Working from home
Opinion
Work/life balance
Is returning to the office actually good for productivity?
Many companies are weighing up the pros and cons of asking employees to come back to the office full-time.
- by Téa Angelos
Latest
Opinion
Opinion
WFH is being replaced by a less welcome acronym. Perth, we must fight back
The benefits of working from home have been well documented, but now well enough. Here’s what I think the best part is, and we must protect it at all costs.
- by Brendan Foster
Can a brutalist redesign counter the scourge of empty offices?
Landlords across the country have seen the value of their office towers plummet by around 23 per cent, on average, over the last two years.
- by Simon Johanson
Australian CEOs keen to pull the plug on working from home
White-collar workers will be back in the office five days a week by 2027, more than 80 per cent of chief executives say in a KPMG survey.
- by Colin Kruger
Exclusive
Australian economy
The $85b Australians have saved by ditching the commute
Craig and Sylvia saved $350 a week when they stopped commuting to work and spent the money going to Italy instead. They are not alone.
- by Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
‘Unreasonable’: ANZ staffer loses bid to work from home permanently
Employee’s plea to permanently work from home because she feared contracting coronavirus has been rejected by the Fair Work Commission.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Opinion
Public service
The crazy WFH experiment is over. Water coolers are the biggest winners
The nation’s biggest workforce has been ordered back to the office, but I’m not sure I agree with Chris Minns’ mandate.
- by Alexandra Smith
‘Will not be popular’: Unions slam premier over work from home call
The state’s top union leader says public servants have “had the rug pulled from under them” by a push to get them back in the office.
- by Megan Gorrey
Opinion
Opinion
Fore! Why golf-loving, office-obsessed employers need to look out
Employers determination to cling to archaic ways of working has many similarities to the similarly expired views one might see on the green.
- by Jim Bright
Analysis
Analysis
How work from home culture could be fuelling depression
The uptick in sales of ‘mouse jigglers’ by opportunistic WFH-ers could be masking a broader underlying issue.
- by Lucy Burton
Perspective
Workplace
Getting bothered by co-workers is another reason for more WFH
Being interrupted at work to perform pointless or unrelated tasks causes stress and can hurt productivity, Queensland research has found.
- by Felicity Caldwell
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