Has the pandemic made you rethink your career or deeply question the role of work in your life? If so, you're not alone.
Here comes the Great Resignation. Why millions of employees could quit their jobs post-pandemic
Break out the lifeboats and prepare for a river of crocodile tears in the next few months as we gear up for a federal election.
It has become something of a ritual. Every three years, housing suddenly becomes a red-hot political issue.
Why the Reserve Bank and government are in no mood to rein in property prices in booming market
Finding the right work-life balance is by no means a new issue in our society. But the tension between the two has been heightened by the pandemic, with workers increasingly dwelling over the nature of their work, its meaning and purpose, and how these affect their quality of life.
Studies suggest people are leaving or planning to leave their employers in record numbers in 2021 – a “great resignation” that appears to have been precipitated by these reflections. But if we’re all reconsidering where and how work slots into our lives, what should we be aiming at?
Work-life balance: what really makes us happy might surprise you
The tax office is ramping up its crackdown on companies using legal professional privilege to avoid scrutiny of their tax affairs, revealing a tough draft policy that would target the big four consulting firms.
It comes as the ATO wages a landmark court case against PwC in an attempt to gain access to swaths of documents related to the firm’s work for meat production giant JBS over which it has – allegedly incorrectly – claimed privilege.
According to the ATO, dozens of audits of major multinationals have been interrupted by ”reckless or baseless [privilege] claims in an attempt to withhold facts and evidence from the commissioner” in recent years.
But the legal industry’s premier member body, the Law Council of Australia, has already slammed the draft proposals as “overreaching” and pledged to push back on “incursions against privilege”.
Big four consultancies targeted by ATO draft legal privilege reform
How our culture and our government gave too much power to Facebook.
Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform’s ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact
Source: ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-rebukes-wsj-over-investigation-on-the-platforms-ability-to-harm-toxic-impact/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
Massive Troll Farms Revealed to Be Operating on Facebook
Source: Tech.co
https://tech.co/news/troll-farms-on-facebook
A report has found that troll farms, dedicated to peddling misinformation, were able to reach over 100 million Americans.
Speaker, Dorothea Salo (who is a librarian) – How Do We Not Be Facebook? University of Wisconsin-Superior
Les plans to turn his country pub into a haven for creative people
Only half of the people who lost jobs during COVID are going back to work Business Insider
COVID-19 Has Killed About As Many Americans As The 1918-19 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Landlords Use Secret Algorithms to Screen Potential Tenants. Find Out What They’ve Said About You. Pro Publica
Amazon’s AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers for Mistakes They Didn’t Make Vice
The Rise of Occupy Wall Street: The Movement Moment That Revived The U.S. Left Independent
The Occupy Wall Street spirit is alive and kicking on Reddit and other social-media platforms MarketWatch
Building a Vision of the Good Life Monthly Review
Andrew Marnell, 41, who resides in the Beverly Grove neighborhood, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of money laundering.
Saturday’s good reading and listening for the weekend
What people in other forums are saying about public policy