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3 reasons a good handshake will help you at work
Why exactly do we feel the compulsion to shake hands when we're saying hello, making a deal, or burying hatchets?
Why exactly do we feel the compulsion to shake hands when we're saying hello, making a deal, or burying hatchets?
A 21-year-old needed hospital treatment after being bitten on the penis by a redback spider while sitting on the toilet in Sydney.
Women get more advice on how to negotiate than we probably need.
Being passionate about your job and having great colleagues isn't enough to lift the burden of having a bully in the office, new research shows.
People should be able to come home at the end of their working day. In New Zealand, that is less sure than in Australia or the United Kingdom.
A cleaner caught on a meat hook in a terrible workplace accident has lifted the lid on simmering tensions at the country's largest meat works.
Just four percent of S&P 500 CEOs are women. Only 19 percent of those companies' board members are women.
A well-run, on-target meeting is a key form of business communication. The key is good planning and follow through, writes Robyn Pearce.
COMMENT: What great places or organisations do you know that can benefit from our 'junk'?
COMMENT: No one wants to see a worker, colleague or friend hurt. No boss wants to have to tell a family member that their loved one is in hospital or worse still, won't be coming home ever again, writes Grant McDonald.
COMMENT: Robyn Pearce talks three ways to declutter your life.
The new Health and Safety at Work Act, which comes into force today, expressly provides for mental health issues in an increasingly stressed-out and competitive workplace, writes Mai Chen.
Forest owners could have been liable for fines of up to $3 million if worker Blair Palmer had been killed by a falling tree today rather than last week.
Learning new things in the workplace can contribute to a change in your career narrative, discovers Joanna Mathers
A Northland forestry worker didn't get to hospital for more than four hours after he was struck by a log and his distraught mother wants to know why.
Career Coach Joyce E.A. Russell offers tips on how to identify signs of workplace bullying and what you can do about it.
There is always room for new thinking and fresh ways to change things up. A couple of Labour's ideas around the future of work aren't half bad. I'm impressed.
For decades, companies have craved an alternative to top-down management. Yet moving beyond the corporate ladder has proved challenging.
Negative attitudes and perceptions of discrimination against part-time employees remain strong.
Boards need to move from being reactive to proactive, says Simon Arcus, chief executive of the Institute of Directors.
Being the lawyer who represented the NZ-based Pike River mine directors and chief executive following the 2010 tragedy, Stacey Shortall knows better than most the nuances and legislative minefields attached to health and safety issues
Better workplace relationships and risk reduction go hand in hand, a safety expert tells Helen Twose.
Law change means companies need to check their insurance policies, writes Tim McCready
600 to 900 Kiwis die from work-related diseases. The Health and Safety at Work Act aim to reduce workplace deaths and serious injuries by 25 per cent by 2020.
Women working for Amazon in the US earned 99.9 cents for every $1 men earned doing the same jobs in 2015, the company said.
COMMENT: Our feelings are our signpost, writes Robyn Pearce.
Workplace lying is a two-way street. The damaging top-down lies from management and the equally destructive bottom-up lies from staff.