Companies from Goldman Sachs to Havas are hoping the way to their employees’ hearts is through their stomachs as they try to lure staff back to the office.
The Atlassian founder thinks lockdowns could persist well beyond current deadlines,and employers must be wary of mental health risks for their staff.
The five-day office week is well and truly dead as managers deal with a workforce that doesn’t want to go back to the way things were.
Hybrid work may compound discrimination in the workplace,with top companies including tech giant Atlassian raising concerns about the impact on women and minorities.
1980s style drinks carts,Friday nibbles and team building events like paper plane competitions are some of the perks employers are using to entice workers back into the office.
Randomly pairing up colleagues,a return to phone calls and teams determining their own days in the office are some of the strategies companies are employing as they make the switch to hybrid work.
Not everyone is enthusiastic about working from home. Younger workers fear they are missing out on valuable learning experiences when locked out of the office.
A 29-year-old associate at top law firm Baker&McKenzie grew up on a farm 600km west of Sydney. During the pandemic she moved home,and now has no plans to return.
Today on Please Explain,senior economics writer Jessica Irvine joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss how working from home has impacted productivity.
After 18 months of COVID-induced Zoom calls,corporate Australia has no plans to force staff back to the office fulltime.
Leading economists say an increase in the number of workers logging in from home is unlikely to harm the nation’s productivity,while also delivering a big overall boost to happiness.