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The real meeting often happens after you leave the room.
It’s an unfortunately familiar feeling. The meeting wraps up, you grab your worldly corporate possessions - your laptop, notebook, and water bottle, then shuffle yourself out. Behind you, the door closes, and the same circle stays behind to continue their meeting, the one you’re no longer welcome in.
Trust me, women notice who gets invited in and who gets edged out. And the data now suggest they also map a way out.
How Ikea got Creative with Workforce Design
When automation rolled out across IKEA’s customer service teams, they didn’t tell thousands of loyal, customer-savvy staff to ‘get packing’. They made a smart, strategic shift, retraining them as online interior design advisers. The result was happier employees, delighted customers, and an extra $1.4 billion on the bottom line. You could say… they nailed it. (Sorry- I’m done with the puns now.)
A Talent Drought is Imminent If Entry-Level Hiring Continues to Decline.
It’s easy to see the temptation that orgs must feel to cut entry-level programs while they navigate economic uncertainty and embrace AI-driven efficiency. After all, why invest in untested talent when you can automate processes or poach experienced professionals? This thinking, while understandable in quarterly reporting cycles, represents a colossal failure to see beyond the balance sheet to the structural crisis we're creating.
The Start-Up Funding Slump and a Deepening Divide
The numbers are in for Australia’s Q2 start-up funding scene, and they’re not great. It’s not all bad news in terms of investment sentiment, but there is one cohort that’s definitely feeling the squeeze more than others…
Why Neoma? Why now?
Meet Gemma and Roisin, the founders of Neoma. Hear our stories and what lit the fire for starting a business that helps retrain people into tech roles.
A CS Degree Won’t Save You (And What Will)
Do you really need a computer science degree to work in tech? Let us tell you why you don’t…
