By JAMES ADONIS

OPINION: Attention deficit disorder (ADD) has a cousin penetrating the workplace and it is ODD, or rather, office distraction disorder. A survey released this week by recruitment firm, Robert Walters, revealed the top five office distractions disrupting our focus. The results will make you smile – or squirm.

By ANDREW VINCENT

OPINION: The great thing about sport is that there is some sort of scoring system that lets you know who is winning and who is losing. Of course with having a score you also get the anguish, excitement, exhilaration and disappointment that goes with it. 

By PETER CULLEN

OPINION: Helen Kelly, the president of the Council of Trade Unions, wrote to the prime minister this week announcing what The Dominion Post called "a divorce between unions and the government". The letter was prompted by the announcement of legislative change by the National Government in the employment law area.

By LANCE WIGGS

OPINION: I was lucky enough to make an oral submission at the commerce select committee last week. Lucky because for the first time I got to participate in the law-making process, and I have to say it's an excellent one.

By PATTRICK SMELLIE

OPINION: Yesterday's official cash rate (OCR) hike was the kind of back-handed good news that only a central bank can deliver.

By TIM HUNTER

OPINION: Currency markets are wrong, says Alan Bollard. New Zealand's economy isn't as strong as they think and there was no reason for the kiwi dollar to gain US4c against the greenback in the last four weeks.

By TONY FEATHERSTONE

OPINION: Has there ever been a better opportunity for small retailers to prosper through great service?

By PATTRICK SMELLIE

OPINION: For as long as I can remember, there's been national angst over what to do about superannuation.

By MIKE O'DONNELL

OPINION: The seven deadly sins have provided a pretty useful guide to making money from the internet. Envy has been a big driver to most of the big car websites, while wrath is a key component to much of the blogosphere.

OPINION: If Chalkie's estimates are right that parent company Southbury Finance is effectively worthless, the Government should place South Canterbury Finance into statutory management.

By TERRY HALL

OPINION: Greenies are cock-a- hoop after an easy 1-nil win in the first match in the series in which the combined Government- mining team had sought to investigate the mining potential of parts of the conservation estate.

By PATTRICK SMELLIE

OPINION: The Greens over-reached themselves this week by claiming Environment Minister Nick Smith's support for a 14-month moratorium on the Hurunui River was "the second environmental backdown" this week.

By VALERIE KHOO

OPINION: When you are just starting out in business, it can be a daunting process. You're keen to work and you're happy to go above and beyond the call of duty to help your customers - if only you had some.

By LANCE WIGGS

OPINION: I attended an "unconference" last weekend - BarCamp 4. Picture eight classrooms in a school taken over by a couple of hundred computer geeks and designers, with no agenda but a mandate to participate.

By LEON GETTLER

OPINION: Marriage and relationships can be hard work. When you put two people together from different backgrounds and different traditions, issues will come up. Sacrifices need to be made and compromises reached. Travelling down the same path can have its bumpy patches, but then, if you're unwilling to work at it, chances are it won't last.

By JON MORGAN

OPINION: News keeps on getting worse for the Australian apple industry. Just as a World Trade Organisation report rejecting its ban on New Zealand imports is about to be revealed, it is hit by an even bigger blow - apple imports from China.

OPINION: Any New Zealand company contemplating shifting from the local exchange to Australia will now have to fight the "Nufarm factor".

By OWEN SCOTT

OPINION: Inspiring was the word to describe the unveiling of the Rex Bionics robotic exoskeleton in Auckland. Not only for Rex's potential to transform the lives of paraplegics, but as yet another example of Kiwi ingenuity.

By LEON GETTLER

OPINION: Technology is changing office life, forever. Are we looking at the death of the office? Will cost cutting, mobile technology and the emergence of a generation raised on social networking make the office redundant?

By JAMES ADONIS

OPINION: Forget about absenteeism. There’s a bigger issue infecting workplaces and it’s called ‘presenteeism’.