• Business

    Business

    ANZ’s four-day work week pilot success a “game changer” for how we work


    Joe Jiang |  July 5, 2023


    Successful trials of the four-day work week in Australia and New Zealand have signalled a need to transform the way we work to achieve sustainable benefits for the employee, the organisation and society, RMIT Professor Zhou (Joe) Jiang, explains.


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  • Finance

    Finance

    Australian middle market continues to power ahead as the engine room of economy


    Mick Wright-Smith |  June 30, 2023


    Banks face several key challenges in lending to middle market companies, Mick Wright-Smith, Co-Founder and Partner, Epsilon Direct Lending explains.


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  • Digital transformation

    Digital transformation

    Embrace digital transformation now or risk falling behind


    Adrian Floate |  June 26, 2023


    Businesses of all sizes need to embrace digital transformation – especially in how they make/accept invoice payments and how this impacts cash flow – as a means of survival in today’s uncertain economic environment, Adrian Floate Managing Director of Spenda explains.


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  • Retail

    Retail

    Retail recession will be life-changing for consumers


    First 5000 |  June 23, 2023


    According to customer experience expert, Lyndall Spooner of Fifth Dimension, the retail recession will be life-changing in a positive way for consumers. While brands are going under and there is blood on the streets, consumers will be the winners.


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  • Digital transformation

    Digital transformation

    SMES to benefit from staff training, digital investment


    First 5000 |  June 22, 2023


    Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) is encouraging SMEs businesses to act now if they want to benefit from a new tax incentive to train their employees and digitise their business.


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  • Cyber security Have your say

    Cyber security Have your say

    ASIC invites Australian entities to assess their cyber resilience


    First 5000 |  June 21, 2023


    ASIC-regulated entities, including mid market businesses, publicly listed companies, other entities holding licences and authorisations, are invited to take part in a survey to measure cyber resilience in Australia’s corporate and financial markets. 


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  • Human resources

    Human resources

    Changes to pay secrecy explained


    Sean Melbourne |  June 14, 2023


    Penalties for pay secrecy clauses have been updated. Sean Melbourne from professional services company Source explains what employers and employees can and can’t do when it comes to pay secrecy.


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  • Superannuation

    Superannuation

    Federal Government announces payday super from 1 July 2026


    First 5000 |  June 1, 2023


    The Albanese Government has announced it will require super to be paid at the same time as salary and wages from 1 July 2026.


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Latest News

  • Victorian Chamber to launch Swinburne University and Victorian businesses into space

    First 5000     |      February 19, 2019

    Space is not the final frontier for Victorian businesses. The space industry is a rapidly emerging sector presenting opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Leading the charge in this booming field in Victoria are researchers from Swinburne University of Technology.

  • Do your employees trust you?

    Rachel Bevans     |      February 19, 2019

    In the wake of the Banking Royal Commission Report, it’s worth taking a close look at the findings from the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Global Report launched in January.

  • Amended legislation will keep more people in super system: AIST

    First 5000     |      February 19, 2019

    The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), has welcomed the passage of the Protecting Your Super package, noting that important amendments would protect members from unintended consequences of the new legislation.

  • Supporting Australian SME exporters to go global report released

    First 5000     |      February 18, 2019

    Federal parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade has released its report ‘From little things big things grow: Supporting Australian SMEs go global’ following an inquiry into access to free trade agreements by small and medium enterprises.

  • Report on Austrade and foreign direct investment

    First 5000     |      February 18, 2019

    The Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth today released its report on Austrade’s role in attracting investment into Australia.

  • A brief guide to employee benefits for SMBs

    Keith Coppersmith     |      February 18, 2019

    Aside from ensuring a good cultural fit, proper work condition and environment, as well as competitive salaries, you must also focus on employee benefits, in order to ensure their satisfaction and their retention.

  • New super laws to benefit members

    First 5000     |      February 17, 2019

    Two superannuation bills which passed the Senate with extensive amendments will help curtail super balances being eroded by unnecessary fees and signal the beginning of the end for underperforming, fee gouging super funds.

  • Amended bill would give small businesses a ‘fair go’ in court

    First 5000     |      February 17, 2019

    The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell supports the amended bill, championed by Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh that passed the Senate which would allow small businesses better access to justice when in dispute with big business or government.

  • How to turn the tables on digital disruptors

    First 5000     |      February 17, 2019

    New book co-authored by Heidrick & Struggles’ Scott Snyder presents six rules to help business leaders become digital disruptors and make talent the centerpiece of their company’s digital innovation strategy.

  • How to optimise thermal comfort in an office space

    Lillian Connors     |      February 16, 2019

    Being stuck in an office for hours and hours every single day is hard, but being stuck in an office with poor thermal control is even harder

  • National centre of excellence in quantum opens at UNSW

    First 5000     |      February 16, 2019

    The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) at UNSW Sydney was officially launched yesterday, receiving $33.7 million in federal funding to continue its development of the world’s first quantum computer in silicon.

  • Changes to communications landscape accelerating

    First 5000     |      February 16, 2019

    Australians’ ever-increasing appetite for data-hungry video services is transforming the communications landscape.

  • SME confidence and conditions continue to ease: NAB

    First 5000     |      February 15, 2019

    Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) business conditions continued to decline with conditions remain just above average, while confidence is now well below average, according to the NAB SME Survey for Q4 2018.

  • WridgWays – The Removalist returns to local ownership

    First 5000     |      February 15, 2019

    WridgWays – The Removalist which now stands on its own after a decade of foreign ownership, understands it faces some challenges in recapturing the heart of the Australian public, but with a strong vision and team, its CEO believes it can be done.

  • Keep calm about electricity reliability

    Tony Wood     |      February 15, 2019

    The popular perception that Australia’s electricity supply has become less reliable with more renewable energy, and that this is inevitably going to get worse, is wrong and dangerous, according to a new Grattan Institute report.