Embedding a 'smart' working culture goes beyond implementing hybrid work arrangements and requires leaders to "challenge the assumptions of necessity", a flexible working expert says.
A remote worker was unfairly dismissed for refusing to accept changes to her position that would require her to perform her duties in the office, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer has failed to overturn a decision that found it took a "blanket approach" to considering a manager's request to work entirely from home, with a court concluding it had breached its own flexible work policy.
An employer's "poor and uninformed" response to a pregnant manager's working-from-home request did not amount to a constructive dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer that questioned a "high-achieving" employee's commitment to his role after he worked from home on mandatory in-office days has been ordered to pay him more than $26k in compensation for unfair dismissal.
Congruency between expectations and experience, throughout the entire employee lifecycle, is the most critical factor in whether an EVP will be considered "successful". Meanwhile "some disconnects exist" between what employees now desire in a physical workplace and what employers are providing.
Requiring an employee to be in the office for 40% of his work hours was reasonable, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding the rejection of his flexible work request.
Australian businesses are in "a really risky situation at the moment", with new research showing the leading indicators of employee experience are stagnating or declining.
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