One hundred and twenty thousand excess workplace deaths are caused by toxic stress in the workplace according to research done at Stanford University. This means that workplace stress is the fifth largest cause of death above diabetes and Alzheimer’s in the USA. Chronic workplace stress is toxic and it is becoming pervasive. It is killing…
Author Archives: Jenny Brice
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May
May
The collective pulse of our nation is steadily increasing; pushed upwards as Australians are becoming anxious about their ability to gain and maintain the level of employment required to ensure their own economic stability. It is not just a matter of having a job but having sufficient employment. You may have a job but not…
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May
May
Incentives for Corporate Executives (ICE) acts like a drug that can’t be satisfied. Unhappily for the Big Banks, they find themselves in the firing line, under attack to ‘fix’ a culture gone wrong, a greedy culture that has paid scant regard to both clients and good governance. But is there another conversation about an equally greedy and distorting culture…
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Apr
Apr
Breaking through the glass ceiling is relatively easy. I did it almost 20 years ago. But no one told me about the glass trapdoor – that was the shock nothing in my stellar career had prepared me for. At 50 my corporate stiletto slipped on the glass ceiling and I went head first through the…
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Mar
Mar
At the rate jobs and professions are disappearing, the adults of the future will have to start planning their careers in kindergarten. If this is beyond the realms of possibility, think again. The speed of change, the level of technological disrupters and the competition for employment is unprecedented. Forty per cent of Australians employed in…
Ageism, Corporate, Discrimination
Interview: Age prejudice ‘epidemic’ in corporate Australia target of Sunshine Coast woman’s battle
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Feb
Feb
On Wednesday Jenny Brice was interviewed regarding her new article on Ageism. ABC News’ Jon Coghill interviewed Jenny about her article and gained her perspective on the discrimination people face on account of their age, without knowing the skills and possible contributions those people could make. A Sunshine Coast business coach is combating ageism in the…
03
Feb
Feb
In the 1990’s there were very few women in senior positions in corporate Australia. As one of those corporate executive women, I wanted to understand why? I decided to do my own anecdotal research, which is not academically valid however has served me well during my career. I asked one question to men, repeated in…
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Jan
Jan
The Weakest Link was a TV show that also provided a unique laboratory highlighting overt age discrimination, with contestants greying or wrinkled far more likely to be sent packaging than any other cohort, according to Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s book in the book Freakonomics. The study when applied to the workplace should have every…
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Oct
Oct
A passenger was booking his bags in at an airport and gave the person checking in his bags, a lot of unnecessary abuse. The baggage handler did not seem at all concerned. When the next person in line said to the baggage handler you seemed very calm about the abuse, he said he may be…
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Sep
Sep
I recently went on a short holiday to western Queensland and as a part of my travels I went and visited a lake. I remember it was a glorious winter’s day and as I was wandering along the shoreline, I, by chance, had a conversation with a middle age local woman; let’s say her name…