Australian Workforce Insights

If there's one thing that catches overseas businesses off guard when they hire their first Australian employee, it's superannuation. Not because it's impossibly complicated, but because it works completely differently to retirement schemes in most other countries and the assumptions people bring with them are almost always wrong. The most common one I hear? "The salary we agreed on includes super, right?" It doesn't. And that misunderstanding can cost you more than you'd expe

Let me guess. You've found a great candidate in Australia, maybe a few, and now someone in your team has asked "should we just set up an entity there?" It's a fair question. And honestly, for most of the overseas businesses we work with, the answer is not yet. Here's how to actually think about it. What does setting up a company in Australia actually involve? It's not just registering a name and opening a bank account. To legally employ someone in Australia through your own e