This Month
- Analysis
- Government Observed
Hybrid working mishmash for 1.7m government workers across Australia
The NSW government’s push for public servants to work from their offices has left a jumble of work arrangements for the nation’s largest employers.
- Tom Burton
NSW to lease more offices for public servants ordered back
NSW is ready to lease extra office space after declaring it was time to end pandemic work-from-home conditions for its 80,000 public servants.
- Tom Burton
NSW public servants ordered to return to office
Updated guidelines call for more than 400,000 public servants to be in offices “across the whole working week”.
- Campbell Kwan
July
- Exclusive
- Workplace culture
Offices get busier as jobs market tightens
New data suggests the sharp uptick in office attendance at the start of the year has marked the beginning of a longer-lasting shift.
- Euan Black
Why ‘quiet vacationing’ could lead to getting sacked
“Quiet vacationing” is an emerging trend as employees take advantage of work from home rules, but they could be contravening tax and visa rules.
- Euan Black
Working from beach is the new WFH (just don’t tell your boss)
Work from anywhere policies – allowing staff to spend some time abroad on the clock – makes people more likely to stay at a company for longer, a survey found.
- Lauren Shirreff
Remote work fuelling higher housing costs: BIS
Housing inflation is proving particularly tough to tame, as landlords pass on rising mortgage rates to tenants and working from home adds to demand.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Opinion
This is the new normal of office life
Flexible working patterns in a decent place that makes it easy to do the job you’re paid for is a basic recipe for success in a post-pandemic world.
- Updated
- Pilita Clark
Inside Atlassian’s new workplace – just don’t call it an office
The company’s new Melbourne site has been designed as a so-called connection hub. It only has 12 desks, with an emphasis on social spaces instead.
- Euan Black
You’re not alone, workers are avoiding becoming managers
Working from home is far from the only enduring workplace trend of the pandemic. It’s clear that our attitudes to work have changed significantly too.
- Euan Black
Rise of the ‘work from home’ husband as partners return to the office
In the United States, more than 2 per cent of male workers are fully remote but have a spouse who goes to a workplace.
- Madeleine Ross
June
Why WFH husbands don’t do the housework
There must be something about upbringing and environment that makes it so much harder for men to identify the chores that women see as crying out to be done.
- Lauren Shirreff
PM starts China talks; Tabcorp’s risky CEO bet; WFH secures $1.8m sale
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Updated
Working from home option secures $1.8m sale
A Gold Coast home had a commercial side to it that put most buyers in the area off. So the agent went further afield.
- Michael Bleby
- Exclusive
- Workplace
Domestic violence leave has been law for a year. Almost no one uses it
Employers are being urged to do more for victim survivors of domestic violence after a survey revealed new leave entitlements were hardly being used.
- Euan Black and Ronald Mizen
May
‘Coffee badging’ workers’ last stand in war on working from home
Like “showing face” in the House of Lords, “coffee badging” refers to the practice of conspicuously clocking in before sneakily leaving shortly after.
- Lucy Burton
Not a home office: cafe finds coffee and laptops don’t blend well
The same reasons that drove19th-century writers from their garrets have led office workers to colonise café tables.
- Jane Shilling
BHP’s $64b game; Chalmers slams ‘trick’ claim; Meme stock stupidity
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
April
Job seekers refuse to meet employers in person
Virtual job interviews are making it harder to assess applicants and highlighting a decline in people skills since the rise of working from home.
- Euan Black
Employees who refused WFH jobs get cut in redundancy payout
The Fair Work Commission has for the first time reduced payouts for retrenched Bartercard employees because they did not accept job offers requiring them to work entirely from home.
- David Marin-Guzman
