The Coles underpayment bill landed in August 2026: $235 million, set aside to repay the people who run its stores. In the same results, Coles reported a $1.1 billion profit. For years, salaried store managers at Coles worked under annual salaries meant to cover their overtime and penalty rates. A Federal Court found that arrangement
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Staff wrote the warning in 2021. Nobody treated it like one. BrewDog was once the loudest success story in British business. It was said to be worth more than $1bn and owned about 100 bars around the world. In March 2026, the original company went into administration and its best parts sold for £33
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They reported the problems. The jury says they paid for it. Five drivers and yard workers at Sysco Riverside in California spent years watching things they believed were wrong. Some had worked there for decades. They spoke up internally. They contacted regulators. According to their lawsuit, that is when their problems started. In early 2026,
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The organisation that runs the market couldn’t read its own room The ASX is supposed to be the most reliable institution in Australian finance. It runs the stock exchange. It clears and settles trades worth billions every day. In April 2026, the corporate regulator published a final report saying trust in the ASX had
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When hitting the number matters more than the truth Wood Group was once one of Aberdeen’s biggest success stories. In 2024, a buyer was offering 230 pence a share for it. By 2025, it had agreed to be sold for 30 pence. Between those two numbers sits a story about what happens when a
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The CEO who fired 900 people on a Zoom call is out In December 2021, Better.com CEO Vishal Garg let 900 employees go on a single Zoom call. The clip went around the world. For most people, that was the whole story. It wasn’t. On 3 August 2026, Better Home & Finance’s board
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The warning that took two years to be heard Somewhere inside KPMG Australia, someone raised their hand. According to Ethisphere, a whistleblower sent a detailed warning to leadership in May 2024 about senior partners misusing confidential client information. The firm handled it as a workplace grievance. Two reviews came back clean. It took a senator
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A quarter of UK workers have experienced a hostile or toxic work environment, according to a Prospect union survey of 5,821 members across all sectors, with the figure rising to 27.1% for women and nearly double for disabled workers. That survey does not name any employer or measure any single company, but it does show
Organizations have spent billions deploying artificial intelligence tools, training employees, and rebuilding workflows around machine learning. The individual results are real. Workers report faster task completion, easier drafting, and more time for strategic thinking. Yet at the organizational level, something is broken. Gallup’s 2026 research reveals a disconnect that should concern every executive who signed
A generation of workers is finding creative ways to survive the workday, and those ways often involve escaping the office entirely to find moments of privacy and rest. Nearly half of Gen Z office workers have been reduced to tears by workplace stress, and the places they go to recover tell a story about the
