Browsing: Flexible & off-site work (458 items)

Offshoring is enabling many organisations to grow more quickly, but it's not yet broadly adopted due to some misconceptions, a talent advisor says.

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.

Technical issues that prevented an employee from working from home for a few days were "hardly of sufficient gravity" to force him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has found.

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 employee seeking to move her Saturday volunteering work to weekdays has been cleared to proceed with a dispute over the refusal of her flexible work request.

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An employee has lost his appeal against a finding that drinking alcohol during an online meeting was work-related and warranted disciplinary action.

Changes are needed to the "basic architecture" of the National Employment Standards and working time provisions in modern awards to better support working carers, a literature review 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.