Wages stories

Global wage inflation for IT TSPs set to improve in 2025
Thu, 26th Dec 2024
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Service Leadership's latest report forecasts significant improvements in wage inflation for IT solution providers in 2025, following a stagnant 2023.

High AI wages & gender gap in Australia, reveals Randstad study
Wed, 8th May 2024
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Australia is among the top three countries paying premium wages for AI skills, however, men still dominate with 81% of the workforce, reveals a Randstad study.

Exclusive: How Advanced is helping businesses solve wage theft
Mon, 11th Dec 2023
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In an interview with Adam Bowles, Country Director for Australia at Advanced, he reveals how technology tackles wage theft complexities in Australian businesses.

Humanforce acquires on-demand pay provider Wagestream
Wed, 15th Feb 2023
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Humanforce, a global provider of workforce management solutions, has acquired Wagestream, Australia's largest on-demand pay provider.

Xero reveals slowdown in Australian small businesses
Thu, 22nd Dec 2022
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The Xero Small Business Index fell three points in November to 116 points, driven by a slowdown across three sub-metrics.

Xero reveals slowdown in Australian small businesses
Wed, 21st Dec 2022
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The Xero Small Business Index fell three points in November to 116 points, driven by a slowdown across three sub-metrics.

Xero reveals declining Australian small business performance
Wed, 30th Nov 2022
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The Index fell 13 points in October to 115 points, driven by four sub-metrics: sales, wages, jobs, and time to be paid.

MYOB reveals gender wage gap in SMEs across Australia and NZ
Thu, 22nd Sep 2022
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The gender wage gap among employees of SMEs is sitting at 7.5% in favour of men, when comparing median hourly wages.

Fintech software allows employees to access wages before payday
Fri, 15th Jul 2022
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Paytime is a tech platform that plugs into payroll software allowing employees to access a portion of their earned pay before payday.

Three years to afford an iPhone? New global data reveals how long it could take you
Fri, 4th Feb 2022
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The affordability of the latest iPhone model has been put to the test in a new global study, and New Zealanders may have to start saving their pennies.

Salary satisfaction for Australian IT workers plummets as 75% ask for pay rises
Tue, 10th Mar 2020
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The research, which surveyed over 3,000 employers and employees from across Australia, found three in every four IT workers were planning to ask for a pay rise.

IT remains NZ’s highest earning industry as Auckland and Wellington battle for best wages
Tue, 10th Jul 2018
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Auckland and Wellington compete closely for top wages in NZ, but IT remains the highest earning industry with average salaries at NZD $112,811.

NZCTU: New Zealand, we need to talk about wages...
Wed, 1st Nov 2017
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New Zealand's pay system favours executives while neglecting average workers, warns NZCTU president, urging new wage negotiation methods to bridge the gap.

Cisco NZ takes a hit as revenue drops and losses increase
Wed, 16th Mar 2016
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Cisco Systems NZ faces financial woes as revenues fall 11% to $22.2m and losses soar by 162% to $804,635 in the 2015 fiscal year.

NZ government turns to $269 mln deficit in 8 months to February
Fri, 10th Apr 2015
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The New Zealand government turned to a deficit in the first eight months of the financial year, although the shortfall was smaller than forecast as th.

Warehouse says 63% of permanent staff now on 'career retailer wage'
Fri, 20th Mar 2015
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Mark Powell says he hopes to eventually see someone promoted to his role that started out in the Red Shirts in Schools programme as a 16 year old.

NZ inflation expectations slide as growth prospects slow, RBNZ survey
Tue, 25th Nov 2014
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economy
New Zealand businesses have trimmed their expectations for consumer inflation over the next two years as the rosy outlook for a booming economy com.

Kiwi SMES show strongest growth in five years, Australian counterparts dawdle
Wed, 5th Nov 2014
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New Zealand's small and medium-sized businesses are recording their fastest sales growth since 2009 compared to a steady-as-they-go effort by their.

NZNET trouble - we dig deeper
Thu, 27th Oct 2011
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Tales of court action, shareholder disagreements, employment disputes and frozen bank accounts for local ISP and hosting company.