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Those who work from home in a second bedroom or home office could potentially claim rental expenses.

Home workers could claim thousands as ATO scrambles to fix loophole

Rent could be claimed as a tax deduction by those who work from home after an ABC presenter challenged a ruling.

  • Nina Hendy

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Fair Work Commission has seriously overreached on absurd Westpac work-from-home ruling

A Fair Work Australia ruling to allow a woman to work from home permanently is a blinkered finding.

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Westpac said businesses that were highly exposed to foot traffic were struggling.

Employers warned after Westpac work-from-home decision

A Fair Work Commission judgment forcing the bank to allow an employee to work from home permanently should act as a reminder to employers, experts say.

  • Elias Visontay
Australian chief executives have backflipped on forecasts that workers will be forced back to the office five days a week.

Aussie bosses say work from home is here to stay

A KPMG global chief executive survey has found a significant change in attitude towards flexibility.

  • Colin Kruger
“Ageless workers” are filing into the nation’s workforce.

Not the retiring type: the men who won’t stop working

Australians can access the age pension from 67. But new research shows a growing number of people want to stay in the workforce much longer.

  • Shane Wright
APS chief executive Zena Burgess says a routine or some predictability in your day can ease decision-making fatigue.

The pandemic-era change that workers love – and some politicians hope to change

Paring back the right to work from home is proving outrageously unpopular among Australians, and more businesses consider the shift is here to stay.

  • Nina Hendy
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Two-thirds of voters want the right to work from home protected

Australians polled for Resolve Political Monitor also like proposals for a four-day work week too.

  • Paul Sakkal
University College, the University of Melbourne.

Manager at prestigious college alleges she was frozen out for working from home

Working relationships allegedly broke down after the manager lodged a working-from-home request. She is now taking her employer to the Federal Court.

  • Noel Towell
Premier Jacinta Allan.

‘Just wrong’: State government seeks to draft public servants into WFH campaign

Public law expert William Partlett likens the Allan government’s latest WFH ploy to the behaviour of a party cartel.

  • Chip Le Grand
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Gorton MP Alice Jordan-Baird.

Albanese backs Victorian push to legislate right to work from home

The prime minister has said Jacinta Allan’s stance matches the views of the federal government.

  • Kieran Rooney and Daniella White

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