Warehouse Management Blog

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One of the key ways to predict the direction of Australian growth in a sector is to look at the skills shortage lists for each state. Each year the Australian states research and release a list of skills shortages whereby the state would be willing to sponsor overseas workers in lieu of a lack of local skills. This not only reveals the level of local skills shortages but it also gives an interesting insight into the growth of particular industries including: Hospitality, Education, Tourism, Trades, Health, Construction, ICT, Automotive etc.

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Tags: sustainability, green business, warehouse managers, automated warehouses, thermal garage doors, full vision workshop doors, double glazed garage doors, thermal workshop doors, double glazed workshop doors, temperature control, energy consumption, construction, construction trends, BIM, Green Star Rating, energy efficient

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At the turn of the millennium, big business was suffering from a major image problem. The liberal narrative at the time was simple: large corporations, driven by power-hungry CEOs and greedy shareholders, were malevolent entities, exploiting their workers and chewing up natural resources. Books including Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' and films such as 'The Corporation' became pop-culture touchstones, and their criticism of corporate greed were accepted by Western middle classes on both sides of the political divide.

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Tags: sustainability, warehouse profitability, ethical behaviour, warehouse managers, corporate responsibility

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“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.”
— U.S. President Barack Obama, State of the Union, January 28, 2014

Sustainability, going green, eco-friendly. It seems like everywhere you look in the manufacturing sector, you find references to these trends. Companies of all sizes in all locations are paying more attention than ever before to what kind of impact their business has on the environment.

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Tags: legacy, sustainability, green business