This presentation looks at wages and inflation. There are many things that impact wage growth that no longer relate to demand for worker: 1. Companies are learned to deal with less as such tend to hire back people after they have downsized. 2. Companies have moved parts of the organisation as part of servicing their customer 3. Automation has replaced mundane jobs. 4. Government continues to hike taxation which impacts the cost of business 5. Labour is becoming less of the product cost .