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An employer's rejection of a remote-working request was "soundly based" on reasonable business grounds, as face-to-face interactions can improve relationships, collaboration, and staff development, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.

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.

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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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.

New laws will obligate employers to allow employees to switch off from work, but what's really required is a genuine and strategic move to rebuild trust, a wellbeing specialist says.

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