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"It is interesting to see consumers continuing to purchase what may be classified as non-essentials" Photo: Getty Images

How will the global pandemic affect online businesses?

Coronavirus / 03 Apr

"Who are these workers, how well paid are they and why should we care?" Photo: Getty Images

The low-paid workers keeping Ireland running during the pandemic

Brainstorm / 02 Apr

"Models help us to learn as much as possible about outbreaks, to understand what interventions are best to slow or stop an outbreak and how to respond to an outbreak in real time"

How to understand the numbers behind the coronavirus

Coronavirus / 02 Apr

The battle for dominance in the oil market between Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States means lower prices on Irish forecourts

Why have petrol prices fallen at the pumps?

Oil Prices / 03 Apr

Moville Clothing in Co Donegal has completely turned production over to making scrubs for front-line healthcare workers. Photo: Eileen Magnier

What COVID-19 tells us about technology and human behaviour

technology / 26 Mar

"Making a plan and identifying what we can control is associated with sense of purpose and progress"

How to cope with self-isolation and quarantine

Psychology / 24 Mar

Do you really need to buy six months' worth of toilet paper?

How to stop people panic-buying loo roll

Coronavirus / 09 Mar

"Managers, colleagues, founders and team members all need to trust each other to get the job done"

All you need to know about working from home

Coronavirus / 10 Mar

Will the St Patrick's Day festivities in Ireland be a victim of the coronavirus?

How the coronavirus may hit the tourism industry

Coronavirus / 03 Mar

"Companies need to look at their complicity in real mental health issues". Photo: Getty Images

Do employers really care about staff mental health issues?

Work & careers / 19 Feb

"These words are used to create an ideological firewall against meaningful public debate on how the financial system could be organised to promote socially and environmentally sustainable development of people, households and society"

Why words matter when it comes to human rights and housing

Housing / 17 Feb

"Dominic Cummings taps into a widely held belief that adding very different people to teams can make them more creative and effective." Photo: Getty Images

Is your workplace in need of "weirdos and misfits"?

Work & careers / 11 Feb

"The obvious solution is to avoid travelling and not risk being flight shamed, but most of us still need to fly for work, family reasons or pleasure"

Can carbon offsets make you a green flyer?

Climate Change / 11 Feb

"precarious work reduces voting in 27 of the 31 countries surveyed". Photo: Artur Widak/ NurPhoto via Getty Images

How "bad jobs" contribute to low election turnout

Election 2020 / 05 Feb

"Our attempts to our professional network are most effective when we supplement online activities with face-to-face interactions"

How to use LinkedIn more effectively

Brainstorm / 23 Mar

"The idea that Brexit may mark the birth of a federal tradition on the island of Britain may appear fanciful. But then, Brexit appeared rather fanciful just a few years ago"

What will Britain look like 50 years after Brexit?

Brexit / 27 Jan

"To paraphrase Star Trek's Spock, trade will continue but not as we know it after Brexit."

How supply chains and logistics get goods from A to B

Brexit / 24 Jan

Many people believe open-plan offices were devised by Satan in the deepest caverns of hell

How to design a better office

Offices / 24 Jan

"A hacker could gain access to your smartphone through your smart salt dispenser because they are connected" Photo: Getty Images

Do you know what your fridge is doing?

technology / 22 Jan

"People often feel uncomfortable if others know their salary"

How much are you paid?

Salaries / 03 Mar

"Contrary to how things were 30 years ago, open source software is today as user-friendly and good-looking as any other proprietary and close-source counterpart"

Is open source culture the answer to our technology woes?

technology / 14 Jan

"Irish Gen Z-ers have expressed apprehensions about their ability to communicate face-to-face and develop functional relationships off-line"

Meet your new workmates: Generation Z's views on work and careers

Work & careers / 10 Jan

"Sometimes we're just not happy in our work, but sometimes it's the actual workplace itself that's actually quite toxic"

Are you putting up with a toxic workplace?

Work & careers / 06 Jan

New year, business as usual?

What are some key economic trends to expect in 2020?

Your new Tesla has arrived

Your essential guide to buying an electric car in 2020

Electric Cars / 28 Jan

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