Friday, November 13, 2026

Business

Just 1 in 5 Australian workers feel engaged at work – and AI can’t fix that

The findings from Gallup, were shared by the management consultants APAC MD Claire de Carteret, during a discussion panel Lifting Productivity Without Burning Out Our People at The Cuppa Co-Lab in Sydney last week. Employee engagement across Australia and New...

Fintechs face an ‘existential threat’ that excludes them from the CGT fix for startups

In its submission to the Treasury consultation paper, known as the Innovative Business CGT Concession (IBCC) FinTech Australia argues that while the carve-out is designed to prevent startups becoming collateral damage from the government’s broader CGT reforms, it will...

Kiwi AI mapping data startup Hyades plants $910,000 pre-Seed

The raise was led by Icehouse Ventures, supported by K1W1 and angel investors Tony Falkenstein and Tim Brown. On top of the VC investment, Hyades also scored a NZ$400,000 New to R&D grant from the government. Hyades is developing a...

We tend to think detachment means becoming cold or disengaged, but occupational psychology uses the word differently: research finds that mentally switching off from...

Detachment has a chilly reputation. In ordinary conversation, it can sound like emotional distance, cynicism or a slow retreat from the people and tasks that once mattered. At work, the word can sound even worse, as if an employee...

Psychology suggests people who answer a casual text within seconds but take days to reply to an emotional one aren’t necessarily inconsistent or uncaring...

It is easy to read response time as character. Someone replies instantly to a meme, a logistics question, a restaurant link or a work aside. Then an emotional message arrives, and the same person goes quiet for two days....

Psychology says the gap between getting what you wanted and still wanting more is not necessarily a character flaw — it is hedonic adaptation,...

There is a particular embarrassment that can arrive after success. A person gets the job, the promotion, the funding, the house, the public proof, the number they used to think would settle something. For a while it does. Then...

In 1707, a British fleet returning from Gibraltar smashed into the rocks of the Scilly Isles and lost nearly 2,000 sailors in a single...

On the night of 22 October 1707, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell was leading twenty-one ships of the Royal Navy home from Gibraltar when his flagship HMS Association struck the Western Rocks of the Scilly Isles and went down in...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent decades studying thousands of people at the moments they felt most deeply alive, and their answers kept pointing to the same...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi did not find the deepest form of human aliveness where modern culture often tells us to look for it. Not in total comfort. Not in passive ease. Not in the blank relief of finally doing nothing. He found...

The American dream can be put in a number, and that number has halved: 9 in 10 children born in 1940 grew up to...

About 90 percent of American children born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents did at the same age. For children born in the 1980s, that share dropped to roughly 50 percent. That is the finding...

For most of history people met their partners through family, church or friends; now, the most common way American couples meet is online —...

For most of the twentieth century, finding a partner in America was a community project. Family made introductions. Church socials, neighbourhood gatherings, and the friend who knew someone worth meeting did the quiet work of pairing people off. That...
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What Huang’s resignation means for chipmakers and AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced his resignation after it was reported that he had an affair with a businesswoman...
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