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18% of Aussie corporates say taking parental leave damaged their career

We ran our annual parental leave survey last month and the gap between policy and reality is wide.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Apr 27, 2026

The mid-career squeeze nobody designed a policy for

Cocaine-positive workplace drug tests rose 45% in the March quarter and more than half of Australian consumers are cutting back on coffee and snacks.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Apr 20, 2026

Read the room

Your Teams chat is not private. It never was. We had several HR professionals confirmed that reviewing staff messages was a standard part of their role, and yes, people have lost their jobs over GIFs.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Apr 13, 2026

Pinned down

CBA gave a 45-year employee a marked pin and some flowers on their last day.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Apr 07, 2026

Managing down

Nearly 40% of the time people save using AI tools is spent fixing what the AI got wrong.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Mar 31, 2026

How to measure corporate stress?

Petrol prices are up over 30%, 936+ petrol stations across the country are reporting outages and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed to normal shipping. Meanwhile, most of corporate Australia is still swiping their Opal card and complaining about it in team meetings.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Mar 16, 2026

Face value

Performance reviews are back, and with them, the annual ritual of being blindsided by feedback that apparently existed all year but never made it into a single conversation. Your rating was never just about your work. It's the product of budget politics, rating curves, and opinions from people who couldn't pick you out of a lineup.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Mar 03, 2026

Microwave tuna

In this month’s edition, we count several thousand cheese toasties, cover some of the redundancies that made headlines in the past month, some office etiquette and the importance of the Acknowledgement of Country before meetings.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Feb 02, 2026

Corporate chefs

Not every event is for everyone, maybe morning run clubs aren’t your thing, or even a GYG brekky burrito. But helping kids who turn up to school without lunch might be.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Dec 01, 2025

Close colleagues

We are excited to let you in on a little product we have been building quietly in the background for the past few months.

The Aussie Corporate, +1

Nov 02, 2025

AusCorp Runs

Christmas is right around the corner and many Aussie Corporates are celebrating the festive season the exact same way - cost cutting.

Pick & Scroll News, +1

Sep 30, 2025

Find My Hotdesk

If you were caught up in an Optus outage, we want to hear from you. If you’ve been harassed by a colleague using CBA’s Navigate app, we also want to hear from you. And if you’re a supporter of Geelong, we are here for you.

Pick & Scroll News, +1

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