Most look at Microsoft and see a computer company. In reality Microsoft is a creative amorphousing energy mass . You won't last at Microsoft if your job is just a job. No regular hours, buildings open to workers 24 hours a day. No tracking of hours but everyone watching output.
Work is on project results.
No standardised career routes. People move onto a new project taking with them the reputation they earned at their last project. Microsoft perpetuates creativity by eliminating traditional command and control systems associated with employment regimes. I doubt the ability of the IT industry to explode in Australia if it is required to do so under the auspices of IRC imposed business socialism. Rather, the hope must be that IT industry workplace approaches will be taken up by traditional command and control Australian corporations.