Aussie Finance Blog

Australian personal finance news, tips and advices.

Working from Home with Kids

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Owing to changes around the world, working from home has brought a welcome change to the workplace. In the past, working parents used to worry themselves bald trying to work out how to deliver at work without the home suffering and vice versa. Having to work while having your kids around is every woman’s dream.

Right? But here is the thing. Dreams don’t always work well in real life.

And so there is so much stress that comes with balancing your work life and your home life. For one, there are loads of distractions from handling the kids and house chores. ... (read more)

What to Wear When Working from Home

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So now that you have secured that work from home job (WFH), how do you ensure that you don’t lose it to the teeming number of unemployed folks out there. Simple. Be as productive as you can be wherever you are.

Of course, you also need to cater to your mental health to have the right mindset. But then there are loads of online and offline resources that could help you with your performance at work. Interestingly, an often ignored factor plays an integral role in how much work is done: your work from home attire. ... (read more)

Separating Work and Personal Life When Working from Home

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When you work from home and the same space is used as an office and living quarters, your work life and home life mix seamlessly, and it is near impossible to effect a work-life balance that works for you.

Yet working from home is the new normal in our digital business world. As such, more registered trademarks are leveraging its benefits to drive their objectives, and the regular office environment will soon become part of the past. ... (read more)

Calling in Sick When Working from Home

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Naturally, calling in sick shouldn’t be a big deal. But the nature of the modern workplace has changed. Working remotely is the way businesses have adapted to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now it’s not so easy with remote workers. With them, there is always the risk of disbelief when taking sick days. That is why a remote worker calling in sick from home needs to know what to say, when to say it and how to say it. ... (read more)

How to be productive working from home

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Remote work is one of the trends revolutionising modern business because of its benefits for the individual and business activities. Flexibility, convenience, fewer person-hours spent on commuting, convenience, and reduced operational costs are just some of the benefits of remote work. 

Once upon a time, remote work (WFH) used to be a practice for freelancers who enjoyed the freedom of being lone rangers that traversed the business landscape and lived by their own rules. ... (read more)

5 Cost Effective Tips To Optimise Your Work from Home Performance

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Due to the pandemic, more employees have recently switched to a work-from-home setup. Many companies, however, didn’t have the time to organise their new remote work system or plan how to manage and handle various tasks and projects while functioning in an online-only environment. The work-from-home arrangement is new for both companies and employees. Many are also still adapting to this setup while looking for strategies to maintain and improve productivity.  ... (read more)

Money Transfer Services in Australia: Finding the Cheapest Rates for International Payments

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International money transfers are an increasingly important aspect of the global economy. With the pandemic forcing people to work from home, along with the rise in remote working and freelancing, even small businesses are reliant on international money transfers.

Once borders open up again, it’s easy to see how the growth of digital nomading, remote work, and globalisation in general is meaning that the overseas remittance market is ever-expanding. ... (read more)

What’s all this talk about super stapling?

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Back in the 1980s, when Australia’s compulsory superannuation system was born, it was quite common for people to work for one company across their entire careers. Fast-forward three decades, and that notion is pretty mind-boggling, since today the average Australian worker could have up to a dozen or more job changes – and this is particularly so amongst Millennials. One effect of all those job changes is the potential to accumulate multiple superannuation accounts, especially when an employee simply ticks the box for their new company’s default super fund. And to be fair, how many of us in our 20s really took much notice of super? ... (read more)

3 Ways to Get the Best Personal Loan

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Personal loans are in great demand by the Aussie public – just look at the figures.

This year, August saw $391 million worth of loans for personal investment (which doesn’t include property!) get approved – the highest that figure has been since way back in the middle of 2015.

If you’re one of the thousands of Aussies looking at taking on a personal loan this year, here’s 3 ways you can get the best deal for the buck. ... (read more)

How to Improve Your Student Finances with a Personal Budget

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Uni life taking its toll? If you seem chronically short of cash and struggling to pay for rent or groceries each week, you need a budget. A student’s finances won’t be princely sums to begin with, especially since we can’t work full-time amid our studies; but we can make our student finances stretch a bit further with some clever budgeting and some other financial tips.

Debt isn’t always bad: student loans for investing in yourself ... (read more)