Billions in lost revenue, 10,000 jobs lost: How COVID-19 will undermine Australia’s research capacity
The COVID-19 pandemic poses one of the most significant threats in history to Australia’s national research capacity, well beyond the medical sciences.
Choice Energy’s Christopher Dean shares his coronavirus diary: May 13, 2020
Choice Energy chief executive Christopher Dean shares his first coronavirus diary and reflects on how he's been communicating with his team during the pandemic.
Refusing to return after lockdown: What to do if staff want to continue working from home
As coronavirus restrictions are lifted, at what point in time can an employer require their employees to physically return to the workplace?
Favourable or foolish? Should I launch a startup in the middle of a pandemic?
Between questioning and economic opportunities, COVID-19 could well be offering entrepreneurs fertile ground to launch a startup.
The fixed per-worker subsidy was a bad idea: How the government could tweak JobKeeper
Treasury is reevaluating the design of JobKeeper, so it’s worth setting out where the scheme falls short and how it could be tweaked.
Coronavirus update for business: Queensland bids for Virgin Australia, crowdsourced COVIDSafe solutions, and UberEats cuts fees… a bit
The Queensland government bids to save Virgin Australia, a VC firm is crowdsourcing ideas to boost COVIDSafe uptake, and Uber kinda bows to pressure.
Disrupting the disruptors: How restaurants and startups are flipping the table on meal platforms, and why UberEats should be worried
As anger boils about meal delivery commissions, startups are looking to disrupt UberEats and Deliveroo, leaving platforms with an industry-defining choice.
“Transformational change”: Social enterprise sees 5800% uptick in demand, as COVID-19 drives telehealth boom
Remote speech therapy startup Umbo has seen a 5800% increase in demand for its training courses, and a 1000% increase in clinicians signing up.
‘Giving money to UberEats doesn’t help the local economy’: How FairFeed is creating a hospitality movement
Melbourne chef and business owner Tom Jacobson has brought together a network of chefs and hospitality workers to start the FairFeed Community Project.
PoweredLocal co-founder Michael Jankie: Our startup experience means we can weather the COVID-19 storm
PoweredLocal co-founder Michael Jankie shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his startup, and how it's now planning for growth that will come when restrictions are eased.
Leadership in a crisis: You need to ask your team these six questions
Not only are business owners, founders and team leaders now leading remote, virtual teams, but they are leading remote, virtual teams through a crisis.
Growing market share is easier in a recession than a boom: Here’s how to do it
History gives us innumerable examples of businesses and startups using recessions to grow market share by increasing marketing spend.
