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Mid-size businesses in Australia tend to be overlooked – they aren’t so big that they generate their own gravitational pull, and aren’t so small that a blip in the economy could result in closed doors.

In a recent article published by Grant Thornton US, it was cited that an estimated 43% of the US workforce (being 60 million people) will be contingent workers by 2020 and Australia shows no sign of diverging from this trend.

Ben Matthews recently met with the Managing Partner of a mid-tier legal firm to discuss the struggles he was facing in trying to build a successful partnership, including attracting and retaining great people, optimising working capital, maximising tax efficiencies, retiring debt and funding investment.

In February 2018, new Privacy Laws will come into place introducing mandatory data breach notifications to inform when a data breach has occurred.

Navigating the complexities of growth and maintaining previous success is a challenge for all mid-size businesses.

The seven-year Technology Roadmap for Aged Care recently released by the Aged Care Industry Technology Council (ACIITC) talks about a technology enabled future for consumers, workforce and providers.

It is clear from our 2017 survey of Australian Family Businesses that a significant number of family businesses see increased gender diversity in leadership as important.

Too often the earlier adopters of technology that incorporate new sustainable materials and/or construction practices in their projects, have found it difficult to access funding due to the perceived higher risk of not applying a ‘mainstream’ approach.

There has been much media recently surrounding vacancy rates and the demise of local retailers, with rents of large shopping centres pushing smaller retailers out, and the larger centres and online retailers driving consumers away from the traditional high street retail strips.

Australia’s rapidly ageing population has ensured that in recent times the challenges of retirement have never been far from the headlines.

Technology is having a major impact on the real estate and construction industry in various ways.

How sellers create an impact and entice potential buyers in the way they initially go to market is a critical component in the process of moving real estate assets.