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$22b budget blowout; WFH is an ASX mess; The $3b Aussie wealth manager

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Lendlease chief executive Tony Lombardo says senior leaders should be back in the office.

WFH is a mess for ASX giants. It will only get messier

While Australia’s biggest companies have accepted hybrid work is here to stay, they remain uneasy about its impact. The debate is far from settled.

  • James Thomson
Working mums were among the biggest winners of the working-from-home revolution, CEDA analysis shows.

Study reveals the biggest winners from working from home

New research finds flexible working has boosted workforce participation for carers, working mums and people with a disability or health condition.

  • Euan Black
ACTU secretary Sally McManus (front left) said the IR laws had increased workers’ wages by $380 a year, or 0.5 per cent.

ACTU pushes for Labor to expand WFH rights

The ACTU is pushing to expand workers’ rights to challenge work-from-home refusals and raise the threshold for bosses to reject them.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Medibank’s Kylie Bishop expects a four-day workweek will improve wellbeing and encourage staff to cut down on unproductive tasks.

‘Brain drain’: When return-to-office mandates backfire

Employees quit their jobs in higher numbers when told to return to the office, according to a new analysis of S&P 500 firms.

  • Euan Black
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November

Return to office order is ‘dismissing our humanity’, say Amazon staff

Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, has said all the company’s white-collar staff would be expected at their desks from January 2.

  • Matthew Field

October

The downturn in office property may be almost done.

Office funds drop 27pc, but the downturn may soon be over

Rising interest rates, weak demand and the switch to hybrid work have wrought havoc for the office sector over the past two years.

  • Nick Lenaghan
CBA is directing staff back to the office.

CBA threatens to cut bonuses in return-to-office push

It is the latest example of the stand-off between employers and employees over remote work concessions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Lucas Baird

Executives and research disagree about hybrid work. Why?

Almost five years since the start of the pandemic, many CEOs are ready to move on from a work experiment they never wanted to start.

  • Lauren Hirsch
Distractions in the office affected productivity, researchers found.

Office distractions hinder workplace productivity: study

Fewer distractions and better supervision have emerged as critical ingredients to driving better productivity returns from hybrid working.

  • Tom Burton and Euan Black
Back to work. The Lloyd’s of London skyscraper in London’s financial district.

Lloyd’s of London tracking Monday office attendance

It comes amid growing concerns across businesses that workers are either flouting demands to come into the office more regularly or effectively extending the weekend.

  • Adam Mawardi and Luke Barr

September

Many TPG email accounts were transferred to another service provider to save costs.

‘I saw the home working sham exposed on a Mediterranean holiday’

There has been a drift back to the office, but some studies have found that workers who are in the office full-time are no more productive than hybrid workers.

  • Roger Bootle
The benefits of working in the office might be overstated.

WFH is hugely more productive than CEOs admit

Demands for workers to return to the office full-time have a rose-tinted view of in-person work.

  • Emma Jacobs
Tabcorp chief executive Gillon McLachlan has ordered staff back to the office five days a week.

Tabcorp CEO Gill McLachlan orders staff back to office five days a week

Tabcorp and Amazon have ordered their staff back to the office five days a week in the latest salvo in the work-from-home battle.

  • Euan Black and Patrick Durkin
Associate Professor Nicole Hartley, Director MBA and Executive Education, University of Queensland

The best time to upskill? All the time

Wanting to expand your skill set through executive education is one thing, but when is the best time to do it? At what point in your career is it most beneficial and what sort of timeframe should you set aside for it?

  • Sian Powell
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AMP Capital has beaten local and offshore private investors and international hoteliers to buy back the building it developed in 1931 to house its Melbourne operations. 425 Collins Street building was acquired for $39 million from the Indonesian-based Halim family. 425 Collins Street Melbourne.jpeg

Remote work hits office values harder than the GFC

Office tower values have dropped 22 per cent from their peak, and the slump isn’t over yet according to some analysts.

  • Campbell Kwan
Mineral Resources founder and managing director Chris Ellison.

Chris Ellison’s private chopper goes dark

Chris Ellison’s getting a lot of unwanted attention at the “shittiest time”.

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  • Mark Di Stefano

August

Millions of clerical workers could soon be given the legal right to request working-from-home arrangements.

Millions of workers could soon get more WFH rights

Millions of clerical workers could soon have the right to request working-from-home arrangements under changes being considered by the Fair Work Commission.

  • Euan Black
Corporate finance analyst Joshua Montagu, 24, says going into the office five days a week means more time with senior colleagues.

Why Gen Z are leading the way on five days a week back in the office

Younger workers are looking for in-person experience handed down from their older colleagues – and sometimes a place to concentrate that’s not in a share house.

  • Euan Black

Starmer backs working from home against ‘culture of presenteeism’

The UK government wants to introduce a new “right to switch off” as part of a workers’ rights reform package.

  • Nick Gutteridge

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