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"Coworker quality" has recently become a much more important driver for employees making decisions about leaving and joining organisations, new research shows.

An employer has convinced a commission there are "no reasonable means by which it can create a role that a man can perform", and has been granted an exemption from discrimination laws.

A team leader who choked a colleague and threatened to kill another after they "provoked" him was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, rejecting that his actions were a "fight or flight" response and therefore justified.

An employer was entitled to dismiss an employee who committed safety breaches to provoke a reaction from colleagues and then threw an "adult tantrum" when they called him out on it, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Many teams are simmering in "artificial harmony" because their leaders don't know how to address "healthy disagreements", a workplace expert says.

A tribunal has criticised Australia Post for its "witch hunt" of an impressionable worker, whose psychological injury stemmed from bored colleagues making jokes at her expense.

Loneliness is an issue that organisations tend to overlook, despite it deeply affecting employees' performance and underlying HR costs, a workplace researcher says.

An employer dismissed an employee when it changed her position from part time to casual without her agreement, the Fair Work Commission has found, clearing her to pursue her general protections claim.

Managers are often so awkward and emotional in their feedback delivery that it lands like an attack on employees' character, but practising self-feedback might help them change, an executive coach says.

An employer's "ad hoc" approach to a sexual harassment allegation and its subsequent investigation caused an employee's psychological injury and were not reasonable actions, a commission has found.