Patterns & Pressure
Insights on financial pressure and psychosocial safety at work — for the people who can see it in the data and can't yet name it.
I asked twenty-six people directly. Nobody said no.
Published on: 05/09/2026
One room, one question, and a result that says less about the room than about how rarely anybody asks it.
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Construction does not have a worse problem. It has a clearer view of it.
Published on: 14/08/2026
The evidence says industry does not predict distress. What construction has is a financial structure unusually exposed to view, which makes the mechanism legible in a way it is not elsewhere.
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More than a quarter of Australians have told nobody
Published on: 07/08/2026
Over a quarter of Australians hold a financial worry they have never shared with anyone. Which makes concealment, not prevalence, the thing your data is actually measuring.
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The most expensive claim on your books
Published on: 24/07/2026
Mental health conditions now account for 12% of serious workers compensation claims, at a median of $67,400 against $16,300 across all serious claims. The decade trend is the part worth reading.
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