Everyone’s entitled to try to get the best pay and conditions they can though?
So if working from home made their jobs and commute less drudgery, they’re entitled to try to negotiate with their employer for it continue, either as individuals or through their union
A lot of employers are keen on the idea, having seen reduced office costs and increased productivity. Plus it means they can recruit the best from all over the country/world, so those employers will probably stick with letting them work from home
People whose employers say no, get back in the office, will probably start looking for new jobs where they can work from home. And the best and average employees will get them
Leaving employers who insist on office working with the rubbish!
Then good luck on getting those telephone calls answered or your queries dealt with!
@Maree , On the other had Maree, the employers will be able to use employees
that live abroad, thus making the entire british office workforce redundant ???
I really doubt those figures that butterscotch posted. Leaving a cushy job when you have a family and mortgage to support is not as easy as those figures suggest.
At the moment house prices in Sydney are in decline while prices in regional areas are still rising. CBD office rents are also declining as employers realise that they don’t need the space they once did.
These are all symptoms of the move toward working from home, regional suburbs like mine, once a low socio-economic area are booming because of its distance from Sydney CBD for those occasional trips to the office and the fact that every house has fibre to the home for high(ish) speeds for their office connection.
It is also on the railway line to Sydney but I suspect that passenger numbers are still well down. Before the pandemic the railway carpark was full to overflowing by 7am, these days it is never full - sometimes less than half full all day.
