This We Know

Since 1 July 2026, employers in Australia have had to pay super in a new way. The change is called Payday Super. It means super for your employees goes out each time you pay their wages. For many small businesses that is a big change from the old quarterly routine.

The new rules apply to earnings paid from 1 July 2026. Anything paid up to 30 June 2026 still sits under the old quarterly super guarantee rules. If your payroll and cash flow are not set up for this yet, now is a good time to fix it.

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Temporary workers play an important role in the construction industry.  Are they right for your project? Check out these pros and cons of hiring temporary labour.

Hire help as you need it

With all businesses there are slow times, steady times and then those times when business is booming.

The most economical way to cater for these unpredictable fluctuations is to employ skeleton permanent staff and then hire the remaining help as you need it.

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When some business owners read the words “considerations” and “relocation” they believe it relates to the logistics of the move, so, that means considering what removalists to use and what packing materials they will need.

As vitally important as those two are for successful office relocation, the considerations we are referring to have more significant and long term effects upon the business in question.

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When working in your divorce law business each day, does it feel that everything is following a specific and consistent process?

Alternatively, do you get the feeling that, no matter how diligent you are, each task you and your family law colleagues perform takes a random course?

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It’s unfortunate to know that many people do not often think twice about those painted lines beneath their tyres.

Every day, drivers would pull into bays, follow the arrows, and try to avoid scraping a pillar, until one day, these markings were not that visible anymore.

And that’s when everything changes.

Cars park with faded or confusing striping become a strange kind of no-man’s land where hesitation replaces flow, risk replaces routine, and complaints start piling up.

That’s usually when facility managers realise they need professionals like Delineation Line Marking to sort things out before someone actually causes damage or lodges a formal complaint.

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During the Covid pandemic, there were very few businesses and business sectors that were not adversely affected and landscaping companies were among them.

Given the various lockdown rules and the need for social distancing, even though the garden is an outdoor space, there were few opportunities for landscapers and their clients to meet and discuss new garden designs.

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Successful inventory management is vital for every business to avoid waste and losses, and one option available to assist with those aims is to rent secure storage units from a commercial storage facility.

By getting a proper inventory management system in place with the help of secure storage units, you will avoid unnecessary purchase orders, expired excess stock, and wasted working hours trying to deal with all those issues.

In this blog post, we will take a more detailed look at why effective stock management is vital and, specifically, how to use a secure storage facility as an integral part of what will make implementing your stock management easier for you.

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When acquiring commercial furniture for a business, education center, health facility, or any other organization type, you have no shortage of choices. These choices include the style, the quantity, the specific furniture items, the colors, and the amount you will spend on it all.

The last of those, spending, will be influenced by many factors, especially another choice you must make…Do you lease or buy commercial office furniture?

It is a choice that will influence many things, not least what you must pay upfront for your office furniture, any ongoing payments, and the total amount you will spend. It may also make a difference to the quantity, type, and quality of the office furniture you can acquire. Investing in premium quality furniture from trusted brands including atama.com.au, would have more benefits than buying cheap furniture from Kmart or IKEA.

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One of the comments that can be heard when someone enters drug rehab is from someone with them, be that a loved one, a friend, or their employer, which is, “I had no idea”.

Granted, if someone has a drug addiction, it is more than likely that those in their family or their circle of friends would know; however, when it comes to their employer, it is undoubtedly the case that they are often the last to know.

We say that not to suggest that employers do not care about employees who are facing up to drug problems and getting help for it.

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If we were to examine the two extremes of employers’ views on employees who have drug problems, we would have those who would dismiss them without so much as a goodbye and those who would fully support their recovery and possibly even fund them entering drug rehabs in Perth.

Thankfully, far more employers tend towards the latter attitude than the former.

We have to caveat that last statement by saying that we are not advocating that employers should let employees openly use drugs and turn a blind eye to it.

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Moving a safe is far from a simple task, it requires careful planning and the right approach to ensure it’s done safely and efficiently.

Safes are designed to withstand pressure, damage, and tampering, so they tend to be extremely heavy and often bolted to the floor or embedded in walls.

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