?

Workers around the globe have been finding it harder to juggle the demands of work and the rest of life in the past five years, a new report shows.

A union has criticised plans to drug test workers for kava as discriminatory - but the company involved has categorically denied the claim.

Karla L. Miller gives advice to a reader on how to handle undeserved blame in the workplace.

Celebrations are planned this evening after McDonald's and Unite Union reached an agreement to end "zero hour" contracts.

Workers at the fast-food chain will be guaranteed 80 per cent of the average hours worked over a three-month period.

Fast-food giant McDonald's has walked away from negotiations aimed at scrapping controversial zero hour contracts.

When it comes to the workplace gender diversity divide, opinions are mixed. Is progress being made? Or is it just more of the same?

McDonald's has proposed a return to mediation over the union campaign to end "zero-hours" contracts in the fast food industry.

About 180 fast-food workers and supporters marched up and down Auckland’s Queen St at lunchtime to demand an end to “zero-hours” contracts.

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Woodhouse is keen to see some of the harshest contracts outlawed.

The most punitive aspects of zero-hour contracts will be banned, the Government says.

Strikes and protests at McDonald's will go ahead this week after a union rejected a new employment offer from the fast food giant.

Karla L. Miller's advice to a reader on how to handle a hostile takeover situation.

If you're miserable in the workplace, take solace in the fact that you've got a lot of company.

Older workers who lose their jobs spend longer periods out of work, and if they find other jobs, they tend to pay less than the ones they left.

You are not alone if you forgot what you were told 10 minutes ago. Although there may be many causes for short-term memory loss, one of them can be workplace stress.