You can actually finish work at five, rather than finishing at five spending 45 minutes trying to get home."
When you have a jolt, you never return to the way the world was," said John Buchanan, head of the University of Sydney's Health and Work Research Network.
That same week, the public sector union struck a deal the which lets Australia's 120,000 federal employees request work-from-home an unlimited number of days.
By comparison, Canada's federal workers ended a two-week strike in May with a wages agreement that came without the WFH protections they wanted.
Among employees with WFH experience, 19% wanted to return to the office full-time, the survey found.
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