• 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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  • Slow wages growth and decline in housing starts threaten economy: report

    First 5000     |      August 15, 2019

    Flatlining wages growth, decades of massive price increases and the looming largest decline in housing commencements set to come on in the next calendar year threatens to impact the economy without response says a new affordable housing report released today by PowerHousing Australia informed by CoreLogic. 

  • Tourism sector flies the flag for jobs growth

    First 5000     |      August 15, 2019

    The Victoria Tourism Industry Council (VTIC) has welcomed Tourism Research Australia’s recent 2017-18 State Tourism Satellite Account (STSA) results, which show the tourism industry is a major contributor to Australia’s economy and job creation.

  • Should You Consider Becoming a Freelance Developer?

    Zack Halliwell     |      August 14, 2019

    The reality of the modern workforce is that freelancing is one of the biggest growing sectors, with many markets now boasting a wide freelance contingency. It removes some of the limits of modern life, while allowing for greater creative freedom and more chance to grow; both for the company doing the hiring and for the […]

  • Inclusion: Let’s Talk Business

    Taylor Hawkins     |      August 14, 2019

    For too long the discussion of diversity and inclusion has been restricted to the confines of human resources and deemed as a ‘nice to have’ culture piece. However, with stockpiles of evidence accumulating that demonstrate the commercial benefits of inclusive workplace practices, this time has long passed.

  • Audit highlights role of engineers in infrastructure planning

    First 5000     |      August 14, 2019

    Engineers Australia has welcomed the release of the 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit as the first step in identifying nationally significant reform and investment priorities to meet Australia’s long-term infrastructure needs.

  • Workplace Advice Service marks one-year anniversary

    First 5000     |      August 14, 2019

    August marks the one-year anniversary of the Workplace Advice Service, a free legal assistance program coordinated by the Fair Work Commission.

  • Cyber Security Centre warns businesses of security threat

    First 5000     |      August 13, 2019

    Thousands of Australian businesses using older Windows systems should immediately install a patch to avoid being compromised.

  • Cleaners, couriers, and construction industry reminded to lodge TPAR

    First 5000     |      August 13, 2019

    Businesses that provide cleaning or courier services, as well as businesses in the building and construction industry may need to lodge a Taxable Payments Annual Report (TPAR) with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) by 28 August 2019. 

  • online presence

    Powerful strategies to increase your online presence

    Raul Harman     |      August 13, 2019

    What is your business doing to make itself stand out from the crowd? Raul Harman shares his insights into how to create a powerful online strategy to boost your web presence. 

  • Trade and Investment Growth Inquiry Commences

    First 5000     |      August 12, 2019

    The Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth has commenced an Inquiry into Supporting Australia’s Exports and Attracting Investment. Submissions from interested individuals, businesses and organisations are invited by Monday, 23 September 2019.

  • Partners, children and broken families: the other casualties of advice industry reform

    Barry Daniels     |      August 12, 2019

    Whilst the enormity of mental health consequences has rarely received a second thought by legislators even less regard has been given to the impact on the partners and children of financial planners.

  • How I mastered my elevator pitch

    Alan Manly     |      August 12, 2019

    Everybody in business has a pitch. To overcome my discomfort with the hard sell I have refined a method that helped master the elevator pitch.

  • Brighter, bolder future for Australian girls

    First 5000     |      August 9, 2019

    A cooperative alliance to build girls’ participation in entrepreneurship and STEM kicks off today as leaders from a range of sectors gather in Sydney as part of the Future Female Entrepreneurs Program.

  • Health is not a short-term issue

    Martin Bowles     |      August 9, 2019

    The Chair of Australia’s Health 2040 Taskforce Martin Bowles AO PSM explains the rationale behind the Taskforce report and its recommendations.

  • SME groups call to increase cost of lodging unfair dismissal claims

    First 5000     |      August 9, 2019

    Two leading voices for Australia’s small and medium sized businesses, Employsure and the Small Business Association of Australia (SBAA), have today announced a new partnership to advocate two key areas of workplace reform.