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HR's challenges around remote and flexible working will continue to develop in 2021, while compliance is an area that "will come back with a vengeance", an employment lawyer says.

Employers shouldn't underestimate the attention they must give to remote employees' career development, an engagement expert says.

The JobMaker hiring credit will create "bad jobs", a Senate committee has been warned. Meanwhile a tech employer expects its new, global 'virtual first' work policy to open up much broader talent pools.

Employees with some say over when, where, and how long they work for are much more likely to be high-performing than those with less flexibility, new research shows.

Employers now grappling with how to entice employees back to workplaces must first answer one critical question, an engagement specialist says.

Office-based employers will struggle to encourage their remote workers back unless they get rid of time-wasting meetings, according to an organisational development specialist.

The Fair Work Commission is proposing to insert work-from-home and other flexible arrangements into modern awards. Also in this article: which industries have responded most smoothly to COVID; and the next step for remote working teams.

Having accepted that many employees do their best 'focused' work at home, leading organisations are now recasting their workspaces as hubs for collaboration and socialisation, a specialist says.

With employees across the country working from home many leaders are calling this "the new normal", however a specialist says the future of the workplace requires a balance between old and new practices.

HR professionals have a limited opportunity to embed the gains employers have achieved from their new work practices, research suggests.