You don’t need to be job hunting or have a live vacancy to get value from a recruiter. From salary benchmarks and career planning to hiring trends and talent availability, sometimes the best time to ask what’s happening in the market is before you actually need to know.

Who does the school call first when a child gets sick? Who remembers the dentist's name, books holiday care and knows when library books are due back? Those seemingly small responsibilities are part of the invisible mental load carried by many working parents, and over time, they can shape careers more than we realise.

Every school holidays, Australian workplaces face the same challenge. But beyond the leave requests and calendar juggling lies a bigger question: does your organisation's approach to workplace flexibility really work when employees need it most?

School holidays are more than a scheduling challenge. They offer a real-world test of workplace flexibility and reveal a lot about organisational culture. Here's what HR leaders should be paying attention to.

Not every workplace conversation is about what's broken. From clearer priorities to stronger manager capability, here's what high-performing organisations are doing differently right now.

Victoria's proposed "right to work from home" legislation has sparked plenty of debate. But beneath the headlines lies a bigger question: have leadership, workplace culture and business practices evolved quickly enough to meet the expectations of today's workforce?