Counteracting Unconscious Bias – Symmetra featured by Ambition
Heather Price, Symmetra CEO, was recently featured on the Ambition website, discussing Unconscious Bias. To read the article, check out the Ambition Website
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Showcase for Aboriginal Owned Businesses
Kate Kelleher, a senior consultant with Symmetra attended Supply Nation’s Connect 2013 awards conference in Melbourne on May 14 and 15 this year. Supply Nation provides a direct business to business purchasing link between corporate Australia, government agencies and Indigenous-owned businesses. They are otherwise known as a dating agency for business. Kelleher, who is Supply …
Mothers returning to work – the law catches up.
By Errol Price, Director – Legal. It has often been remarked that the law lags behind Social and Economic changes. We see this once again with the Law’s rather slow adaptation to significant social shifts regarding the rights of mothers returning to work after having children. Between 1991 and 2011 (according to census data) the …
The new Workplace Gender Equality Act – A snapshot
In November 2012, The Australian Federal Government followed through on their promise to modernise and improve on the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act. The new amended act has been developed to drive improved gender equality outcomes and provide business with a new framework for gender equality. So… what’s new? New name and …
Berating Sheryl Sandberg’s message won’t benefit the working woman.
We can’t escape Sandberg’s message: “Women need to break the stereotypes that keep them from excelling. They need to take a seat at the table. They need to quit leaving mentally before they’ve really left.” “While women continue to outpace men in educational achievement, we have ceased making real progress at the top of any …
The Hypocrisy in Yahoo’s Embargo on Flexible Work
Yahoo has become the talk of Twitter and Silicon Valley for its provocative move to terminate the option to telecommute, generating international debate over workplace flexibility. Critics advised that employee morale will plummet, Yahoo will lose key people, and Yahoo’s efforts to enhance collaboration will backfire. There’s plenty of research that seems to support these grim predictions. …
Inclusion leads to engagement
Aussie employees are grudgingly hauling themselves to work and are apathetic and disengaged. A recent global survey published in 2012 by Gallup indicates that Aussie workers are among the most dissatisfied in the world, with only 21 per cent engaged in their work. The survey, a poll of 47,000 people in more than a hundred …
No Change for Women in Top Leadership
Despite high-profile reports about gender gaps, equal pay, and women on boards, once again the needle barely budged for women aspiring to top business leadership in Australia according to the 2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership. The latest census data on women in leadership reveals an improvement in the number of female board directors …
The Growing Power of Women: Womenomics
The leadership role of women continues to strengthen in the family, at work and in the broader society. The enduring global economic hardship has solidified, not weakened, the role of women in the workplace. “Gender is a business issue, not a woman’s issue!” states Benja Stig Fagerland the inventor of “Womenomics.” Women constitute half of …
New Anti- Discrimination Bill Clarified
By Kali Goldstone & Errol Price. The proposed Anti-discrimination and Human Rights Bill 2012 has “Human Rights” emblazoned in the title. This is an interesting move, as it sets a certain tone and emphasises the inextricable link between human rights and the attempt to eliminate discrimination in public affairs. The changes will consolidate five acts into one: Racial …