Opinion

Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
Three things businesses must do to ride covid’s third wave
Opinion

Karl Wright: Three things businesses must do to ride covid’s third wave

Datacom CIO Karl Wright says businesses need to accept disruption as the new normal, take a zero-trust approach to security and invest in the right tools and platforms to support hybrid ways of working. 

Karl Wright 22 Nov 2021
Why the RBNZ's bond-buying programme is an albatross
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Jenny Ruth: Why the RBNZ's bond-buying programme is an albatross

History may judge the Reserve Bank's large-scale asset programme to have been a policy mistake.

Jenny Ruth 22 Nov 2021
Workers quitting to play the booming markets
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Brian Gaynor: Workers quitting to play the booming markets

Serious labour shortages are developing in NZ with job vacancies picking up far more rapidly than after the GFC, although Auckland is obviously lagging behind the rest of the country.

Brian Gaynor 20 Nov 2021
Our overreliance on Big Tech is a national security threat
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Peter Griffin: Our overreliance on Big Tech is a national security threat

The Metaverse is coming and with it the prospect of powerful virtual communities based on decentralised cryptocurrencies that could pose a threat to the authority of our own state and the Kiwi dollar.

Peter Griffin 18 Nov 2021