Should kids be allowed in the office?
Most employees get 4 weeks of annual leave. School holidays leave parents to bridge the gap every year.
Big Conversations
The Big Conversation
The topics nobody raises at work, answered by corporate Australia in anonymous polls and written up with the numbers and the quotes.
Latest Big Conversations
The Big Conversation
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The mid-career squeeze nobody designed a policy for.
Women in their mid-30s to late 40s are in a blender that corporate Australia hasn't built infrastructure for.
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EY made headlines for clawing back parental leave.
Our data shows they're not even close to the worst.
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Ladies, have you ever been paid less than a man for the exact same job?
Almost nobody gets told they're being paid less. They find out by accident. A payroll glitch, a document left on a printer, an employee contract fo...
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What excuses have you heard when your pay rise got denied?
This conversation happens in every company, every year. So how do you go about it?
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"Did you run it through Copilot?"
Every leader in Australia wants you to increase your AI usage. What happens when you do?
What is the Big Conversation?
The Big Conversation is a weekly anonymous poll of corporate Australia on the topics nobody raises at work: pay rises, parental leave, the pay gap and life in the office. Each one is written up with the numbers and the best answers, word for word, in Flat White and here.
Polls average 15K responses.
How do the anonymous polls work?
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You tell us on Instagram
Topics come from what the community sends us: submissions, tips and questions in Instagram messages.
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We poll the community
We put the question to our followers as an anonymous Instagram poll and collect the answers.
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We publish the numbers and the best answers
The results go out in Flat White and on this page, with the best answers word for word. Never a name.
What people send us
Fridge thieves, work drinks, impossible job ads and whatever happened in the new bathrooms. A few of the submissions we have posted, as they went out.
Inside Track
Heard something at work?
Redundancies, restructures and the news that reaches our DMs before it reaches the press, as it lands. See what came in this month, or send us yours.
