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Last week the Fair Work Commission ruled in favour of putting a floor of $25.41 per hour in the award for pickers in the horticulture sector. The move effectively abolishes piece rates where workers are paid based on how much they pick rather than an hourly rate. The Commission found that a “significant” proportion of pickers earned less than the..
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Good people make difficult things easy. The others find amazingly innovative ways to make simple things difficult. Active avoidance of any dealings with people in the second group is a genuinely worthwhile pursuit.
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We posted this image on our Facebook page on the 25th of October in 2012. It’s even more relevant today with the technology available to us and the ability to instantly Google anything we want to learn. We have so many resources and so much data available in our businesses but we too often use them like the ladders in..
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Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the time available. And this is important because it is a key driver of productivity, or more correctly, lack of productivity. If you give someone a week to complete a task, they will usually take a week. If you give them two days to complete the same task they’ll probably complete it in..
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In September 2000, Deb and I started Badcocks Pty Ltd with a handful of clients operating from a spare room in our house in North Street, Devonport. Our vision was to help small business owners build a business that worked for them rather than the other way around. We changed the name to Unicorn Business Solutions a few years later..
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Unicorn Business Solutions are based in Devonport Tasmania, with clients around Australia.
