Telework, productivity and wellbeing: an Australian perspective

Telework Configurations and Labour Productivity: Some Stylized Facts

The development of information and communication technologies has led to the rise of new working forms in firms, some of which are temporally and spatially dispersed, such as telework practices. However, ‘telework’ is a broad concept, including different forms of remote work as well as diverse reasons and performance implications for the separation of work from ...

Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices

Climate change and the urgency of minimising the carbon footprint of the built environment are driving technological innovation in the way thermal comfort is delivered to building occupants. In recent building developments, international attention has been increasingly focused on the way buildings are designed and operated. There is no doubt that high-quality environmental design can be an inve...

Internet economics and policy: An Australian perspective

Burn Injury and Explosions: An Australian Perspective

OBJECTIVES Increasingly (but not exclusively), terrorist activity and the use of explosive devices have enjoyed the focus of the global media. This paper aims to bring a range of issues to attention, to highlight how burn injuries are sustained in such incidents and why burn injuries (and thus burn disasters) are so complicated to manage. MATERIALS AND METHODS The author's experience with bur...

Emerging viral diseases: an Australian perspective.

Update International Editors update Dr. Mackenzie is professor and head of the Department of Microbiology and Parasi-tology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Aus-tralia. His research interests include the epidemiology, ecology, and molecular biology of mosquito-borne and emerging zoonotic viruses. With a few exceptions, emerging diseases in Australia are similar to those in other industriali...