This Month
Why these companies are Australia’s best places to work
An intensive and “confronting” two-year leadership program underpinned the decision to award online recruitment firm Seek the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Place to Work – Large Organisation.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Best places to work
No amount of leave offerings will compensate for poor leadership
Companies can have all the flexible and hybrid work arrangements and offer all the leave entitlements under the sun, but if their leaders are poor at leading, they will count for naught.
- Sally Patten
March
A decade of Banking Summit front pages
Here’s how The Australian Financial Review told the story of a decade of momentous developments in banking and finance.
- Analysis
- Software
How Ian Narev copied CBA’s tech success at Seek
Seek’s recent tech upgrade is being talked about as an exemplar case study. Involving 1000 people including 350 engineers, the project came in on time and under budget.
- Tony Boyd
February
Seek cuts dividend on slower job market
Job site Seek downgraded its revenue and profit guidance after job ads fell sharply in November and December.
- Tess Bennett
March 2023
Joyce to take reins of Sydney Theatre Company
In an email to supporters, the Sydney Theatre Company credited Alan Joyce’s ‘business acumen and great passion for theatre’.
- Lucas Baird
February 2023
Job ads fall from the pandemic peaks: Seek CEO
Seek has shifted its guidance for its full-year revenue and profit to the lower end of the forecast range.
- Tess Bennett
July 2022
- Exclusive
- Funding
Seek finds $20m for start-up casual jobs platform
Sidekicker has scored another $20 million investment from the $7.6 billion jobs marketplace SEEK, as it looks to expand into aged care and white-collar jobs.
- Yolanda Redrup
April 2022
- Analysis
- Federal election
How passion (and the power of 1m people) changed health policy
Eighteen months of extensive and relentless lobbying, presenting the same message at scale, has delivered a major prize for people with diabetes.
- Jill Margo
Staying away from ‘sexy’ helps drive returns for Serendipity Capital
Understanding the big pain points for banks has helped this private capital vehicle deliver for its well-connected pool of investors.
- Ayesha de Kretser
February 2022
Seek declares highest dividend in three years
The online employment marketplace had a strong jump in sales and profit as the so-called “great resignation” drove candidate activity on its sites.
- Miranda Ward
September 2021
CBA hit with criminal charges over junk insurance
Commonwealth Bank is facing 30 criminal charges for false and misleading conduct over consumer credit insurance.
- Updated
- James Frost
June 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
End of CBA clean-up brings $5b capital return closer
The sale of Commonwealth Bank’s insurance unit means it can finally get on with big capital returns, starting with a potential buyback in August.
- Updated
- James Thomson
April 2021
Why SEEK is Australia’s best place to work
Going all out in support of its staff during tough times was a winning strategy for SEEK, which seized the top spot at the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards.
- Sally Patten
February 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Seek empowers Ian Narev’s makeover
From the dumped CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia to boss of one of our most successful tech platforms - Ian Narev is a man remade.
- Tony Boyd
Narev to Bassat: ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’
Seek’s new chief executive, Ian Narev, checked in multiple times to make sure his outgoing boss Andrew Bassat was really ready to let go of the reins. But for the latter, the timing ‘just felt right’.
- Natasha Gillezeau and James Thomson
SEEK eyes a split as Bassat hands reins to Narev
Co-founder Andrew Bassat is stepping down from his chief executive role to be succeeded by former Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev.
- Updated
- Natasha Gillezeau
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Seek is splitting itself in two
In handing the reins to Ian Narev, Seek CEO Andrew Bassat will launch a restructure designed to give the group’s very different sides room to grow.
- Updated
- James Thomson
November 2020
Narev out of CBA frying pan, into shorter's fire at Seek
It can't be money that motivates Ian Narev to slap on the work shirt at online employment site Seek.
- Liam Walsh
September 2020
Aged care deaths 'far worse' than banking royal commission offences
Melbourne businessman Mike Fitzpatrick has called for political accountability for the inflated COVID-19 deaths in Victorian aged care facilities, arguing the failures are 'far worse' than financiers who lost their jobs from the banking royal commission.
- John Kehoe
