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Getting the story straight on jobs
By Kieran Madden
“Lies, damn lies, and statistics”—so the saying goes. Statistics New Zealand’s release of this June’s unemployment figures wasn’t a lie,…
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How ready are we for “shovel-ready” projects?
By Julian Wood
As the numbers of people made redundant as a result of COVID-19 rises there is ever increasing pressure on the…
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Keeping the “forgotten sector” together
By Kieran Madden
My two-year old daughter hasn’t quite worked out that some things cannot be fixed or brought back to life, no…
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Good migration policy is about more than just jobs
By Julian Wood
Recent political posturing over partnership visas and arranged marriages is a troubling distraction that derails the real, necessary debates we…
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Creating poverty-busting opportunites that work for people with disabilities
By Alex Penk
by Alex Penk and Danielle van Dalen This week there’s been a lot of coverage about employment opportunities for people…
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Tax the robots?
By Julian Wood
We’re now quite used to dire predictions concerning the future of work, job stability, and automation. As far back as…
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Productive thinking
By Julian Wood
Everybody wants New Zealand to be a great place to work and live. High wages, high growth, high productivity, low…
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Social skills to pay the bills
By Kieran Madden
Modern workplaces are like preschool. Our schools and homes should be too. At preschool “children move from art projects to…
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