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.

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Cover of the Big Conversation: Cover letter, yes or no? Poll results: always 25%, only if requested 31%, only for jobs I really want 18%, pointless 26%

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The Big Conversation
The Aussie Corporate on Reddit (r/auscorp), on Instagram (@theaussiecorporate) and Pick & Scroll's Instagram account, shown on three phones

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.

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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.

  • A community submission posted by The Aussie Corporate: is the rise of fridge theft a recession indicator? Photos of office fridge notes calling out the thief who took a pizza and a can of Coke Zero.
  • An anonymous poll posted by The Aussie Corporate: when do work drinks stop being work drinks? It's work drinks as long as a colleague is there 42%, when you change venues 26%, when management leaves the table 24%, when you leave the office 9%.
  • A community submission posted by The Aussie Corporate: a job listing for a Divisional Risk Manager in Melbourne asking for a minimum of 68 years of relevant experience.
  • A community submission posted by The Aussie Corporate: after four months of office renovations, someone emptied a heap of fruit salad into one of the new toilets.

Inside Track

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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.

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