- Australia is a regional outlier in terms of long-term implications of hybrid work policies. Almost half (48%) of Australians expect to spend between one and four days working remotely after 2022, compared with only a third of their South-East Asian counterparts.
- Australian companies were already relatively progressive about remote work. A majority of knowledge workers in Australia (77.7%) think flexible work hours will become standard practice in the near future.
- In the post-pandemic future, Australian SMEs are more likely to implement flexible and hybrid models than larger companies. Only 21.1% of SME respondents from the country expect a full-time return to the office compared with 40.3% of those working in larger firms.
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Ritu Bhandari is a Manager with the Policy & Insights team at Economist Impact. She has over six years of experience working in a wide range of public policy topics including education, technology and sustainability. At Economist Impact, she manages research programs for private-sector, governments and NGO clients in Asia, covering topics like food security, climate & sustainability, and globalisation and trade. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where she specialised in economic policy analysis.
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