Essay: Avoiding the five most common hiring mistakes
Dr KEN BYRNE, a corporate psychologist and co-author of ‘Hire Right, First Time: A Practical Guide to Staffing Christian Organisations’, looks at five of the most common hiring problems Christian organisations face…
Health Insight: How a night of poor sleep can affect your next day at work – and four ways to function better
WLADISLAW RIVKIN, an associate professor in organisational behaviour at Trinity College Dublin, provides – in an article first published on The Conversation, some tips to function well after a bad night’s sleep…
Gender pay gap
The gender pay gap is terrible – the fact that woman are consistently paid less than men is to our shame. PICTURE: [email protected]/Unsplash But have got something fundamentally wrong in this equation. Is the way we evaluate gender difference perpetuating the problem, rather than solving it? Doesn’t an evaluation based on income simply reinforce […]
A year after Taliban’s return, some women fight for lost freedoms
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Monesa Mubarez is not going to give up the rights she and other Afghan women won during 20 years of Western-backed rule easily. Before the hardline Islamist Taliban movement swept back to power a year ago, the 31-year-old served as a director of policy monitoring at the finance ministry. She was one of […]
Sight-Seeing: A tight job market is a chance for Christians to rethink work
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says ‘ministry’ is not defined by who signs our payslip…
Wow!: Pakistan bus network gives women a ticket to work and study
ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Peshawar’s BRT transport system is helping women travel safely without fear of sexual harassment, opening up new opportunities for them to study and find jobs in the socially conservative city…
This Life: A perfectionist learns to rest in Jesus
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article published on ASSIST News Service, on why perfectionism doesn’t lead to a fulfilling life…
Long working hours are a killer, WHO study shows
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday. In the first global study of the loss of life associated with longer working hours, the paper in the journal Environment […]
Switching off?: Right to disconnect gains ground as pandemic brings work home
As many people work remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a renewed push for employees to have the right to disconnect…
Postcards: Bolivians forced to get creative as COVID-19 hits cash-in-hand workers
ANASTASIA MOLONEY and WARA VARGAS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how people in one of South America’s poorest countries are being forced to adapt to make ends meet during the coronavirus pandemic…