Working From Home Under Spotlight as Flexibility Fades

Published on February 23, 2024

Employee rights to work from home will come under the microscope as a shift into a post-pandemic world chips away at flexible job arrangements. At the request of Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke, the Fair Work Commission in September began a review of the modern award, which sets out terms and conditions of employment for about two million Australians. As part of a broader review of ways workplaces can help employees balance work and care requirements, it will examine whether the award should include a right for Australians to work from home. After the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic forced Australians indoors, as many as 40 percent reported they still regularly worked from home in 2022....

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