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Why employment is a by-product of business and how we can overcome the obstacles   The great economies have always been built on cause and effect. When businesses are primed to succeed, unemployment reduces. The fact is, a company is either in growth or decline, and to ensure our future employment, growth quite obviously is imperative. With future-first thinking, new employment opportunities are created, even as old positions become redundant. This sounds simple enough but is there enough of a focus on the cause of growth – the essential factors that stimulate profitability and employment?    Ivan Radmore , CEO of the free-to-access online business platform  BuzzApex , believes we often overlook the essential building blocks. The purpose of a business is to make a profit. Any employment offered is a direct result of that profit. If we accept that employment is a by-product of business, then it’s not difficult to relate that back to unemployment. It is, therefore, rea...

  Why it may take a worldwide pandemic to eliminate the need for job titles The COVID-19 pandemic has knocked the world off its ‘business as usual’ axis.  The need to work remotely has enforced digitisation that has accelerated the pace of various new and existing sectors, including online platforms that give employees access to essential data in real-time.   As companies made adjustments to business operations, these tools, such as  BuzzApex  ensured productivity levels and provided businesses with innovative and secure ways to access their data, ongoing projects and even pursue new marketing avenues. They may have also inadvertently raised the question:    Are job titles as essential as job roles? In traditional workplaces, job titles such as Sales Manager or Marketing Assistant, as well as prefixes like junior or senior become less important as companies move beyond the face to face meetings and impressions created by office interactions. With busin...

  How SME’s can seize an opportunity - despite Covid-19 SME’s across South Africa are counting the costs of the pandemic and its devastating impact on business. The fact is, according to a McKinsey study:   ‘How South African SMEs can survive and thrive post COVID-19'   SMEs represent more than 98% of businesses, employ between 50-  60% of the country’s workforce across all sectors, and are responsible for a quarter of job growth in the private sector. In addition, the same study says that ‘b usiness confidence has fallen too’. In a flash survey, conducted in April 2020, just over a third of businesses surveyed expressed that they are pessimistic about the economy and economic outlook and more than 30 percent indicated that they expected revenues to fall by between 5 and 50 percent over the next six to 12 months leading to negative profits in excess of –5 percent.  The consequences of Covid-19 on the economy are undeniably severe. Business owners ...

The world has changed in previously unimaginable ways, which means that companies have had to adapt at a frenetic pace. A need for a new communication dynamic between companies and employees has emerged and many companies who do not swiftly rise to the challenge will experience consequences far sooner than in the past. However, at a time when businesses sink, who says you can’t swim?    Now, more than ever, companies need access to dependable and scalable tools that maintain business continuity no matter where they operate. Online business productivity platforms, such as  BuzzApex,  are shaping this new business narrative in a big way. They have become especially relevant in the time of social distancing, supply chain interruptions, and the measures put in place to mitigate the devastating health impact on the nation’s health and infrastructure. While COVID-19 is accelerating trends that were predicted to arrive a few years from now, it may present an opportunity to ...

    Across South Africa, SMEs are undoubtedly the driving force of the economy. They represent more than 98% of businesses, employ between 50% to 60% of the nation’s workforce and are responsible for a quarter of job growth in the private sector 1 . However, many of these organisations continually face the challenge of limited resources, expertise, and technology to operate and grow efficiently. New online platforms, such as  BuzzApex,  are transforming the way businesses operate in every industry.    Legacy systems, such as spreadsheets, that have previously been offline are now proving to be unreliable, expensive, time-consuming, and far from user-friendly.  The future lies in online platforms that transform productivity and output, positively impacting the day-to-day running of the business, its growth and ultimately the economy.  BuzzApex , a free-to-access online platform designed for real-time control of all organisational activities, is fir...