Carers, working mums and people with a disability or health condition are among the biggest winners from the switch to remote and hybrid working, with new research finding disproportionately large increases in workforce participation in these groups after the pandemic.
Analysis by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia found the workforce participation rate in jobs where people could work from home increased by 9 percentage points for women with young children and by 4.4 percentage points for people with a disability or health condition, from 2019 to 2023.
