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An employer's misguided approach to addressing an "emotional" supervisor's performance issues could have caused even someone of "normal fortitude" to suffer a psychiatric injury, a court has ruled in ordering it to pay $300k in damages.

An organisation that has quickly grown to 1,000 staff, but until recently was still relying on spreadsheets to store and manage its people data, says a system overhaul took it "from zero to 100".

A general manager's communication with a CEO didn't reflect "respect, subordination and trust", but it wasn't misconduct that justified his dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Employees' expectations have evolved in significant ways, however targeting four key themes, and particularly handling change management well, helps to drive up EX metrics, new data shows.

An employee who admitted to "a habit of speaking at length" has failed to prove he was put on a PIP due to his race, rather than his difficulties with communication and collaboration.

The NSW public sector's new guide on office time is far from a mandate, but comes across as a "captain's call" that perpetuates stereotypes, a workplace advisor says.

It was "excessive" and unfair to take six months to investigate workplace misbehaviour allegations, a commission has found in upholding an employee's psychological injury claim.

With AI now making some skills less valuable, knowledge workers should be "honing" their human skills, but they need leadership support, a data scientist says.

In a new ruling highlighting the importance of discussing expectations when employees resign, the Fair Work Commission has found a manager didn't "freely" agree to leave before his notified end date.

A manager had "ostensible authority" to act on an employer's behalf, despite its claims to the contrary, and made it "unequivocally clear" to an employee that she no longer had a job, the Fair Work Commission has found.