Workplace

WeWork joins the likes of Bed Bath & Beyond and SVB Financial as headlines of the busiest year for corporate bankruptcies since 2020.

These multinational corporations offer flexible work schedules, generous parental leave benefits, career advancement opportunities and more.

In-person mandates are up. Bosses have more power to enforce face time. Yet after years of remote work, the role of the office has fundamentally changed, prompting a vast rethinking of what the ‘workplace’ is really for.

Australians have spent the past few years “going from one disaster to the next”, leading to extreme fatigue, adrenal fatigue, and, in many cases, burnout. Under new Federal Government laws, employers are legally responsible for supporting employee psycho-social well-being. But with poor mental health costing the Australian economy between $12.2 billion and $22.5 billion, there is much more work to be done.

Atlassian—the team collaboration software company cofounded by Mike Cannon-Brookes—said Thursday it has agreed to buy video messaging platform Loom for $975 million, betting more work will be done remotely in the future.

The rapid ascent of generative AI has become a global sensation, largely fueled by the popularity of widely available large language models (LLM) powered by 3rd party data. However, amidst this buzz, generative AI has the opportunity to move beyond the hype and into widespread production across the enterprise.

Jamie Dimon also said AI would “of course” kill jobs, but noted that technology always does.

Business Group Director for Modern Work and Surface at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, Jane Mackerell, thinks leaders can key into the work culture of tomorrow by paying attention to these three buzzy phrases.

If you are a CEO or business founder, there’s a shiny (if not-so-new) KPI on your scorecard list – and it could unseat your future if not embraced well and managed with gusto. It is AI, or Artificial Intelligence.

The hardware provider behind the FIFA Women’s World Cup, a US-founded hotel chain with 14 local outposts, and a homegrown Aussie tech unicorn have all made the list.