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Jun 2021

Labour Shortage: COVID to impact labour for up to 5 years: Future and Solutions for Accounting Firm Owners

By: Odyssey General, Outsourcing
Tags: COVID19, labour shortage

Advertising for jobs has been made more complex not only due to digitisation of the advertising landscape, but also due to mobility issues of employees due to border lockdowns (both state and federal). It’s been noted one in five Australian businesses are facing a labour resource issue. Labour shortage has been over the news lately with some industries experiencing an …

17

Jun 2021

Blog double trouble for Australian accountants

By: Odyssey General, Outsourcing
Tags: Australian accountants, Foreign Workers, labour shortage, Outsourcing

CPA Australia recently released an article on Australia’s reduction in migration numbers, commenting the effects are likely to last for years to come. For Australian accounting firm owners, there are going to be 3 main impacts: Many Australian businesses are going to struggle with finding Australian based workers, with a likelihood of wages growth going to cut down margins in …

10

Jun 2021

Australia lacks workers

By: Odyssey General, Outsourcing
Tags: labour shortage, Outsourcing

In an interesting opinion article last week, businesses across Australia are battling labour shortages as the economy lifts out of the Covid slowdown. Many of the shortages are easily understandable with the lack of working tourists being unavailable with the cessation of international travel, along with restaurants closing a couple of days each week due to lack of staff partly …

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Jun 2021

Australian compliance: the flight to quality offshore

By: Odyssey General, Outsourcing
Tags: Australian accountants, australian accounting firm, australian compliance outsourcing, australian outsourcing expert, offshore, offshore teams, Outsourcing, outsourcing partner, outsourcing quality, Remote working

For the past decade Australian accountants have been hearing of digital transformation, automation, data scraping and a dozen other terms that were on one hand labour saving, and on the other hand job threatening. For some, it’s been about as interesting as watching paint dry. Even with Covid-19 forcing the shift to at-home work, the resulting innovation has not resulted …