University of Queensland economics professor, John Quiggin, believes the shift of around half the population to working from home (WFH) might be the biggest productivity increase of the century:
…the unplanned experiment we have been forced to undertake suggests we might have stumbled upon a massive opportunity for a microeconomic reform, yielding benefits far greater than those of the hard-fought changes of the late 20th century.
The average worker spends an hour on commuting every work day…
