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Goodman Property boosts profit 72pc
Giant listed landlord Goodman Property Trust pushed up annual after-tax profit 72.1 per cent, making $134.1 million in the year to March 31.

Online tests screen job seekers
Web-based tests have become a key gateway to landing a job, a potent screening tool that can effectively bump a CV to the top of a manager's pile.

Tips for rising women leaders
Advice for women in leadership from Brenda Freeman of DreamWorks Animation.

Dealing with slack colleagues
Karla L. Miller gives advice on navigating the modern workplace

Q&A: Best workplace manners
Career Coach Joyce E.A. Russell went online last week to take questions on etiquette in the workplace.

Doctor taken from surgery
A doctor training to be an anaesthetist has been censured after she was escorted out of an operating theatre when alcohol was smelled on her breath.

Carter Holt pursued over leaky schools
The Ministry of Education will continue to pursue a leaky schools lawsuit against Carter Holt Harvey after it failed in an attempt to have the claim quashed.

Dealing with bad co-workers
The Career Coach, Joyce E.A. Russell, answers questions from readers about how to handle co-workers' annoying habits.

Man dies after Speight's lift shaft fall
A man injured in a fall at Speight's Brewery earlier this week has died.

Fewer workers stoned on the job
Fewer workers are being caught on drugs, despite workplace testing becoming more prevalent, latest figures show.

The cubicle for noisy offices
A New Zealand company reckons it has come up with the answer for frustrated workers trying to focus on the task at hand.

Working mums suffer double guilt
Researchers have found that working mothers agonise they are bad mums because they work and bad employees because they have a family.

Shelley Bridgeman: Is teamwork overrated?
Groups and teamwork have long been talked up but they may repel anyone with an ounce of creativity, writes Shelley Bridgeman.

Most Kiwis happy with their job
About three in four Kiwi workers are happy in their jobs, with those in Gisborne being the most content, new employment research shows.

Charges over workplace death in Napier
Charges have been laid in relation to the death of a Hawkes Bay man at a building site after he was struck by a steel beam earlier this year.

Different generations, same jobs
Workers from different generations want largely the same things from their ideal job, a new study has found.

Fonterra HQ - first glimpse
Listed landlord Goodman Property Trust has provided the first glimpse of Fonterra's new headquarters and announced it will own the building in Auckland's Viaduct area.

War against workplace killers
Ten days before Jason Gibson died, he visited his parents at their Christchurch home.

Boss rightly fired over texts - ERA
A manager who texted and called a young female employee asking her to go to his house, even after she rejected his advances, was rightly fired, the ERA has found.