The Productivity Commission has been sent back into the minefield of housing costs.

NZIER's monetary policy shadow board recommends the Reserve Bank keep the official cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent tomorrow.

We're all just so "busy" these days. "Slammed" in fact. "Buried," writes blogger Meredith Fineman. "There seems to be a constant exchange, even a one-upping, of just how much we have on our plates when we communicate about our work."

About 80 Statistics New Zealand workers staged a rowdy protest during a day of strike action to highlight what they claim is unfair pay and an offer that excludes across the board pay-rises.

About 75 per cent of Auckland IT employers want to recruit additional staff in the coming year.

A top economist has labelled small political parties' policies "mad" and a serious risk to New Zealand.

Frantic? Stressed from your never ending ‘to do’ list? A few simple tweaks can help you work smarter, writes Debbie Mayo-Smith.

'Interest rates will be lower for longer but eventually higher" is the tricky message the Reserve Bank will seek to convey when it delivers its monetary policy statement on Thursday.

The Green Party's policy to lift the minimum wage by almost $4 to $18 an hour by 2017 is undoubtedly smart politics.

QV has released latest house value data showing big rises nationally and in Auckland but growth rates are slowing.

The National Party's pitch for a third term boils down to the slogan: Don't mess with success.

Auckland house sale volumes and average sale prices have slumped in August - so what's behind the slight cooling off of the market?

The business community has, until now, been watching the Dirty Politics scandals play out with bemusement and a certain degree of detachment.

Some university graduates hoping to break into well-paid careers are working months at a time as unpaid interns.

Feminist economist Professor Marilyn Waring is this year's winner of the NZIER Economics award.

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has vowed to fight a formal accusation that she acted negligently and permitted an alleged 400 million fraud when she was French finance minister.

When thousands of university students graduate each year with shiny new degrees, competition for the best graduate jobs and internships can be fierce.

Voters will know where Labour stands on buying back partially-sold power companies before the election, leader David Cunliffe says.

Would you let your boss trawl through your Facebook page? A global survey asked 10,000 participants just that question - so how many said yes?

Paige Toft and Braden Alsford count themselves lucky when it comes to making career choices.

Recently released profit figures confirm that our largest listed companies have not taken full advantage of the buoyant economy.

A man was unfairly sacked from his father's company after a row about gossiping, the Employment Relations Authority says.

The social network is finding itself caught between being an open forum and patrolling for inappropriate content.

New Zealand's economic recovery is tentatively under way, albeit with a few wobbles.