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Some employees thrive in a structured office environment.

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.

  • Téa Angelos

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Brendan Foster is living the dream.

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.

  • Brendan Foster
A redesign of a brutalist building at 412 St Kilda Road by architects Gray Puksand is going against the vacancy trend.

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.

  • Simon Johanson
More Australian chief executives are predicting that their workforce will be office-based in coming years.

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.

  • Colin Kruger
Craig Costello said he and his wife Sylvia were able to save towards more holidays.

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.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
The Fair Work Commission ruled an ANZ employee’s request to permanently work from home was unreasonable.

‘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.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
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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.

  • Alexandra Smith
NSW public servants have been ordered back to the office.

‘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.

  • Megan Gorrey
Golf is a metaphor for all that is wrong with significant pockets of management practice in Australia.

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.

  • Jim Bright
Working from home – or from bed – could be actively harming workers’ mental health.

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.

  • Lucy Burton

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