How will the Flood Affect Jobs in Brisbane and QLD?
Jan 18th 2011, 10:13 am
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How will the Flood Affect Jobs in Brisbane and QLD?
Heard on the news today that the toursism industry is already suffering in Greater QLD and not only Brisbane, because of the floods.
In my experience, any major disaster results in companies stopping employment for a while.
What are short to medium term job prospects in Brisbane and QLD in general do you think?
In my experience, any major disaster results in companies stopping employment for a while.
What are short to medium term job prospects in Brisbane and QLD in general do you think?
Jan 18th 2011, 10:29 am
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Re: How will the Flood Affect Jobs in Brisbane and QLD?
Heard on the news today that the toursism industry is already suffering in Greater QLD and not only Brisbane, because of the floods.
In my experience, any major disaster results in companies stopping employment for a while.
What are short to medium term job prospects in Brisbane and QLD in general do you think?
In my experience, any major disaster results in companies stopping employment for a while.
What are short to medium term job prospects in Brisbane and QLD in general do you think?
Jan 18th 2011, 10:30 am
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Re: How will the Flood Affect Jobs in Brisbane and QLD?
tradie jobs will increase. Everyone just wants to get on with normal life now so hopefully all other jobs will start coming through now everyone's back to work 
Jan 18th 2011, 8:18 pm
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Yep I believe those industries should be ok for a while. Will see what happens with things like I.T. etc...
Jan 19th 2011, 12:54 am
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Once the news stops banging on about what happened and starts forcussing more on building up business confidence and moving forward, things will hopefully start moving
Jan 19th 2011, 3:26 am
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i reckon the natural reaction at first is for companies to hold off for a week or two but reality is industry needs to build itself up in all areas, especially in light of the past couple of years GFC.
Once the news stops banging on about what happened and starts forcussing more on building up business confidence and moving forward, things will hopefully start moving
Once the news stops banging on about what happened and starts forcussing more on building up business confidence and moving forward, things will hopefully start moving
youve been listening to gillard
Jan 19th 2011, 4:34 am
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Jan 19th 2011, 8:24 am
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Jan 21st 2011, 6:43 am
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Re: How will the Flood Affect Jobs in Brisbane and QLD?
The general message was that we're expecting a significant slowdown in Brisbane. At first, customers were putting things off for a week, understandable, now decisions & projects are being put on hold for a couple of months.
It won't be across the board though, we're seeing a spike in interest in disaster recovery and cloud computing projects! A bit knee jerk maybe but not too surprising I guess.
The general message though is non essential stuff is very much on hold.
Jan 21st 2011, 7:08 am
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We got some feedback today about this in our company meeting - from the experience of the Brisbane office.
The general message was that we're expecting a significant slowdown in Brisbane. At first, customers were putting things off for a week, understandable, now decisions & projects are being put on hold for a couple of months.
It won't be across the board though, we're seeing a spike in interest in disaster recovery and cloud computing projects! A bit knee jerk maybe but not too surprising I guess.
The general message though is non essential stuff is very much on hold.
The general message was that we're expecting a significant slowdown in Brisbane. At first, customers were putting things off for a week, understandable, now decisions & projects are being put on hold for a couple of months.
It won't be across the board though, we're seeing a spike in interest in disaster recovery and cloud computing projects! A bit knee jerk maybe but not too surprising I guess.
The general message though is non essential stuff is very much on hold.
That's the feeling I get every time something major like this happens i.e. 911, GFC.
Although in the UK at the time, it was very noticeable from an I.T. contracting point of view. Work just dried up.
But I have a backup (
) plan - not to work in I.T. much longer.
Jan 21st 2011, 7:34 am
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Jan 21st 2011, 7:37 am
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Jan 21st 2011, 9:18 am
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Re: How will the Flood Affect Jobs in Brisbane and QLD?
Hopefully not this one 
She may have a limited menu to deal with too, some branches of run out of - guess what.........
TOWNSVILLE pubs have run out of XXXX beer because of the Brisbane floods, forcing brewer Lion Nathan to send a shipload of the amber fluid north to replenish dwindling supplies.
McDonald's has also been forced to send a planeload of lettuce north to keep burger lovers happy in a move which is believed to have cost the company $50,000.
Restaurants across the city have been forced to take some items off their menus due to stock shortages with price hikes for fresh produce hitting businesses
She may have a limited menu to deal with too, some branches of run out of - guess what.........
TOWNSVILLE pubs have run out of XXXX beer because of the Brisbane floods, forcing brewer Lion Nathan to send a shipload of the amber fluid north to replenish dwindling supplies.
McDonald's has also been forced to send a planeload of lettuce north to keep burger lovers happy in a move which is believed to have cost the company $50,000.
Restaurants across the city have been forced to take some items off their menus due to stock shortages with price hikes for fresh produce hitting businesses