said to retain its “key resources” and attract the best talent, its employment costs had leapt 10 per cent per full-time employee.
“We haven’t seen the margin compression come through as yet in the technology sector, but we think it’s a risk going into the August reporting season and the following February 2023 reporting period,” he said.“Our analysis on the tech space shows that average wage costs over the last six months were about 15 per cent higher than 12 months earlier, yet we didn’t see material changes in margins.
But, the companies he thought had the highest labour market risk were Altium, Appen, Nearmap, Pushpay, Megaport, Xero and Hansen.
YolandaRedrup Nope, Australia is going to be flooded with cheap IT labour from India. Check the fine print of the interim Australia-India Free Trade Agreement.