Working from home to become new normal

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The AFR’s workplace editor, Sally Patten, believes that office workers should expect to work from home for at least half the week for the rest of 2020, while staff are tipped to work from home one or two days a week over the longer-term:

Large businesses that are developing plans for staff to start moving back to the office are likely to keep occupancy at less than 50 per cent for the foreseeable future, potentially until a vaccine for the highly infectious COVID-19 is found.

Some companies are likely to allow staff who wish to continue to work from home for health or other reasons to do so, assuming they can work productively…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.