by Anita Ziemer | Apr 16, 2020 | The world @work
I had never understood face mask wearing in public. To me, face masks indicated a cultural misunderstanding, a weird convention I couldn’t grasp. Were the wearers suggesting our pollution levels were up there with Shanghai’s, were we particularly foul mouthed, or...
by Anita Ziemer | Apr 14, 2020 | The world @work
Don’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s goneThey paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lot. Thanks Joni Mitchell I’m grateful this week. Enormously grateful to our Federal Government for the recently legislated JobKeeper initiative....
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 7, 2020 | Interchange Bench, The world @work
It was while waiting to cross at the lights on Spring Street last week, standing (suitably) apart from a couple on my walk home, when I overheard one say, “Things will really get bad when Bunnings closes.” I wanted to step closer and...
by Catherine DeVrye | Mar 31, 2020 | The world @work
Yes, we indeed live in unprecedented times – but haven’t there always been unprecedented times in human history? There is no room for corona complacency during this current medical and economic crisis. Yet, in spite of cancelled travel, cancelled conferences and...
by Candice Lewis | Mar 24, 2020 | Interchange Bench, The world @work
It’s 11.30am and you’ve checked your news feed one too many times this morning already. We feel your pain, away from work, under financial duress, trying to work out HR and OHS logistics around #WFH (working from home), realising perhaps there is a limit to how much...
