Bosses who want to stop it are ignoring key facts [Video]

Is work from home dead? Bosses have made headlines during the past few months, ordering employees back to the office five days a week, and there’s been some grumpy rhetoric to match: “All this work-from-home nonsense is completely changing,” David Harrison, chief of commercial property giant Charter Hall, told a recent Australian Financial Review property summit.

But there’s a problem for those who want to drag our workplaces back in time: hybrid work will deliver economic benefits Australia can’t afford to squander.

Don’t take it from me; listen to the International Monetary Fund – one of the world’s most important financial institutions, and one not known for endorsing “nonsense”.

A recent IMF blog titled Remote Work’s Growth Giftspelt out how work from home can boost productivity and power economic growth. The author, Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom, argued that …