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May 2021

Is WFH all it’s cracked up to be?

By: Odyssey General, Outsourcing
Tags: ACCOUNTANTS, accounting outsourcing, accounting outsourcing australia, australian accounting firm, australian outsourcing expert, outsourcing guru, Remote working, work from home, working overseas

In 2020, Aussie startup Atlassian started allowing employees to work from home permanently, and Atlassian employees will no longer be required to return to the office when an easing of coronavirus restrictions allow them to do so. Fast forward to 2021, and Atlassian has recently announced staff only need to attend the office four times a year.  It’s currently regarded …

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May 2021

Australians happier to import workers for some jobs

By: Odyssey General, Outsourcing

In an interesting news article recently the fed-up Federal Employment minister urged unemployed Australians to stop relying on their neighbours and go out and find a job. Perhaps the most important statement of the article was we have “we got to a point where we are happy for Australians to say ‘no, you don’t have to do those jobs, we’ll …

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May 2021

Can Australian accountants be consistent high performers?

By: Odyssey General

I had dinner the other night with an accounting firm owner who was in his mid 60’s, still enjoying life, and handing over his firm to the next generation of accountants. At the same time, we were comparing the Big 4 accounting firms we’d worked in, and discussing accountants we’d known who had already passed away in their 60’s, so …