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Our CEO, Gemma Lloyd, shares her recent worrying experience of having to tell our investors she was pregnant. A feeling many can resonate with their employers. A few weeks ago and less than one year after raising $2m in capital for WORK180, I found myself in the...
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Macquarie: Recognising Flex Week
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How to get the most out of your 1 on 1 meetings
Are you just coasting in your career? In order to fulfill our potential, we need to be taken out of our comfort zone, we need advice and we need effective 1 on 1 meetings. As well as being important for the development of your team, it's a fundamental rule of...
What I love about being a firefighter
I am a volunteer firefighter in the Rural Fire Service. Our weekly training involves scenarios such as car fires, property protection, bush navigation, first aid and maintenance, where we sharpen tools and fix stuff. We get called out to a variety of incidents such...
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