People working on average two hours less a week than before pandemic
Department of Finance report links trend to increased incidence of remote or hybrid working arrangements
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Irish chief executives on how they cope with the loneliness of leadership
Tips for staying grounded, connected and healthy once you reach the corner office
Airport security man demoted for kissing colleague should get job back, says WRC
Supervisor was demoted from €46,000 a year post and placed on a final written warning after two incidents on successive days
Jewellery chain Claire’s appoints administrators to business in Ireland and Britain
High-street brand’s move puts more than 2,000 jobs at risk, including workers at 20 Irish stores, and comes after parent group filed for bankruptcy protection
Aircraft leasing workers earned €206,000 on average last year
Ireland is a global hub for the sector with official figures show Irish aviation finance companies had €268bn in assets at the end of 2024
‘Traffic-light’ dashboard lets PwC in UK monitor office attendance
Big Four firm checks building pass swipes and WiFi connections to address ‘persistent and deliberate non-compliance’
Is overpaying your mortgage and reducing the term a good idea?
First-time buyers can focus on reducing the mortgage burden but there should be other priorities for any spare cash
Schoolbook rep in Sligo was informed of redundancy when wife read him email while he was in sick bed, WRC told
Publisher says Sligo-based salesman and another rep were being made redundant due to the company incurring losses
Growing up, I always thought I’d live in the city where I worked – blame Carrie Bradshaw et al
Many of us in our early 30s may not be homeowners or have much savings, but we’re redefining what a successful life looks like
Jump in unemployment dismissed as ‘statistical noise’ by Davy
Stockbroker plays down mini spike in jobless rate an says softer-than-expected tax receipts reflect ‘slowing wage growth in high-earning sectors’
Founder of breast cancer clothing firm wins €85k after salary stopped
Problems with Theya Healthcare, the brand she established a decade ago, began after ‘aggressive takeover’ in 2023
Jobseekers shunning academia and trades in favour of AI-centric roles, Indeed says
Data from jobs platform shows Ireland leading the way in Europe with highest proportion of Gen AI postings, outpacing traditional roles
Growth in Irish living standards is likely to disappoint over the next 20 years
Not much scope for a further increase in third-level participation and productivity growth must slow
‘I took few steps back in my career to get a foot in the door at Penneys’: An Irishman in the Dutch village of Enter
David Swann Lassche, originally from Cork, has climbed the ladder to become country leader for Primark in the Netherlands
Row within Garda amid problems with online promotion test
Process hit by technical issues, with those who complained allowed retake same two-hour assessment for second time
Could AI help America out of its debt hole?
Some investors believe the technology’s productivity benefits will put the US on a better fiscal path
What is OpenAI’s GPT-5, and should I worry about my job?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims AI model boasts PhD-level intelligence, but remains a technology in progress
Stroke survivor who sought reduced working hours settles discrimination case for £100k
Site manager asked for reduced working hours to 30 hours a week, following two strokes
Rescue plan at specialist electrical systems business saves 480 jobs
Judge praises pragmatic attitude of Revenue Commissioners in accepting the deferment of significant sums due to protect jobs
Worker forced to retire at 65 awarded €18,000 by Labour Court
Deepak Fasteners turned down request from 45-year veteran to stay on for one year until he reached State pension age
AI’s inbuilt biases threaten to undermine women in the workplace
For many companies, the short-term promise of productivity seems to be overcoming the hard reality of long-term bias and exclusion
How Gen Z is taking a different approach to money - and what others can learn from it
Gen Z and younger Millennials no longer consider life’s traditional milestones as appropriate for their lives
Mechanic wins WRC order for €5,400 in unpaid wages against motor garage employer
WRC rejects claim from employer that it only owed worker an apprentice rate of €4.75 an hour for three months of employment
Let’s stop glorifying motherhood and glorify parenthood instead
But we’ll need more than just a cultural shift if we’re to stop birth rates falling further
The Work We Need by Hilary Cottam: An ambitious call to rethink work
Latest book from the author of Radical Help reimagines our relationship with work
Ireland fined €1.54m for delay in writing EU work-life balance directive into law
Ictu says Ireland has tended to be bad at transposing directives into Irish law but officials say we are currently ranked second best
Making fatherhood work: ‘The feeling you get from caring for your child, I’d swap it for a few zeros’
Changing attitudes to fatherhood are shaping the workplace and men’s careers
Senior X executive concedes 48-hour window for Twitter staff to decide future was ‘not ideal’
Labour Court hearing X appeal of €550,131 award by Workplace Relations Commission to former senior manager in social media group’s Dublin office
Ice cream parlour worker pestered for dates by colleague gets €5,000 for sexual harassment
Trinity student who worked for Spilt Milk complained after boss repeated comments from her aggressor to another staff member
Twitter challenges €550,000 WRC award to former Dublin-based manager it says took ‘enhanced opportunity’ to depart job
Labour Court hears former Twitter executive is over €16,000 out of pocket each month since failure to sign Musk’s ‘hard core’ email saw his ousted
Bank of Ireland to cut 260 jobs as first-half profit falls amid tariff-related impairment charge
Lower interest rates trim bank’s net interest income though not by as much as expected and lender maintains medium-term targets
Housing Agency raised salary for incoming CEO by over €23,000
Government approved bumping salary from lowest to highest point on Assistant Secretary pay scale on appointment of NTMA’s Martin Whelan
Stop thinking of taking time ‘off’ this summer. It’s better to take time ‘for’
Unthinkable: Three tips to help you try – all of which might feel unnatural, uncomfortable or unintuitive at first
‘Apartments here are very reasonable for what you get, but eating out is expensive’: an Irishman on life in Antwerp
Wild Geese: Peter Shaffrey has changed careers and moved cities but is now settled in Belgium
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