Tag: Australia

Business people using laptop on table with making video call meeting to team online and present work projects. Concept working from home.

The remote work necessitated by COVID may be here to stay in five English-speaking countries from Australia to the United States. That’s the conclusion from a study of 250 million online job ads – nearly half of them in this country. The number of postings in January that offered remote work for one or more days per…

Senior woman doing finances at home

The brief’s key findings are: Australia’s retirement system has two key components: a means-tested government benefit and a mandatory savings account financed by employers. The government benefit provides a basic income, and about three quarters of retirees qualify. The savings accounts require employer contributions of 9 percent of pay for each worker, rising to 12…