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Returning to work after a pregnancy carries retention, safety and legal risks, but many employers fail to mitigate them, and in some cases exacerbate them, an HR professional warns.

When workplaces harness their "superpowers" of empathy, creativity, systems thinking and wisdom, employees over 50 offer "the ideal workforce for the modern world", a career coach says.

Certain social cues in organisations effectively "hush" workplace s-xual harassment, and serve to sustain and perpetuate it, new research suggests.

Even though most employers have come to see employee wellbeing as a shared responsibility, a key pillar is missing from their approach, a mindset specialist says.

When negative emotions such as anger and frustration are only short-lived at work, they can spark positive behaviours that improve performance and engagement, new research shows.

When leaders strive to be the "smartest person in the room", they create systems that depend on their heroic efforts rather than on distributed capability, workplace thought leaders warn.

Organisations are more likely to achieve gender and intersectional equity when their leaders understand their own privilege and power, according to an award-winning executive who's witnessed these moments of enlightenment first-hand.

Researchers have developed a new metric that they say gives HR leaders a diagnostic lens for job design, employee development, and retention strategies.

The way that many employers approach workplace s-xual harassment training won't change problematic behaviour at work, and can even do more harm than good, a culture specialist warns.

When employers are disappointed in the value derived from their talent investments, it's often because they've made decisions "one level too high", according to an authority on human performance.