Melbourne property surveyor Nicholas Coomber uses remote work to complete assignments before COVID-19 sent one-third of the global workforce home.

The surveyors can leave for the field at 7:30 a.m., allowing them to pick up their children from daycare sooner.

Australian unions are setting a precedent by suing the country’s largest bank and wrangling with the federal government to make working from home the norm.

The Australian labor market has experienced significant changes due to the pandemic, with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) employees challenging a directive to work from the office half the time.

National Australia Bank (NAB) ordered 500 senior managers back to work full-time in April, and the public sector union reached a deal that allows all employees, including the 500 managers, to request WFH with limited grounds for refusal.

In the post-lockdown economy, office attendance is down from a fifth in Tokyo to more than half in New York.

EU lawmakers are still negotiating updates to decades-old “telework” protections.