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Business Briefing: are our standards dropping in the workplace?

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation
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Our workplaces are becoming less formal as the decor resembles what we have at home, companies relax dress codes, and technology makes it possible to work from anywhere.

But the old formality had some advantages, says Libby Sander from Bond University. For example,...

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Four outdated assumptions prevent progress on affordable housing – to everyone's cost

  • Written by: Fiona McKenzie, Co-Founder and Director of Strategy, Australian Futures Project, La Trobe University
imageIt is not well appreciated that the requirements of affordable housing are related to – but not the same as – those for housing affordability.AAP/Sam Mooy

Housing influences everything from productivity and employment through to intergenerational poverty and childhood education. Yet outdated concepts and thinking are shaping...

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Student employment and inflexible university policies drive online drop out

  • Written by: Steven Greenland, Professor in Marketing, Charles Darwin University
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Employment is the main reason students drop out of online degree courses, our new research shows. This is despite claims that online university programs offer greater flexibility to workers and employers who want to up-skill.

Most online dropouts occur due to...

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  1. Publish and don’t perish – how to keep rare species' data away from poachers
  2. Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy
  3. Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'
  4. The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy
  5. Grattan on Friday: Hanson's 'outsider' politics a challenge for Turnbull as he sits in 'sensible centre'
  6. Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey
  7. Platform co-ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives
  8. The Conversation attends Global Fact 4, with fact-checkers from around the world
  9. How a special forces 'band of brothers' culture leads to civilian deaths in war
  10. Are Australia's native pigeons sitting ducks?
  11. The off-topic Conversation #128
  12. How people can best make the transition to cool future cities
  13. How to maintain the balance between boundaries and freedom in secondary school parenting
  14. Why you should eat a plant-based diet, but that doesn't mean being a vegetarian
  15. Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs
  16. Explainer: how Australia's military justice system works
  17. How empathy can make or break a troll
  18. Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance
  19. Network Ten's future is all about media power, not economics
  20. Can property survive the great climate transition?
  21. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  22. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  23. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
  24. How many people can Australia feed?
  25. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  26. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  27. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  28. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  29. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  30. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  31. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  32. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  33. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  34. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  35. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  36. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  37. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  38. What actually is a good city?
  39. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  40. How we change the organisms that infect us
  41. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  42. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  43. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  44. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  45. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  46. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  47. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  48. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  49. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  50. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?

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