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• LGBTI inclusion linked with higher overall retention
  
• More women in STEM roles would reduce gender pay gap
  
• Job ads up 9.1% on last year
  
• Does colouring-in make employees more productive?
  
• Employers failing to communicate benefits effectively

• Motivation trumps skills and experience for hiring managers
  
• Contingent workforce strategies help organisations "pivot"
  
• Low "AQ" holding employers back
  
• Job ads up 11% on last year
  
• Hiring on hold for rest of 2015
  
• Deloitte appoints high-profile leadership advisor

Australia is on the precipice of unprecedented workplace change, but regulation and policy discussions focus too much on "yesterday's problems", warns Business Council of Australia chief executive, Jennifer Westacott.

• New leaders need five "interaction essentials"
  
• Education key to increasing Australia's talent competitiveness
  
• Job ads highlight winning and losing hiring sectors
  
• Legal sector reports steady jobs growth

• HR demand concentrated in three key areas
  
• How to reduce the effects of "emotional labour"
  
• Six steps to more authentic employer branding

Increasing casual employment and unsocial working hours are part of a worrying pattern of declining job quality in Australia, according to new research.

• Research uncovers "profound and disturbing" leadership trend
  
• Employers put the brakes on hiring
  
• Automation could wipe out 40% of jobs in 10 years
  
• Australian cities more attractive for expat talent

Australian employers should shift from their "myopic" focus on hiring specialists to embrace workers with broad-ranging skills, according to a researcher and author.

The Federal Government's move to restrict so-called 'double-dipping' of parental leave is an unnecessary setback for recent progress in making workplaces more family friendly, says Diversity Council Australia CEO Lisa Annese.

Tomorrow's HR leaders should be curious, people-centric, and entrepreneurial, a panel of experts told a summit in Sydney this month.