PM Anthony Albanese defends working from home

Australia’s work-from-home war: Liberals demand office return, Labor calls plan ‘out of touch’

SYDNEY, March 24 — A plan by Australia’s opposition to force government workers back to the office full time could affect millions, a trade union grouping said on Monday, with the issue featuring in a nationwide election due within months. This month the Liberal party said if elected, it would bar hundreds of thousands of government employees from working from home, except for exceptional circumstances. But the resulting increased traffic conges…

An Australian opposition plan to force public servants to return to the office full-time could affect millions of people, a union warned on Monday, amid...

How working from home has become a federal election battleground

Despite the Coalition insisting its work from home clampdown was only about public servants, Labor and union campaigns are leaving employees wondering if such rights would be pared back for others too.

Albanese pitches to make work from home a cost-of-living issue

The prime minister has opened a new election battlefront, arguing flexible working makes an “enormous difference” to people’s household budgets and wellbeing.

‘Out of touch’: Albo reveals major WFH call

Labor has revealed Aussie workers would be left thousands of dollars worse off if Peter Dutton gets his way.

PM vows to help people work from home to ease cost of living

Commuters save thousands of dollars a year on transport costs when they work from home, Albanese said, as Labor reframed the hot subject ahead of the election campaign.