During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, our research company, The E-Lab, conducted a study with Deakin University to find out how the shift from working at the office to working at home had affected Australians’ ability to work effectively. We found that 65 per cent of people were finding it more difficult to separate work and home and 64 per cent of people were thinking about work more in their personal time.

The data shows that understanding how to work from home effectively is critical, particularly given that a large portion of white-collar workers are likely to divide their work hours between home and the office under a hybrid model. A key challenge of working under a hybrid model will be how we separate our work and home lives.