The Fair Work Commission is considering basic rights to work from home. Here’s what the evidence says about the impacts of working from home on physical health and mental wellbeing.
As someone who has recently switched from computer work to “touching grass” work I find the whole discourse a bit one sided (I thought the same before as well but now I am experiencing it). Classist or elitist may be going a bit too far, but not everyone has the privilege of working from home.
This is not to say I am against the concept. I like working from home and I don’t think offices are necessary, at least in the way we’ve come to know them over the last few generations.
Of course, there are jobs in the physical world where you actually have to be present to do the work. I do think that normalizing work from home help everyone though because that reduces traffic on the roads.
As someone who has recently switched from computer work to “touching grass” work I find the whole discourse a bit one sided (I thought the same before as well but now I am experiencing it). Classist or elitist may be going a bit too far, but not everyone has the privilege of working from home.
This is not to say I am against the concept. I like working from home and I don’t think offices are necessary, at least in the way we’ve come to know them over the last few generations.
Of course, there are jobs in the physical world where you actually have to be present to do the work. I do think that normalizing work from home help everyone though because that reduces traffic on the roads.