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Time to thrive: creating the future through an integrated wellbeing framework
Rachel Bevans | April 14, 2020Businesses and brands are racing to help their employees and customers manage productivity, social isolation and mental health through the rapid digital and life transformation that’s happening to facilitate working from and staying at home.
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How to optimise your workforce with optimism
Brent Churchill | April 9, 2020The key to improving workforce engagement is changing the habits and disciplines of frontline management. It may seem like a dated concept in a world of rapid technical advancement, but managers must talk to their people to foster an engaged team.
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JobKeeper will deliver a lifeline to workers and businesses: CPAs
First 5000 | April 9, 2020The Government’s JobKeeper bills will enable the delivery of critical financial relief for the hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and help will speed up the nation’s economic recovery.
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Iconic Australian brand swaps high fashion for scrubs
First 5000 | April 9, 2020Answering the government call to Australian manufacturers to retool to help the cause, Melbourne-based fashion brand, Fella Hamilton has redeployed staff in their Victorian clothing manufacturing plant to create scrubs and work wear for GPs, nurses and other frontline health workers.
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What’s next? marketing operations in a world after covid
Guy Goldstein | April 8, 2020The world will never go back to the way it was, but what it becomes and where it goes from here is in our hands.
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On the offensive against COVID-19 cyber criminals
First 5000 | April 8, 2020Cyber experts from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) are cracking down on offshore cyber criminals who are targeting Australian households and businesses through devious scams and attacks.
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Virtual offices stay open as essential business infrastructure
First 5000 | April 8, 2020Virtual offices throughout Australia remain open to help businesses during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Working from home successfully doesn’t happen overnight
Nina Fountain | April 7, 2020Did you know it takes up to four months to successfully implement a productive remote work culture? And this is without the added stress of homeschooling, childcare or working next to your partner or housemate.
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Here’s how to protect yourself from COVID-19 themed cyber scams
First 5000 | April 7, 2020An overload of COVID-19 communication sets the perfect scene for malicious actors, says a UNSW cybersecurity expert.
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Labor SA targets employers not COVID: COSBOA
First 5000 | April 7, 2020Automatically blaming employers for COVID-19 won’t stop the disease but will stop employment, according to COSBOA.
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On-demand support via smartphone app booms during coronavirus pandemic
First 5000 | April 6, 2020An Australian tech start-up providing 24/7 on-demand physical and psychological support to companies and institutions says mental health is emerging as the major issue during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Making the shift from survive to thrive
Rachel Bevans | April 6, 2020When do we shift our attitudes and behaviours from survive to thrive? When are the plans suitably in place to make sure everyone is safe and well, so that we can redirect our resources to thinking about the future?
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Proactively preparing key to avoiding scams: Upstream
First 5000 | April 6, 2020As businesses increasingly move towards digital solutions they need to consider measures to protect the company from falling victim to invoice scams.
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Gov investment in airfreight welcomed by Australian vegetable growers
First 5000 | April 3, 2020AUSVEG has welcomed the announcement of the $110 million International Freight Assistance Mechanism from the Federal Government this week, which will allow Australia’s vegetable grower exporters to meet the demand from key international markets for high-quality fresh vegetables.
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Maintaining relationships first step to maintaining productivity
David Westgate | April 3, 2020My new premises look very much like my suburban home and my office looks very much like my spare bedroom. Strangely, my wife thinks it looks like her office too. As do my daughter and her bare-chested boyfriend. In short, my business is bedlam.