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It's enough to make you want to wash your mind out
What a mess.
Well the Banking Royal Commission (aka Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry) closed in early 2019 and 76 recommendations were made spanning the Banking, Superannuation and Insurance industry and the government’s regulators a plenty.
So what is the final outcome of the Banking Royal Commission?
We’ve tried to distill the main themes down to 4 simple points below.
All the depressing and reprehensible details you can read yourself, here .
The changing face of work and how it will affect us all
Over the last decades, the world of work has changed dramatically. While the traditional career model of a job for life is fading, self-employment and ‘gig’ working is becoming more commonplace.
The hard reality is while the emerging gig economy promises flexibility, our banking and superannuation systems have not kept up with the changes and now only adds to the new stressors our community of casual workers is facing.
Have you ever thought about running a small business on the side while working your full-time job?
Perhaps you're already part of the new gig-economy and providing work-on-demand services back to your past employer.
For many people, working a side hustle is becoming more and more important in our growing world of temporary contracts and flexible working hours.
While providing flexibility (and promising better work-life harmony), growing a side business also requires a new business owner to learn new skills and new habits, before success arrives.
Here are some common financial mistakes time-poor new business owners can avoid.
If you're feeling like your life and business have been Kidnapped by the COVID-19 Virus, we can relate.
It's a difficult time affecting us all, and all in very different ways. The opened-ended nature of this worldwide health crisis fuels a sense of uncertainty. And this won't be the last crisis our world sees.
This changing environment can kidnap our thinking with the seemingly urgent and distract us from the still important.
And our hearts go out to the people who are not in very fortunate situations.
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