This report delves into the ICT industry employment and training numbers within Australia. More than 554,000 people work in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) occupations.1 The ICT Industry contributes 4.6 percent of Australia’s GDP and 4.9 percent of economic gross value add. It is a complex and comprehensive industry that affects all business activity and...

This is the council’s fourth annual report on the performance of governments under the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development. Under the agreement, the Commonwealth and each State and Territory has committed to increasing the skill levels of all Australians. The 2011 report shows that the skill levels of the Australian workforce are increasing...

IBSA’s Environment Scan (Escan) 2012 has been produced with funding assistance provided by the Australian Government through the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE). The Escan provides Innovation & Business Skills Australia (IBSA) with an opportunity to gather industry intelligence on business directions and emerging workforce development issues and to consider...

A variety of literature has been examined for ideas and examples of what has worked, or what has not worked in the arena of pathways to employment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote areas. What works and what does not in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment pathways cannot be understood mechanistically...

This project explored perceptions, issues and key considerations that relate to productivity and wellbeing of hybrid teleworkers in Australia. Hybrid telework is a way of work in which teleworkers work between one and two days from a location other than the workplace; in most cases this means working from home. Results relating to individual and...