What change do you want to see in the workplace?

For some workers, it feels like nothing changes, day after day. But if you zoom out a few decades, you’ll see the workforce has actually been shifting at an impressive rate.

Think about your grandparents’ generation: Lifetime job loyalty was paramount, most women quit after having kids (if they worked at all), indentured labor was still a reality in parts of the country and social media was the cork board at the corner store.

Today, we’ve come a long way in terms of workers’ rights and safety. Offices have gone from cubicles, to open plan, to hub-and-spoke models to working from home.

Then there are the professions that didn’t even exist back then, from back-end developer to cake-pop maker.

And the rate of innovation is not slowing down. LinkedIn Australia’s Changemakers are sharing what they would like to see change in the world of work.

Writer, speaker and appearance activist Carly Findlay wants conversations with hiring managers around accessibility to be normalised.

“One easy thing that employers can do to improve their workplace is put details of accessibility around the workplace on the website,” Findlay says.

Advocate for Women of Colour in Australia Brenda Gaddi, who will discuss confronting unconscious bias in an upcoming TEDx talk, says, “Our differences are a superpower.”

“Your struggle and my struggle are different but when we come together our differences illuminate new paths forward. Imagine a place in which every single one of us is able to bring our whole authentic selves to the workplace.”

AGNT BLAK founder Bianca Hunt says she wants to see greater representation of First Nations Australians in the media, because, “If you can’t see it, you can’t be it.”

Sustainability advocate Toby Thorpe wants people?to?think about sustainability as an opportunity rather than as a crisis, issue or problem.

Organisational psychologist Amantha Imber has a relatable ask: To encourage leaders to simply treat their employees like adults.

“When you assume positive intent, people will thrive in that environment.”

What about you? What change do you want to see in the workplace? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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