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Are you learning how to switch off from work?

Are you learning how to switch off from work?

Update: 2025-09-051
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We've reached the one year anniversary of the right to disconnect regulations, which now also apply to small businesses. 

What are the challenges of managing this change to the ways we contact each other outside of work hours, and how is it impacting work life balance? 

Guests: 

Anna Volkova, People and Culture leader, Hi Bob 

Matthew Addison, Chair, Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) 

Lisa Heap, senior researcher and labour lawyer, Centre for Future Work, Australia Insitute 

And thanks to Jeromine Alpe from Corporate Diversity Pathways for sharing her tips for small businesses 

More information for small businesses navigating the right to disconnect can be found at www.smallbusinesspeak.org.au

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Are you learning how to switch off from work?

Are you learning how to switch off from work?

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