More than three years after COVID forced millions of Australians to decamp to their home offices, we’re still debating the pros and cons of working from home.
, as happened during the pandemic.
“We put out a petition [asking the bank to repeal the mandate], and within about seven days we had close to 2000 people sign that petition,” Angrisano says.that CBA employees felt like they were having the rug pulled out from underneath them, after having previously been told that it would be up to individual teams to work out a schedule that works for them.
The threat of employers suddenly changing their mind on flexible working is why the union is pushing so hard to enshrine employees’ right to work from home in the next round of enterprise-bargaining agreements, Angrisano says. And given remote working can often blur the lines between work and leisure, she says the union is also pushing to have “the right to disconnect” after work hours included in these agreements too.
“You don’t need to be together in the same room to solve a hard problem, to be innovative, to be creative,” Dean tells. “But you might need a three-hour calendar block. And people aren’t making time for that today because they’re stuck in 30-minute meetings [all day] talking about the work to be done instead of doing the work.”
“Innovation and change happen whether or not we want them to, so it’s a matter of really figuring out how to make this work for us, because this change, I do believe, is permanent.”
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