How big companies decide your pay rise each year
How the yearly pay rise budget, your pay band and the bell curve decide what you get, and what our readers told us about their own reviews.
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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Does going to a private school help your career in Australia?
Readers and hiring managers on whether private school gives a career advantage in Australia, and how our poll voted.
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Is working from home worth $50K less a year?
We put $200K in the office against $150K fully remote. What the gap is worth after tax, what the commute costs and what our readers chose.
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What do colleagues think when you use AI at work?
We asked our community about AI at work. Most answers were about credibility, juniors who stop thinking and colleagues who send what Copilot wrote ...
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Is a cover letter necessary in Australia?
Our community poll split four ways on cover letters, and the people who read them were just as divided. When one matters, how long it should be and...
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How does perimenopause affect women at work?
Perimenopause lands in the middle of a career, alongside young children and ageing parents. What women told us, the one dissenting view and what wo...
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.
