Strangely that hasn’t made much news here?? Due to geography a lot of NZ commerce is Internationally linked so can’t work off a 4 day week anyway.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 May 2020, 6:48amFirst guess is mentoring at certain people's homes for a couple weeks before they graduate to working at their own home. But, yeah, that would be a challenge.101Walterton wrote: ↑21 May 2020, 6:33amThe only downside I can see is what happens when you have new staff?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 May 2020, 6:23amMy nephew has a small high tech design company and he's found that all of his employees have been quite happy working from home, so he and his partner are seriously questioning renewing the lease on their fairly expensive workplace when it comes up. They could take some of the savings and apply it to salaries.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 May 2020, 9:28pmAfter the Christchurch earthquake the CBD was completely flattened and all business obviously had to relocate to suburbs/ home etc..
10 years on and they can’t finance / re build the CBD as companies realise there are better ways to work.
I suspect the same will happen with work from home.
Why pay expensive rent when there are better / cheaper ways to work with more productivity time and less staff absenteeism ( proven stat).
Meanwhile, speaking of NZ and longer-term effects on labour: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... es-popular
Most of the talk is about introducing 1 long weekend to promote and kick start domestic tourism (economy) but business has already said they aren’t paying after the Covid losses so unless government pay??