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It’s office Christmas party season. These are the personality types to look out for (and maybe avoid).

Heading to the work Christmas party? The 10 personalities to look out for

From the veteran co-worker who bangs on about how good things were 30 years ago to the awkward manager who stays way too long, the work Christmas party is a parade of characters. Which one are you?

  • Rob Crossan

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Gender targets won’t help new mothers working in finance stay competitive.

For a growing share of Australians, time – not money – is the scarcest resource

Most Australians expect happiness to grow steadily with age and experience. But the data tells a different story.

  • Daniel Kiely

Do you work too hard? The Brisbane suburbs where people work the longest hours

Search our interactive map to see how many hours full-time workers in your suburb are spending on the job.

  • Marissa Calligeros, Dominique Tassell and Craig Butt
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Do you work too hard? How many hours people in your job work a week

How do your weekly work hours compare to those of others in your job? Use our online interactive tool to explore the data and see how you stack up.

  • Craig Butt, The Visual Stories Team and Nathanael Scott
Professor Sandra Thom-Jones has had a chequered career.

I went from high school dropout to professor. What I did next shocked my colleagues

I had an unfortunate knack for finding work environments that were completely inappropriate for me as a young person, but a diagnosis explained a lot.

  • Sandra Thom-Jones
Zara Lim took a “micro-retirement” to recalibrate as she headed into her thirties.

Zara was about to turn 30. So she decided to retire

As working lives lengthen, young people are reassessing the value of a continuous career path and opting to prioritise personal development and wellbeing. But it comes with risks.

  • Shona Hendley
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UNSW computer science student Jayden Nguyen has secured a graduate role at a big tech firm. He says students will have to start building their industry experience earlier as AI eliminates “grunt coders”.

Learn to code? Maybe not any more

Politicians preached it, universities packaged it and teenagers took up Python and JavaScript. Now, amid an AI boom, graduates are facing a world of anxiety.

  • David Swan and Bronte Gossling
Having access to the salaries being paid to managers can be a blessing and a curse.

Seeing what our managers get paid is making me angry. How can I deal with this?

When you work in payroll, you are privy to information that few have access to. But that’s not always a good thing, especially when it’s impacting your mental health.

  • Kirstin Ferguson
White-collar professionals outnumber blue-collar factory-floor workers by a wide margin.

Despite what Donald Trump says, factory work is overrated. Here are the jobs of the future

Tariffs are a symptom of an America trapped by its industrial fantasies, but it’s time to leave them behind.

  • The Economist
Enrolment rates for domestic students began to plateau in 2016, and recently have started to fall sharply.

Want a secure, high-paying job? Don’t expect university to get you there

If I were finishing high school today, would a university degree offer the same value proposition it did a decade ago? Increasingly, it appears not.

  • William Bennett