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About that spare room: employers requisitioned our homes and our time

  • Written by Julie P. Smith, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Working from home during COVID-19 appeared to cost us little.

Yet employers effectively requisitioned part of those homes.

While necessary, it was far from costless to us, and our generosity shouldn’t be taken for granted.

Bureau of Statistics figures show that during April and May about half the workforce worked from home.

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