Working from home transformed from something employees used to have to fight for, to a concept that was so mainstream it even had its own acronym: WFH.
Just like that, generations of office culture was overturned and when COVID restrictions lifted the hybrid work model of blending office days with WFH days became the new normal for many Australians.
More than 50 per cent of workers surveyed in one recent study responded that they would prefer to quit than take a job that requires them to be in an office full time and it’s now common to see a hybrid work model offered as a way to attract staff
If the COVID-19 pandemic left us with anything positive, it is this conversation about how we structure our work hours, says Tony Veal, an adjunct professor at University of Technology Sydney Business School, who has spent his career researching leisure.
“We suddenly began to ask well, why do we work in the patterns we work?” he says.
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