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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 CEO of an HR services provider who was sacked for serious misconduct is claiming her dismissal was unlawful adverse action. And IBM is backpaying its employees more than $12m after failing to ensure its annualised salary arrangements complied with all relevant modern awards.

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.

It's time for the legal system to recognise "quasi-independent" workers who are neither contractor nor employee, an employment lawyer says in this Q&A on casuals and contracting compliance.

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.

Employees' expectations around flexible work have now changed forever, and employers will need to step up or risk losing out on the best talent. This webcast outlines the current state of play; the business case for encouraging flexibility; how COVID has changed flexible work; benefits, lessons and finding the balance; "blended working" as a new concept; and issues to watch out for with WFH employees.

After the outbreak both tested and revealed new levels of capability, Western Health's head of HR says it will never go back to its old ways of working.