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Wizards of Oz enjoy an oxymoron

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Sick of kow-towing to the boss and working yourself into such a knotted ball of stress you actually look forward to pounding a treadmill and staring out a window?

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Perhaps you're a Hong Kong finance and IT professional in the prime of life who has just been 'liberated' from the drudgery of the workplace?

Outplacement firms working for the freshly retrenched are reporting their business is up 30 per cent on last summer and gleefully expecting their books to get bigger.

Recruitment firms say the terrorist attacks in the US has pushed re-hiring plans even further back into next year.

If you're under 30, a new scheme has just made it easier to skip town and head for a sabbatical in Australia.

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(To say Down Under would be as much a cultural betrayal as 'throw a shrimp on the barbie'. Note to Paul Hogan: any self-respecting Aussie would have said 'chuck' a 'prawn' on that sizzling backyard barbecue, even if the US target audience wouldn't have known what he meant.

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