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Should your next employee be a robot?  10/28/2015
Should your next employee be a robot?
"Right, so the job is basically 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no breaks, no holidays, no perks, no salary, no super, and no rights. Happy? Great, you can start today!"
Why stepping outside your comfort zone is the key to growth  10/8/2015
Why stepping outside your comfort zone is the key to growth
Well, you could start by asking one of the most successful businesspeople in the world today, Richard Branson. He believes that far too many businesses aren't prepared to take ...
The key steps to building robotic process automation  10/7/2015
The key steps to building robotic process automation
Will it work? Won't it work? Until recently these were the rather unhelpful questions businesses building robotic process automation (RPA) were asking themselves. Now, thankfully, ...
Best practices for maintenance supervisors  10/7/2015
Best practices for maintenance supervisors
Question: who has the biggest impact on the reliability of your manufacturing production? Is it the machine operators? Is it the workers feeding the line? Or is it the people upstairs ...
Why hiring the best person beats hiring the best resume  9/28/2015
Why hiring the best person beats hiring the best resume
"Well, they looked good on paper." If you've ever said that about a recruitment misjudgement you're far from alone. Resumes are designed to make candidates look good; they're ...
Resource industry calls for further changes to workplace laws  9/23/2015
Resource industry calls for further changes to workplace laws
Draft recommendations to improve Australia's workplace relations framework contain some positive proposals but do not go far enough to tackle serious economic challenges facing our ...
Universities welcome collaboration in education and innovation  9/21/2015
Universities welcome collaboration in education and innovation
Universities Australia is calling on the Government to immediately dump the proposed 20 per cent cut to university funding and reverse the decline in public investment in research ...
How to buy a cost effective and efficient CNC milling device  9/21/2015
How to buy a cost effective and efficient CNC milling device
Milling is one of the most common processes used by industry and machine shops to cut and drill parts into precise, often intricate shapes and configurations. CNC, or computer ...
Futuristic alloys stronger than steel, yet malleable like chewing gum  9/16/2015
Futuristic alloys stronger than steel, yet malleable like chewing gum
UNSW researchers have created an 'instruction manual' for developing metallic glass – an ultra-tough yet flexible alloy described as the most significant materials science innovation ...
WA resources industry valued at $99.5 billion in 2014-15  9/14/2015
WA resources industry valued at $99.5 billion in 2014-15
Western Australia's mineral and petroleum industry was valued at $99.5 billion in 2014-15 according to statistics released by the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP).
China FTA: farming industry calls for less politics, more goal kicks  9/10/2015
China FTA: farming industry calls for less politics, more goal kicks
According to Simon Talbot, Chief Executive Officer of the National Farmers' Federation, political point scoring on the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement is a distraction from ...
Manufacturing company pays Sri Lankan visa-holders just $8 an hour  9/2/2015
Manufacturing company pays Sri Lankan visa-holders just $8 an hour
A Sydney manufacturing company and one of its directors will face Court after allegedly paying a Sri Lankan couple as little as $8 an hour.
4 Creative Job Perks That Cost You Little and Gain a Lot  9/2/2015
4 Creative Job Perks That Cost You Little and Gain a Lot
The connotations of the word 'perk' seem to be as negative as they are positive these days. Yet there are genuine company perks that can make a big difference to staff morale, ...
Industry groups say China-Australia FTA 'great' for Australian jobs  8/31/2015
Industry groups say China-Australia FTA 'great' for Australian jobs
Australia may miss out on a surge in jobs and export opportunities if the Parliament delays approving the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), prompting three major industry ...
Ai Group: VIC long service scheme may cost employers $4m per year  8/27/2015
Ai Group: VIC long service scheme may cost employers $4m per year
In a major submission to the Inquiry into Portability of Long Service Leave Entitlements for Victorian Workers, the Australian Industry Group has demonstrated that a portable long ...
6 Tips for Employing a Customer Loyalty Program That Works  8/24/2015
6 Tips for Employing a Customer Loyalty Program That Works
If all our customers had the sort of loyalty a dog has for his master we'd have nothing to worry about. Unfortunately customer loyalty is as fickle as fashion and as reliable as the ...
Why it's time to bring manufacturing back to Australia  8/16/2015
Why it's time to bring manufacturing back to Australia
If you're old enough to be nostalgic about the 1960s, wistful thoughts probably revolve around black suited Beatles rather than boom times in manufacturing.
25 factory workers underpaid $45,000 due to unchecked system error  8/16/2015
25 factory workers underpaid $45,000 due to unchecked system error
A computer error has resulted in 25 factory workers at Nambucca Heads on the NSW North Coast being short-changed their leave entitlements for eight years.
Govt invests $89bn for strong, sustainable naval shipbuilding industry  8/5/2015
Govt invests $89bn for strong, sustainable naval shipbuilding industry
The Commonwealth Government is delivering a long-term plan for a strong and sustainable naval shipbuilding industry. Over the next 20 years the Government will invest over $89 billion ...
Aust manufacturing & rural exports experienced growth in 2014-15  8/5/2015
Aust manufacturing & rural exports experienced growth in 2014-15
Australia's services, manufacturing and rural exports experienced strong growth in 2014-15, cushioning the impact of lower resource export earnings.
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