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Amir Durrani, executive vice president of Digital Operations, NTT DATASynopsisThe Japanese IT-services company wants to tap the abundant skill sets available in India. To help counter…

Each week, Dr Kirstin Ferguson tackles questions on the workplace, career and leadership in her advice column “Got a Minute?” This week: asking for a four-day week, a man worried about being…

Bitcoin, that stepped into the last week of April with lower prices, managed to bounce back to recovery after four days of losing ground. The cryptocurrency on Friday, April 28, recorded a…

When I gave my mobile number to hundreds of first-year university students back in the early 2000s, my beloved was dismayed. I had a tendency to overcommit to work and this was, he said, a…

The pandemic may have started the conversation around hybrid working, but since then, it has taken on a life as its own. Even with the world opening and physical distancing measures gone,…

Sixty-one organisations in the UK committed to a 20% reduction in working hours for all staff, with no fall in wages, for a six-month period starting in June 2022. The vast majority of…

Image: Compassionate Eye Foundation/David Oxberry/Getty ImagesMost of the companies that took part in the world's largest four-day week trial will continue with the experiment. Some 61…

The United Nations has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets. Millets, an energy-efficient crop, can be grown with minimal use of resources. “It’s ironic that we find millets only…

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeWhen the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Australia in the early days of 2020, employees and employers scrambled to implement work from home…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A trader works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly By Sinéad Carew and…