Ensuring workplace wellbeing is vital for businesses and individuals. Your staff are your most valuable resource, and if they’re unhappy, their productivity will suffer and they’ll be more likely to leave. Given the skills shortage that many Australian businesses are ...

The world will emerge changed from the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure of transport, business and schools has forced the world into a sharp learning curve in using new technologies and ways of living and working. These are some permanent shifts ...

With everyone cast out of their offices and forced to work remotely due to the Coronavirus nightmare, one of the biggest questions is: which is the best videoconferencing platform to use? Many of us are having to use a range ...

KPMG recently issued 20 Predictions for the Next 20 Years. They cover trends ranging from “Social and People” to “Political and Regulatory”. Five of the most interesting ones are: 1. There is (human) life on Mars The next 20 years ...

Despite an exodus of financial planners from the wealth industry, alternatives such as robo advice are struggling to get traction. Since the banking royal commission major banks have exited the wealth market, and many financial planners have simply quit the ...

The big four banks are expected to meet the extended deadline for open banking compliance in February 2020, though one bank “might be struggling”, according to delegates at the 4th Open Banking and APIs conference in Sydney this week. The ...

Blockchain has been one of the biggest buzzwords at Sibos 2018. It’s being embraced as a way for financial institutions to have more efficient systems, removing the need to reconcile multiple disparate databases and enabling real-time accounting. But there’s still ...

Demand is growing for healthier workplaces as increased evidence links sedentary work to poor health effects. Co-working spaces are among those leading the trend for healthier office design. Sedentary behaviours are a known risk factor for cancer, cardiovascular disease, type ...

It’s easy to make New Year’s resolutions for your business – but much harder to keep them. So after resolving to get your business shipshape for 2017, or to grow your profits by a certain percentage, how can you ensure ...

The rise of freelancing is great news for small businesses. It allows owners to access specialist skills on demand without permanently increasing headcount. Flexibility is no longer enough for many workers – they want total freedom. Nearly one in three ...

Advances in automation are empowering lawyers to cut down on labour-intensive, repetitive tasks and instead focus their skills on higher-value work. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) is making this automation much more sophisticated, from error checking to responding to human queries ...

New, flexible co-working spaces are increasingly edging out the old guard of traditional serviced offices in Asia, according to a new report by commercial real-estate firm Colliers International. Several reasons are suggested for the rise of co-working. The first is ...

C2B messaging app URGE is creating a business directory that allows customers to search for a business and text it, providing a real-time messaging service. The growth of internet retail has changed consumers. It’s always on, so shoppers don’t have ...

Businesses in Singapore are more optimistic and employees enjoy a better work life balance than in Hong Kong, according to a new survey by serviced offices provider Compass Offices. The latest Compass Index found that 43% of businesses in Singapore ...

Despite the global economic slowdown, Asia Pacific countries remain optimistic about business growth according to the latest Compass Index from serviced offices provider Compass Offices. Australians are the most confident, with just over half (51%) of Australians feeling “strongly confident” ...

It’s far more interactive and fun. Textbooks are making way for tablets, and traditional written exercises are giving way to games. Games in education is not a new idea: as early as the 1970s researchers began studying the impact of ...

China is an increasingly vital market to businesses and consumers across Australia. It became our largest trading partner in 2009 with two-way trade valued at over $150 billion in 2015 – nearly a quarter of Australia’s total global trade. Over ...

As a small business or startup, you don’t have huge resources. If there’s a cash crunch and you need to pay salaries, or you’ve spotted a great opportunity and want to grow your business, you need funds. So what are ...

What can leaders and professionals do in the IT sector to foster gender diversity and equality? Gender diversity is a problem across the workforce, but it’s particularly severe in IT. According to the Australian Computer Society, based on ABS statistics, ...

Millennials have grown up using devices every waking hour, and their entire existence is interconnected. No wonder they have very specific demands when it comes to the workforce – both in terms of the technology they want to use and how they ...

Social media seems like an easy way to connect with customers and update them about your business, doesn’t it? Brands and businesses need to cultivate a loyal community of followers if they're to have any real impact on social media ...

Mining for data Mining giant Rio Tinto believes it has already saved $90 million through better data processing. Its new Processing Excellence Centre is staffed by 12 mineral experts who continually scrutinise processing data from five coal sites in Australia, ...

Businesses need to embrace new trends and technologies in order to stay ahead, but what are the key technologies that your company should be adopting in 2014? Here are five must-have technologies that are essential for doing business today. Mobile ...