Working from home
Zoom made it easy for us to work from home. Now it’s making its staff return to the office
During the early months of the pandemic, a certain company went suddenly from relative obscurity to the type of popularity that made it a noun, verb and catchphrase.
- by Emma Goldberg
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Commercial real estate
Could working from home cause the next financial crisis?
The lingering pandemic hangover of working from home has started to put serious pressure on commercial real estate values.
- by William Bennett
Big offices shrinking as companies downsize real estate footprint
A slew of heavyweight companies have joined the banking sector in handing back unwanted office space as they grapple with staff demanding to work from home.Â
- by Carolyn Cummins
Shock Games decision the inevitable result of all this secrecy
Readers discuss the budget pressures behind the Victorian government’s decision to axe the Commonwealth Games.
Opinion
For subscribers
Dear bosses, if you don’t trust your staff to WFH then the problem is you
A knee-jerk reaction to significantly reduce or end access to remote work, particularly hybrid work, would be a mistake.
- by Kirstin Ferguson
NAB strikes work-from-home deal as CBA remains in staff stand-off
NAB staff wages will rise by 17.5 per cent over four years under a deal that includes conditions such as cultural leave for Indigenous employees.
- by Angus Thompson
CBA faces Fair Work fight after ordering staff to return to office
The Finance Sector Union has lodged a dispute with the industrial umpire, asking it to intervene in the stalemate between the big-four bank and its staff.
- by Angus Thompson
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Flexible working
‘Disrespectful and out of step’: Council staff revolt over end of flexible working
Randwick Council has ordered staff to return to the office five days a week, as employers warn workers who do not show up to work risk losing their jobs.
- by Andrew Taylor
More than a babysitter, less than a nanny: The rise of mother’s helpers
More professionals with young children are forgoing conventional childcare centres, instead paying for care in their own home while they work in another room.
- by Mary Ward
Makeup and a pub meal: What a portfolio director on $270,000 spends in a week
On Money Diaries, a portfolio director who makes $270,000 a year and spends some of her money this week on dry shampoo and hair dye.
- by Refinery29 Australia
The smokers in the office are questioning me working from home
It sounds like your office has too much suspicion floating about. It’s time for your manager to lay down the rules.
- by Kirstin Ferguson