If more people work from home and shop online, many commercial buildings won’t be needed any longer. What will be needed is affordable housing, and these buildings can be converted to meet this need.
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We might have had a glimpse of new ways of urban living, but history offers a note of caution. Lasting change depends on us applying technology and taking deliberate action to seize this opportunity.
Working from home in the long run could be better for your health, or it could also be worse. It depends on how your employer supports you.
Movement is crucial even when you are sitting down.
We estimate 39% of all jobs in Australia can be done from home, with men more likely to have teleworkable jobs.
Even in the time of COVID-19, strong forces pull us back to the office.
Some companies are moving permanently to remote work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. But are they simply passing on costs to employees while invading their personal space?
Working at home has been far from costless, but many of the costs aren’t counted in the GDP.
The change in our behaviour in response to COVID-19 has created an opportunity to build on this moment and transform our local neighbourhoods into vibrant mixed-use centres of activity.
Our research shows most organisations have adapted well to staff working from home. But there’s a hole in workplace laws we need to address.
WFH? It seems a lot of people have quickly become used to it.
The idea of work-life balance caught on the 1980s. The COVD-19 pandemic shows we need to replace it with a more integrated approach.
As many offices have converted to work-from-home operations during the coronavirus pandemic, the human connection needed for successful work cultures has changed for the better.
The Zoom boom means more work for you.
The higher a person’s salary, the most likely they are to be able to work from home; it’s not an option for most low-income workers. Here’s what governments can do to help encourage more remote work.
With vast swaths of society forced to work from home, people with disabilities can overcome many of the challenges they face in a normal office environment.
Ten tips for lockdown from a specialist psychologist.
Are the best co-workers really the ones with four legs and a tail? Science says it depends.
After the ‘world’s biggest work-from-home experiment’, many people (and their employers) might decide they needn’t commute every day. If even a fraction do that, infrastructure needs will change.
Our working lives provide us with something more important than a pay cheque.
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Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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