Colliers Blog

This year disruptions have resurfaced the need for supply chain managers to re-think their supply chains and strategy roadmaps.

Historically, Australia has enjoyed one of the strongest rates of population growth in the world and it has been this growth that has underpinned the country’s economic expansion over the past two decades. However, with the international border likely to be closed until a vaccine for COVID-19 is found, net overseas migration is forecast to contract over the next two years and this will have considerable flow on effects to the Australian industrial and logistics sector.

As the pandemic has unfolded, so much has been written that the office is now superfluous to needs. We can all take our laptops and move to our dining table and not see a drop in productivity. And this was the case in the early part of the pandemic, because we had no other choice. Many were concerned about job security and therefore worked twice as hard and most likely longer hours to make up for the crisis.