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• 49% of Australian employers say job candidates are more demanding when it comes to salary this year compared to last year
• 79% of employees say it has become more challenging to negotiate a pay rise this year compared to last year, while 92% of workers plan to ask for a pay rise this year
• Workers want a pay rise to recognise they have consistently exceeded performance goals (38%), have taken on new projects and workload (37%) and to keep pace with the cost of living (31%)
• If an increase is not granted this year, 40% of employees will be patient and maintain a good work ethic but 38% of workers will look for a new job

GUEST OPINION by Robert Half: Sustained inflation and increasing responsibilities are driving growing demands for higher salaries this year but tech employees are finding it challenging to negotiate an increase in pay, the newly released Robert Half 2025 Salary Guide reveals.

Coco Hou CPA is calling on professionals working in accounting and finance to consider taking on a side hustle in bookkeeping and accounting to meet the growing demand from businesses in need of accounting services and to help earn more money to help with household bills. 

Workers in Australia and around the world are expressing low levels of trust in their bosses’ ability to implement AI effectively, according to new research from Qualtrics.

GUEST RESEARCH:  New research from Humanforce reveals almost 70% of Australian workers abandon job applications due to confusing or difficult recruitment processes. This alarming trend, where potential employees are disengaging from companies during, and sometimes before, their recruitment journey, poses a significant issue for employers operating in today’s extremely tight job market.

GUEST OPINION: Forget quiet quitting. The latest trend is quiet hiring. Rather than hiring new staff, employers are turning to technology to enable employee career growth, providing new opportunities to elevate and evolve their current roles.

GUEST RESEARCH by Cloud Assess: Despite the growing reliance on digital for most workers, a recent study has found that a large percentage of essential “deskless” employees receive little technology support and feel disconnected from their employers.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Juniper's quest to uncover exceptionally advanced, AI-powered wired and Wi-Fi connectivity is reaping rich rewards for enterprises, universities and organisations, with Dartmouth College an excellent example, as Juniper is set to speak at QUESTnet 2021 at QUT, Nov 29 to Dec 1.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Juniper's quest to uncover exceptionally advanced, AI-powered wired and Wi-Fi connectivity is reaping rich rewards for enterprises, universities and organisations, with Dartmouth College an excellent example, as Juniper is set to speak at QUESTnet 2021 at QUT, Nov 29 to Dec 1.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Gerhard Schweinitz, is the APAC Head of Talent at Contino, the global enterprise digital transformation consultancy, and he joined iTWireTV to discuss the company, its successes, how to retain top tech talent and plenty more.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Gerhard Schweinitz, is the APAC Head of Talent at Contino, the global enterprise digital transformation consultancy, and he joined iTWireTV to discuss the company, its successes, how to retain top tech talent and plenty more.

Australian employees are working longer hours, feeling more pressure to be ‘always on’ and are more likely to switch jobs than most global regions, according to new research from Adobe.

Three in five Australian workers are open to their employer mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace, according to the June quarter Employee Sentiment Index (ESI) from cloud-based HR provider Elmo Software.

With the Communications Workers Union (CWU) calling for a National Senate Inquiry into what it calls the "shambolic NBN network", over 100 subcontractors arrived outside the NBN Co North Sydney office to "protest against the NBN Co's shambolic management and pyramid contracting scheme that's leaving workers struggling to make ends meet."

talentCRU: it's a truly talented crew of top workers in teams of 'tribes', ready to tackle any tech task, in what is a thoroughly modern and impressive working stye that truly takes into account the modern work/life balance while being fully compatible with the post COVID-19 reality of on-demand WFH.

Working from home – but how hard? Helping remote employees connect more effectively is a great way to improve productivity

GUEST OPINION by Brendan Maree, Vice President Asia Pacific, 8x8: So, how’s that remote working experiment working out for your business? It’s been a year now since the onset of the COVID crisis forced Australian businesses and organisations to shutter their offices and send employees home. In April and May of last year, almost a third of Australians workers were toiling in their home offices, according to Roy Morgan research.

The union that represents workers and contractors at NBN Co has described as "appalling" the fact that three-quarters of the staff are senior employees who earn six-figure salaries, while hundreds of jobs at base levels have been slashed.

More than 604,000 private sector jobs have been “destroyed” since lockdowns were introduced in March while 14,000 jobs have been added to the public sector, according to the Institute of Public Affairs.

Upskilling workers with vital innovation capabilities is key for the future employment landscape, according to a study by Flinders University Professor Giselle Rampersad which also found that for workers of the future to thrive with robots and artificial intelligence, they will need to learn innovation through strong Worker Integrated Learning programs.