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Thomas Derum

Outsourcing

The Fee You Can See Is the Only One You Can Argue With

From 1 October the Reserve Bank removes card surcharging, so the $1.8 billion of fees Australian merchants used to pass on has to land somewhere else. Staffing fees behave the same way, and most of them are already invisible.
Outsourcing

Wages Up, Output Per Hour Flat: What The June Quarter Actually Cost You

Private sector wages rose 1.4 percent in the June quarter while output per hour did not move. Here is what a head actually costs, itemised, with the published fees against it.
Outsourcing

Why Wouldn't I Just Find And Hire People Myself

A competitor's own survey says one in three Australian businesses are losing customers because they cannot fill roles. The fee you save by hiring yourself is the smallest number in the calculation.
Outsourcing

Two Of Your Thirty Staff Already Work Somewhere Else

Multiple job holding just hit its highest rate since 1994. The labour market is not making more people, it is cutting the same ones into smaller pieces.
Outsourcing

Your Card Costs Fall On 1 October. The Bigger Number Did Not Move.

The Reserve Bank cuts the consumer credit interchange cap from 0.8 to 0.3 per cent on 1 October. On $1 million of credit card turnover that is $5,000 a year. One restructured role, on published market rates, is worth about seven times more.
Global Hiring

What Does An AI Recruiter Actually Do? The Answer In Hours, Not Adjectives

What does an AI recruiter actually do? Productivity fell 0.2 per cent over the year while wages rose. Here are the hiring hours the software removes.
Global Hiring

Australia's 2026 Budget Won't Solve Your Skills Shortage

The 2026-27 Budget keeps migration at 185,000 places but moves priority onshore, which shrinks the pool Australian employers can actually hire from. Why that is good politics and poor workforce policy, and what businesses are doing instead.
Global Hiring

The Double Disruption: How AI Is Simultaneously Your Biggest Competitive Advantage - and Your Replacement

83% of IT staffing firms report AI progress. Only 16% call it substantial. Here are the two disruptions that gap creates, the Mobley v. Workday liability nobody planned for, and what genuine AI leadership looks like.