Ten years ago, if you said to your fellow workers “I’m not coming in today” they would assume that you had lined up a round of golf or you planned to spend some extra time in bed. That’s not the case in today’s connected work. More of us are working from home to get through some work or because we want to swap the time spent commuting with time spent with the kids.
Improvements in home and mobile broadband have definitely had an influence on this trend but, in this edition of BTalk, Rebekah O’Flaherty, an executive director at Telstra, says employer attitudes have also played a part.
Telstra commissioned research of 2,034 working Australians and found that a quarter are spending five hours or more a week working outside the workplace. Fifteen percent are spending 10 or more hours a week, which is the equivalent of 13 full working weeks a year.
There’s still a way to go though — 40 percent of employers said they did not allow staff to work outside the office and 1 in 5 of those said it was because they didn’t trust their employees to work as hard. The Jurassic boss is still out there!
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Facts on the iiNet AFACT case
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) has delivered hundreds of IP addresses to iiNet of account users it believes have illegally downloaded movies.
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US jobs market too hot for the Fed?
US payrolls numbers were way higher than expected, with wages also increasing. On today’s podcast NAB’s Ray Attrill is asked if this means we can expect about 75 basis point hike from the Fed at their next meeting.
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Out with TUSMA, now, in with a new USO
The government is closing down the Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency. So who is responsible for maintaining the USO now – and doesn’t it need updating?
