A feeling of alienation, often closely aligned to estrangement, is in essence, the feeling that you have no connection to the people, or group, surrounding you. Not to be confused with Karl Marx’s original theories around labour alienation in a capitalist society, a more modern view of workplace alienation is one of being disconnected or […]
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According to Media War and Peace, globally there are now twice as many gamers as TV subscribers. Whilst this is as much a comment on the demise of linear TV, it is an extraordinary rise in the number of gamers, driven in large part, by the number of people gaming on apps on their mobile
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A feeling of alienation, often closely aligned to estrangement, is in essence, the feeling that you have no connection to the people, or group, surrounding you. Not to be confused with Karl Marx’s original theories around labour alienation in a capitalist society, a more modern view of workplace alienation is one of being disconnected or
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Australia’s population is ageing. By 2030 there will be more people aged over 50 than under 10. Globally, that trend is even more pronounced, with the US National Institute on Ageing predicting that by 2030 there will be more than 1 billion people aged over 65 years – effectively 1 in 8 of the world’s
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The digital age or the information age, or indeed the digital revolution depending on your point of view, technically began in the 1980s. However, in mass market terms, it was corporate adoption of the internet in the mid to late 1990s and critically, the launch of the iPhone in 2007 which drove popular use of
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Jill is planning to retire. She’s 55, which is the average retirement age in Australia. Jill was born in 1968 when her life expectancy was 70 years. As of 2023 Jill’s life expectancy is now 84 years, or a 20% increase over the course of her life – so far. Assuming she lives to be
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At the back end of 2022, the age at which people expected to retire had drifted up to 66.2 years for men and 64.8 years for women*. But why is that – why are Australians working longer and retiring later? First is the shift to the knowledge economy over the last 50 years. Work is
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