Industry groups are welcoming the lifting of the state’s work-from-home recommendation,saying it will provide a boost to Melbourne’s CBD and regional cities.
More employees are being tracked,recorded and ranked over their workday. What is gained,companies say,is efficiency and accountability. But what is lost?
A train is no longer a vessel for a commute;it’s a container of human condition at its utter worst.
Working from home,when embraced with imagination by management,can extend to a wide variety of roles - perhaps wider than many appreciate if we move beyond Industrial-Age thinking.
The research also suggests employers could use working from home to limit wage growth and that employees would sacrifice a portion of their income to preserve their right to work from home.
Knowingly or unknowingly,the premier has given the green light to a permanent two-class state made up of those whose jobs can be done by Zoom and those whose can’t.
I was craving real-life connections after two years of lockdowns and loneliness. But with COVID-19 and flu still a very real threat,can we afford to step out from behind the Zoom screen?
As more and more workplaces shelve their return-to-office plans,a large-scale return may never be on the horizon.
If some bosses have their way,there will be a new test for their workers’ commitment to their jobs — return to the office,or you fail. But they might find themselves fighting a culture shift beyond their control.
When WeCrashed cameras stopped rolling on Jared Leto as WeWork founder Adam Neumann and Anne Hathaway as his wife Rebekah,the business went on.
Instead of commuting to work,the pandemic inspired one Australian couple to undertake the ultimate sea change.