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Are you planning to retire or “rewire”?

Increasingly, employees appear open to different ways of combining some paid work alongside increased leisure and/or family time, writes Kate Kearins.

When does “gossip” become “intel”?

What counts as gossip is a slippery notion. The key is not any set of objective criteria, but rather a shared agreement that a situation counts as gossip.

How to handle “double hatting”

Kate Kearins shares some of the tips she is finding helpful as she takes on “double hatting” - doing two big roles at the same time.

Having faith in spirituality at work

Professor Kate Kearins reflects on how spirituality, in all its diverse cultural, religious, and non-religious dimensions, can foster unity at work.

“Difficult” or “difference-making”?

AUT Business School Dean, Professor Kate Kearins, explores a central question: How to help turn difficult conversations into difference-making dialogues?

Newbies don’t know what they don’t know

The first 90 days on the job can be stressful, but there are practical ways for employers to help newcomers thrive, writes Helena Cooper-Thomas.

Office gossip: more than idle chatter

Though office gossip is traditionally frowned upon and branded as unproductive or even deviant, new research paints a more complex picture of gossip.

Making Return to Office (RTO) work

AUT Business School Professor Helena Cooper Thomas explores how strict return to office (RTO) policies may hinder talent attraction and retention.

Older workers and work-life balance

There is the temptation to treat all older workers as the same, but new research shows this is a mistake.

AI’s role in recruitment and retention

Lecturer in AUT’s Business School’s Management Paulette Brazzale questions the role AI plays in recruitment and retention rates.