WFH, hybrid or in-office? The winner is...
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About the episode
In August 2024, Simon Draper, secretary of the New South Wales Premier’s Department in Australia, issued a surprise directive to the state’s 430,000 public servants: hybrid work arrangements for the government sector’s employees were largely coming to an end.
The new mandate was issued for “all staff to work principally at an approved workplace, office or related-work site”, and attendance was to be spread across “all days of the working week”.
Ways of working were upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, with office workers across the globe forced to work remotely due to public safety requirements. As the health risks subsided, a hybrid mode of work emerged as the new normal for office workers, enabled by widespread adoption of videoconferencing and file-sharing technology.
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