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- Work/Life or Life/Work
There seems to me there's something backward about the phrase "work/life balance" that is being bandied about in gay abandon by Government Departments, policy makers, employers, employee organisations, social commentators and other groups at present. It is a catch phrase that rolls of the lips of anyone who thinks they know what it is about. ............................. But surely the phrase should be "life/work balance"
- Working from Home/Working Portfolio
One of the most difficult aspects of being home-based, self-employed and a portfolio worker is convincing clients and prospective clients that I am just as professional as my counterpart in the corporate world ........
- Writing a Business Proposal
While many tender documents will include a format to be followed in submitting the same, a proposal document is much more left to the person writing it. There are however common matters that have to be considered, addressed and documented. This article suggests some of the issues that NEWORKers and Portfolio workers need to be aware of.
- Future of Work - Marcus Letcher
Author and strategist Marcus Letcher offers another view on the changing nature of work and the skills required to manage your life.
We are participants in a revolution in the arena of work.
- 10 do's for working hard
- The Tyranny of Leisure
Finally, Not Overworked! Now There's . . . Uh, Solitaire?
- Time Bomb
The following article was reprinted in the Christchurch Press on 4 January 2003 under the headline....
- The Week's Efforts
- Public policy initiatives for older workers
Older workers' employment patterns and their relationship to population ageing and pension systems are of increasing concern to policy-makers.
- Fun stuff
- Reasons why the English language is so hard....
- Eighteen Advertising Hints
Try not to annoy your target when advertising. Now this sounds obvious, yet often you can antagonise customers without meaning to. For example, if the advert is difficult to read, or it's a radio advert that grates on people's nerves, then change it....
- Decline in volunteering a threat to Civil....
One of the key institutions of Civil Society is suffering severe decline as people move away from being involved in voluntary associations.
- Your way to work
- The Canadian Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI)
- So There have been some Changes - Have There?
- Old Work - New Work
Work, we all have to do it in one shape or another, whether you are a young mother working at home, a salaried worker, contractor or portfolio worker. Work is changing, but most people and institutions behave as if it hasn't.
- Getting the edge on the new economy
A workshop attended by 12 people was targeted at people already working 'on the outside', and was timed to be held concurrently with a workshop of Brisbane based " NEWORKERS ". The date was also to coincide with Adult Learning Week in both countries.
- Consultants - the Modern Oracle?
Pythia, the priestess of Apollo, would transmit the oracles and thereby disclose the future. People came from all over Greece and beyond to have their questions about the future answered by Pythia. Now there is now no need to consult the Oracle at Delphi. Wisdom is the ability to know that one does not know.
- A Market place for Portfolio Workers
Since the establishment of NEWORK, discussion around how to source paid work for those working portfolio, has been high on the agenda.
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