Working from home remains a select privilege: it’s time to fix our national employment standards

Dayaram, Kantha; Fitzgerald, Scott; McKenna, Stephen

Access Status

Open access via publisher

Authors

Dayaram, Kantha

Fitzgerald, Scott

McKenna, Stephen

Date

2020

Type

Non traditional textual works

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Source Title

The Conversation

Additional URLs

https://theconversation.com/working-from-home-remains-a-select-privilege-its-time-to-fix-our-national-employment-standards-139472

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Management

Remarks

First published in The Conversation. A link to The Conversation is available from the Related Links field.

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79524

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

The number of Australians working from home has soared during the COVID-19 crisis. Latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows 46% of the workforce worked from home in late April and early May. By comparison, the bureau’s 2019 data showed slightly less than a third saying they “regularly worked from home” – a number likely inflated by those catching up on work from the office. For many this has been the first real taste not just of full time teleworking, but any flexible working arrangements – something that under minimum employment laws remain a privilege for a select few.