Would you take a pay cut to work from home?
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett is proposing public servants who work remotely should be paid less than those that have no choice but to commute — such as nurses and teachers.
He explained his idea to Sammy J on ABC Radio Melbourne Breakfast.
Remote workers are already cheaper for their employers. A workforce of several hundred employees where 90% of them are remote can happily exist using a fraction of the commercial office space that a fully onsite workforce would need.
If remote work is such a win-win for most organisations as well as employees, why is there such a movement to penalise and discourage the concept?
Because there are bigger sharks with real estate interests…with the twin remora of middle management requiring justification and Worker Control riding upon its sides.