Karen Bentley, National Director of WESNET and WESNET Technology Safety Specialists Sarah Biordi (left) and Susan Swain (right) Trigger warning: Domestic and family violence content. One-in-three Australian women have experienced physical violence, and one-in-six sexual violence. On average, one woman every week is murdered in Australia at the hands of her partner or ex-partner. Domestic abuse experts are warning that the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s safety are only just beginning to be felt in Australia. As isolation restrictions
Colleen Maguire Australia Services Solution Strategy Lead, Microsoft I am definitely a “glass half full” person and although I have encountered many struggles through these unusual times from home schooling, caring for aged parents and just simply dealing with the stress of the unknown, I now find wondering if I want this new lifestyle to end? Absolutely it needs to end. But I don’t want my life to back to what I thought was “normal”. In reflecting over the last
How much time have you spent in the past year enhancing your workplace skills? According to the Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum, you should be spending around 25 days a year on professional learning activities, just to keep up with the rapid pace of change in the workplace – let alone get ahead of it! Fortunately, many organisations are recognising the critical importance of continuous learning and are investing in systems and programs to ‘upskill’ employees,
When the highly successful American businesswoman and HuffPost founder Arianna Huffington physically collapsed from exhaustion, she turned the experience into a wake-up call about the need for better work-life balance. Recognising the link between well-being and performance, she went on to establish a Thrive Global, a platform for raising awareness about managing stress and preventing burnout. Although most of us don’t deal with the demands faced by a high-profile business celebrity like Arianna Huffington, we can certainly relate to the difficulties of juggling work