Future Here Now: Home as workplace

This isn’t exactly new information, but this study (1) comes from Australia, so most of my readers are less likely to have seen it, and (2) looks like a piece of research done wit ha good deal of rigor about a topic many of us have had hunches about, but little solid information.

As the author writes:

The proportion of Australians in paid work climbed above 64% in May last year, and has stayed there since. At the same time, unemployment has hovered around a half-century low of 4%.

In April last year, female unemployment fell to what is almost certainly an all-time low of 3.3%.

It’s working from home – actually, working from anywhere – that has been the game-changer, as the most enduring change to the way we work to have come out of the pandemic.

The remainder of the article focuses on a very clear summary of the conclusions of her analysis, which details…