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Australia's work-from-home experience is "still very much in progress", but employers and employees alike would benefit from a voluntary code of practice setting out standard conditions and expectations, new research suggests.

The report, Prospects for Working from Home: Assessing the Evidence from the iMOVE Cooperative Research Centre, weighed up the benefits and costs of working from home and suggests that on balance, "workers were more adaptive and proactive under a hybrid model of work than working solely at home or in the workplace".

A consensus across the research – involving academics from the Universities of Sydney, South Australia, and Western Australia – was that there will be a structural increase in WFH arrangements in a post-COVID voluntary system...