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Perth Now
3 days ago
- Business
- Perth Now
Search for Australia's worst boss
Australians with horror stories about their boss could win $5000 in a new competition aimed at finding the nation's worst employer. HR tech company Compono is searching for Australia's most 'outrageous, hilarious or just plain unbelievable' bad boss story. Submissions for Australia's worst boss start on August 15 and will run through until September 15. Compono will shortlist the 10 most 'jaw-dropping' entries for Australians to vote on the nation's worst boss story. Australians could win $5000 on their bad boss stories. iStock Credit: Supplied The winner will be announced on October 13, with the person who unfortunately has the worst boss story getting a $5000 holiday voucher along with three-one-on-one sessions with a workplace psychologist. Compono chief executive Ruby Crous said we've all experienced a bad boss during our working lives. 'They're often promoted without the training, support, or self-awareness needed to lead well,' he said. 'This campaign puts a spotlight on the behaviours employees quietly put up with every day while showing what great leadership could look like instead.' Mr Crous says the competition is not about naming and shaming but helping leaders learn. 'If we can openly talk about these stories and learn from them, we're already one step closer to creating workplaces that don't drive us crazy. Better bosses aren't a myth, they're just leaders who've had the right support,' he said. Compono will donate $1 for every vote to R U OK?. Picture Supplied Credit: Supplied For every vote, Compono will donate $1 to mental health charity R U OK?. 'We know that poor leadership can have a serious impact on mental health. That's why we're proud to support R U OK? through this campaign. It's one more way we're helping to bring wellbeing into the leadership conversation,' Mr Crous said. Research released by Gallup earlier in the year showed just 23 per cent of Aussies were engaged with their job, costing the country $223bn. Gallup managing director Claire DeCarteret said employers who meet the needs of employees would in turn get a boost to their own business. 'We don't know if it's that they don't like their job, but they're not emotionally connected to the work that they're doing every day, and mainly it's because they're going through the motions,' Ms DeCarteret previously told NewsWire. 'They may not be supported by a great manager, and a lot of the time, it's that their needs are not being met in the workplace.'
The Citizen
18-07-2025
- Business
- The Citizen
Remote work vs return to office: The battle for workplace culture, pay and productivity
'If companies want to calibrate remote working to their requirements, they need systems that support flexibility.' Remote work, often abbreviated as WFH (work-from-home), is becoming culturally ingrained, despite pushback through return-to-office (RTO) mandates. A poll from Global Payroll Association revealed that three-quarters of people would turn down a job that doesn't offer hybrid or remote working. While critics say WFH reduces productivity. Sandra Crous, managing director at Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace, notes that there is an increasing expectation for more workplace flexibility, and certain roles work better with flexible hours and locations. 'Considering that our digital society enables remote and flexible working, it's no wonder it has become the norm. Companies should think about where it's appropriate and how they create the systems to manage different work styles.' Adapting to remote work She says workplace flexibility is complex. The ability to work remotely depends on employee roles and business projects, managerial styles, customer expectations, and even how flexibility is presented. 'For example, is time and location flexibility a standard feature or offered as a perk?' Crous highlights that work location flexibility is incompatible with some roles or industries. It can stagnate or elevate careers. It can reduce pay or increase bonuses. Furthermore, it can make some jobs more productive and others less. ALSO READ: How to create a healthy work environment for employees Work location flexibility 'In some cases, it has no impact at all. If companies want to calibrate remote working to their requirements, they need systems that support flexibility. Payroll and human resources systems have the biggest impact.' She highlights that modern payroll and HR platforms offer increased flexibility for companies through data-driven insights, employee enablement services, and seamless integration with other business areas. 'They establish the processes that enable a business to adapt and adopt different work modes as required. For example, a modern payroll platform automates the management of variable pay structures, thereby reducing the administrative burden associated with taxes, benefits, time tracking, and invoicing.' Efforts to support WFH Crucially, they support remote work for managers of payroll, HR, and finances, who can access cloud-native payroll platforms remotely and securely from anywhere through their smart devices. 'When companies combine these features with other collaboration tools such as Slack or Teams, they open the doors to dynamic collaborative workflows for people at the office and elsewhere.' NOW READ: Do you want to work at home or in an office that looks like a hotel?
BBC News
12-03-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Treatment leap enabling Jersey cancer patient to "thrive"
A Jersey cancer patient, who vowed against treatment after the side effects her late mother endured, has said her advanced radiotherapy has been much less Crous said her mother Carol died in 2010 after "really, really harsh" treatment which led to pain and discomfort from the radiotherapy techniques available at the being diagnosed with breast cancer, Ms Crous has undergone precision radiotherapy in London called stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) involving fewer rounds of treatment and bringing fewer side Crous said: "I'm definitely thriving and life is carrying on for me." Ms Crous has joined a campaign by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) to highlight the importance of research and development into these treatments and to raise money to cover funding to the charity, radiotherapy is used to treat more than 140,000 people every year in the UK with various forms of she was diagnosed in 2019, Ms Crous underwent surgery and she moved from Surrey to Jersey, doctors discovered the cancer had spread and she subsequently underwent five sessions of SABR. 'New normal' Much of Ms Crous's treatment has taken place in Jersey but she has gone to England for radiotherapy and six-monthly PET said "it was interesting because it was almost uneventful" as she was put in "this massive machine buzzing around me and it didn't feel like anything"."After about a week or two of side effects, I'm absolutely better and I like to say I'm a thriver, not a survivor so I'm definitely thriving and life is carrying on for me," she added."Although the side effects can be hard – and every patient experiences these differently – it's only for a period of time, and then you find a new normal." CRUK's science engagement leader Dr Samuel Godfrey said "radiotherapy started out very, very blunt instrument which had an awful lot of side effects" and then in the 1980s and 1990s CRUK "did a huge push to get radiotherapy to a more modern treatment" which had fewer side effects for progression slowed, in the last six years the charity invested £67 million in a programme called RadNet to develop new treatments and Godfrey added: "We're now beginning to see is some real leaps forward in radiotherapy and the types of things we're hoping to do are almost like science fiction."They really sort of pave the path to where cancer will be a more manageable disease." Consultant clinical oncologist Dr Rubin Soomal recommended Ms Crous for the SABR treatment and is helping provide her maintenance treatments in said: "The biggest benefit is that this is an option that wasn't available freely even 10 or 15 years ago", and described SABR as "a huge advance".Dr Soomal said it was "really rewarding to see that treatment happen with little or no side effects" and "it's quite incredible what has happened".
