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Aussie shoppers are expected to splurge $11 billion on Christmas spending this year — with shopping online proving more popular than last year — and with Saturday, 16 December, likely to see six million Australians do most of their shopping, according to a new report.

Finding new staff, dealing with payroll compliance, the ability to dismiss employees and end-of-year paperwork are major problems for small business owners, according to a newly released report which reveals the significant pressures weighing down SMEs in managing their businesses.

The number of business owners dissatisfied with the level of support they receive from government is now out-numbering those who are satisfied, with the level of dissatisfaction increasing over the last six months leading up to this weekend's election.

Security is always a concern with financial transactions conducted online and the explosion in smartphone use for everything from mobile banking, buying event tickets to paying bills means that it’s a number one priority for both consumers and financial services providers.

Australia’s Generation Ys – those born during the 1980s and early 1990s – are a ‘freedom loving’ bunch more likely to consider quitting their job to work for themselves, and also claiming that corporate loyalty is an outdated concept.

Strong business confidence and increasing digital disruption augurs well for Australian small businesses this year, according to a senior executive of Australia’s largest telco.

Australia’s white collar professionals consistently lag behind their counterparts in other countries on productivity, with the country sitting second last on the global productivity scale and newly published research showing that Aussie workers have an unrealised average daily productivity capacity of 26%.

Twitter's once-popular video sharing app, Vine, may soon be a thing of the past, if current trends continue.