The financial services union has compelled Australia’s largest bank to face the workplace umpire after trying to change its work-from-home arrangements. The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) must front up to a Fair Work Commission hearing after the Finance Sector Union (FSU) filed its dispute on July 12. Management had notified their 49,000 employees that they needed…

Australian office workers are still returning to their workplaces three years after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. However, the pace of return is low as many employees prefer to work from home. The Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF), a peak industry group, has released a new report shedding light on the movements of adults in…

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) says it does not know how many federal employees holding membership with one of the country’s largest unions work from home. “With regard to the government’s remote work policy, the information is not systematically tracked in a centralized database,” wrote the Board in a submission to the Senate…

Industrialist Elon Musk has criticized work-from-home arrangements, claiming it was unfair to employees who cannot access such options while at the same time being less productive compared to working from an office. “The laptop class is living in la la land,” Musk said in an interview with CNBC on May 16. The billionaire insisted that…

A Senate committee is considering updates to work policies as many federal employees continue to work from home—and the issue of productivity is a “key question,” said Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain. “We know that it is an issue for many government, public, as well as private, enterprises,” she said during a meeting of the standing committee…

Teacher shortages have worsened in England following the COVID-19 pandemic partly because the profession offers relatively limited opportunities to work from home, a new report has said. According to the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), the number of teacher vacancies posted by schools was 93 percent higher in the academic year up to February…

The White House revealed that President Joe Biden learned about the Chinese spy balloon three days ago. What’s the latest, and will the United States ultimately shoot it down? To weigh in on the Chinese spy balloon, as well as what the Chinese Communist Party is up to on the ground in the United States, we…

Commentary Is the option of working from home for some employees coming to an end? It depends on who you ask. Last week, Forbes ran an article titled, “Is remote work dying a fast death?” while only 10 days earlier, the Los Angeles Times had declared, “Why the trend toward remote work isn’t going to…

Despite the lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions at all levels of government, federal office buildings still have a high rate of empty workstations, according to internal records. Conservative MP and once party leadership candidate Scott Aitchison filed an Inquiry of Ministry in late October to find, across departments and agencies, the number of government-owned buildings,…

While companies struggle to get employees to work the office in lieu of working from home, recent research by Microsoft has found that the top reason that will convince employees to return to the office is the prospect of spending quality time with co-workers. While 82 percent of decision makers at businesses feel bringing employees…