After the pandemic working from home remains the new norm

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Over the past two years, employers and business groups have, by necessity of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, needed to adjust  their work models to incorporate a new hybrid of on-worksite attendance by employees and working-from-home. As part of the process, numerous surveys have been conducted by employers and management consultancies as to what the future may look like. One of these research projects by PriceWaterhouse Coopers found the preferences of the Australian workforce to be distributed thus -

• 16 % a wholly virtual workplace
• 25 % mostly virtual work with some face-to-face
• 35 % a mix of face-to-face and virtual work
• 10 % a traditional face-to-face work environment
• 14 % mostly face-to-face with some remote working 

What is clear from research into the new world of work and employment is that the proverbial genie is out of the bottle with the benefits of working from home now becoming crystal clear for much of the workforce. Simply returning to the office full-time is no longer sufficient for employees and working flexibly is the order of the day.