The Remaking Business Series

As the pandemic puts business under pressure, here are some tips and tools to help you survive the economic shutdown.

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2:00PMAugust 07, 2020.

Updated 11:37AMAugust 24, 2020

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Sign up for our Facebook live events, where Associate Editor Jackson Hewett will interview businesses who have navigated the coronavirus pandemic through pivots in strategy, changes to operations and shifts to digital technologies.

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AUGUST 26, 7:30pm: How Mind Body Life built an online yoga presence, plus, how Who Gives a Crap built a subscription business

Chelsea Cameron is a yoga instructor at Body Mind Life Yoga studio in Bondi. She is working from home over the pandemic doing online classes for the studios members. Picture: Dylan Robinson

With five yoga and pilates studios in Sydney and one in Byron Bay, Body Mind Life went from capacity to contraction when social distancing was enforced. Hear from founder Phil Goodwin on how they switched to digital channels to keep the business afloat.

Also hear from Simon Griffiths, Co-Founder and CEO of Who Gives a Crap on how they built an online business from scratch and what the great toilet paper pandemic meant to the way they ran their business.

Sign up to the event and to be notified here.

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AUGUST 19, 7:30pm: How Shippit got lean to manage during COVID. Plus how to manage JobKeeper with ACCI

Maximising business efficiency has been essential during COVID. Hear how Shippit, a delivery platform, navigated the downturn to emerge stronger. Also hear from ACCI on how to manage staff under Job Keeper.

Posted by The Australian on Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Shipping logistics company Shippit had to slim down and re-examine their costs when COVID hit. Medium term plans went out the window as the company focused on process automation and empowering staff members to come up with operational improvement.

Now the company is back hiring again but in a much stronger position thanks to their reorganisation. Chief executive Rob Hango-Zada will take your questions on how they did it.

You’ll also have a chance to ask about JobKeeper and other assistance available to business from Workplace Relations deputy director at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tamsin Lawrence.

Tamsin wrote the JobKeeper guide for business, a much-downloaded playbook for employers.

Sign up to the event and to be notified here.

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AUGUST 12: How Hatch was forced into a radical rethink

Chaz Heitner, left, and Adam Jacobs, co-founders of Hatch. Picture: Peter DaSilva

Chaz Heitner and Adam Jacobs faced a complete shutdown of their business placing interns with large employers and rapidly switched to finding jobs for 15,000 stood down workers via their Hatch Exchange. Hear how they did it.

Chaz and Adam have a background in tech start-ups, having co-founded The Iconic (Adam) and Zip Money (Chaz).

Co-founder of The Iconic Adam Jacobs and co-founder of Zip Money Chaz Heitner join us live to discuss how they helped...

Posted by The Australian on Wednesday, August 12, 2020