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Work from home ends bludgers threaten to quit
May 21^st, 2025 at 11:16pm

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NAB bank staff threaten to quit after work from home perks pulled back: 'They will walk'

Workers are furious over the Big Four bank's decision to increase the number of in-office days staff have to adhere to.

NAB has asked staff to increase the number of days they spend in the office each week. The bank has joined a growing number of businesses moving away from the work-from-home model (WFH), however, the move has left many upset.

Staff were told about the directive via an internal memo, which will impact junior workers and team leaders. Finance Sector Union national president Wendy Streets has slammed the decision as "completely unnecessary".

“People are not prepared to turn back the hands of time. They’ve found a new, fairer, more efficient way of working, they’re not going to be dragged back to the past," she said.

According to the Australian Financial Review, when the announcement was made last week on the bank's internal messaging system, it was hit with hundreds of shocked, angry and broken heart emojis, indicating staff were not happy about the decision.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/nab-bank-staff-threaten-to-quit-after-work-fro...

Labor pood all over Dutton when he made this a policy platform and now that Labor has been reelected their protests for this seem to be silent.

Just another scaremongering lie from Labor and Albo and guys, you fell for it, and voted in droves for Labor.

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Reply #1 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 7:47am

Let's look at it simply - if they are not happy to work to the rules - they are not the kind of people you want working for you. Their departure will fall in line with the banks' push to get rid of staff... let them walk into a jobless market.

People are not paid to work from home - they are paid to be on deck and available at a moment's notice to deal with anything that comes up - no matter how minor.

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Reply #2 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 7:55am

How is it 'fairer' for some to work from home and others not? How is it 'fairer' for some to save on childcare costs and reno the house, plan their investment portfolio over a cup of tea, etc, while 'working'? How is it 'fairer' for some to take a holiday taking their laptop along to do their 'work' while the peasants go to work in the factories etc?

Preferential treatment is NOT the Australian way - and it's time for it to stop in all arenas.

Of course the outraged spokesperson would be another sheila - they imagine the world should just jump to their wants and everything they want is a 'right' - been that way since some idiot came up with 'affirmative action' that has never gone away in over forty years now and has established itself like the cancer I predicted it would in our society, as a 'right' and not a special short-term privilege to create a rough 'equality'. Now 'equality' to those morons means total dominance! DUH:-

That soon will pass - one round of AlboGroup rotting the store will change all that.... once people see how useless they are in reality...

And Out Of The West a new party must rise - or we are all doomed to servitude under The New Feudalism.

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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 35948 Gender:	Re: Work from home ends bludgers threaten to quit Reply #3 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:15am The only thing i can put the outrage over working from home is is petty jealousy. But that is pretty typical of the Boomers on here. Working from home makes all the sense in the world. One of the best things that came out of lockdown.
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Reply #4 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:21am

Baronvonrort wrote on May 21^st, 2025 at 11:16pm:

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NAB bank staff threaten to quit after work from home perks pulled back: 'They will walk'

Workers are furious over the Big Four bank's decision to increase the number of in-office days staff have to adhere to.

NAB has asked staff to increase the number of days they spend in the office each week. The bank has joined a growing number of businesses moving away from the work-from-home model (WFH), however, the move has left many upset.

Staff were told about the directive via an internal memo, which will impact junior workers and team leaders. Finance Sector Union national president Wendy Streets has slammed the decision as "completely unnecessary".

“People are not prepared to turn back the hands of time. They’ve found a new, fairer, more efficient way of working, they’re not going to be dragged back to the past," she said.

According to the Australian Financial Review, when the announcement was made last week on the bank's internal messaging system, it was hit with hundreds of shocked, angry and broken heart emojis, indicating staff were not happy about the decision.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/nab-bank-staff-threaten-to-quit-after-work-fro...

Labor pood all over Dutton when he made this a policy platform and now that Labor has been reelected their protests for this seem to be silent.

Just another scaremongering lie from Labor and Albo and guys, you fell for it, and voted in droves for Labor.

NAB are a Private Company so what does this have to do with Labor....Do you advocate for Government interfering with Corporations decisions???

Huh

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John Smith Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 76536 Gender:	Re: Work from home ends bludgers threaten to quit Reply #5 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:21am As long as the work gets done, who gives a crap where they work from. The problem is the higher ups have no one to lord over when they're the only ones in the office
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Reply #6 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:25am

mothra wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:15am:

The only thing i can put the outrage over working from home is is petty jealousy. But that is pretty typical of the Boomers on here.

Working from home makes all the sense in the world. One of the best things that came out of lockdown.

Witches do their devil's work from home:

making brews and potions. Shocked

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Reply #7 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:25am

mothra wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:15am:

Working from home makes all the sense in the world. One of the best things that came out of lockdown.

And something that has been imagined for decades as an ideal working state - telecommuting, as it was known.

Ironic that those who complain of rampant immigration do not support a working environment that gives women, among other things, a chance at both career advancement and child-rearing.

Also, it is already evolving from work-from-home to work-from-anywhere, with a significant percentage of late Millennials and Zoomers characterising themselves or aspiring to be digital nomads.

With Boomers, having locked down the property market and capital, leaving Zoomers with little to no hope of owning a home, they'd want to leave them nothing at all to aspire to other than life in an office box?

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Reply #8 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:30am

John Smith wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:21am:

As long as the work gets done, who gives a crap where they work from. The problem is the higher ups have no one to lord over when they're the only ones in the office

You've hit on something there. Working from home cuts out middle management to a degree. Even forces reconsideration of upper management.

Sign of the times.

Something no doubt being factored in by businesses for years already.

My daughter's boyfriend works from home. Has for years now. Private company.

It's not new, it makes absolute sense in many instances.

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Reply #9 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:34am

MeisterEckhart wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:25am:

mothra wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:15am:

Working from home makes all the sense in the world. One of the best things that came out of lockdown.

And something that has been imagined for decades as an ideal working state - telecommuting, as it was known.

Ironic that those who complain of rampant immigration do not support a working environment that gives women, among other things, a chance at both career advancement and child-rearing.

Also, it is already evolving from work-from-home to work-from-anywhere, with a significant percentage of late Millennials and Zoomers characterising themselves or aspiring to be digital nomads.

With Boomers, having locked down the property market and capital, leaving Zoomers with little to no hope of owning a home, they'd want to leave them nothing at all to aspire to other than life in an office box?

Actually during Covid -
it was quite good to have work from home from my secretary -

I could ask for accounting and other work to be done such as invoicing
and purchase orders and shipping documents to be done late in the afternoon -
and I didn't have to wait till late the next day for them to be done -
she used to put her kids to bed at 8.00pm
and spend 4 hours till midnight getting the work done.
It was all done for me first thing in the morning at 7.30am.

Work from home was much better.

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Reply #10 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:35am

I'm pretty sure the biggest 'push' to put an end to working from home is coming from the CBD office landlords who don't want to lose too much of the obscene amount of rent they charge.

Oh, and I'm also pretty sure the CBD coffee shop owners - the 'go to' people (after the airlines) for Covid pandemic health "advice" have a lot to do with the push to end working from home as well.

And let's not forget governments who also stand to lose lots of money from people working from home not having to use public transport... and CBD car park operators... the list of greedy, selfish people goes on and on...

(Hey, Bobby... we're still "during Covid", by the way).

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Reply #11 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:40am

Carl D wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:35am:

I'm pretty sure the biggest 'push' to put an end to working from home is coming from the CBD office landlords who don't want to lose too much of the obscene amount of rent they charge.

Oh, and I'm also pretty sure the CBD coffee shop owners - the 'go to' people (after the airlines) for Covid pandemic health "advice" have a lot to do with the push to end working from home as well.

And let's not forget governments who also stand to lose lots of money from people working from home not having to use public transport... and CBD car park operators... the list of greedy, selfish people goes on and on...

(Hey, Bobby... we're still "during Covid", by the way).

I may well be lost in my own fantasies her but what of converting some of that space into residential? A combined effort with both governments helping?

I mean, if we actually want to solve our problems and stuff.

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Reply #12 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:42am

Carl D wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:35am:

I'm pretty sure the biggest 'push' to put an end to working from home is coming from the CBD office landlords who don't want to lose too much of the obscene amount of rent they charge.

Oh, and I'm also pretty sure the CBD coffee shop owners - the 'go to' people (after the airlines) for Covid pandemic health "advice" have a lot to do with the push to end working from home as well.

And let's not forget governments who also stand to lose lots of money from people working from home not having to use public transport... and CBD car park operators... the list of greedy, selfish people goes on and on...

(Hey, Bobby... we're still "during Covid", by the way).

Yes - I was my doctor's the other day and someone phoned in who had Covid -
proven from a test pack -
apparently they were pretty bad and they weren't allowed to
come in and see the doctor - due to the risk of transmission -
they got an eScript - instead. Undecided

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Reply #13 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:42am

Carl D wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:35am:

I'm pretty sure the biggest 'push' to put an end to working from home is coming from the CBD office landlords who don't want to lose too much of the obscene amount of rent they charge.

Oh, and I'm also pretty sure the CBD coffee shop owners - the 'go to' people (after the airlines) for Covid pandemic health "advice" have a lot to do with the push to end working from home as well.

And let's not forget governments who also stand to lose lots of money from people working from home not having to use public transport... and CBD car park operators... the list of greedy, selfish people goes on and on...

(Hey, Bobby... we're still "during Covid", by the way).

Great post Carl

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Reply #14 - May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:43am

mothra wrote on May 22^nd, 2025 at 8:40am:

I may well be lost in my own fantasies her but what of converting some of that space into residential? A combined effort with both governments helping?

I mean, if we actually want to solve our problems and stuff.

Hi mothra.

Actually, that has been suggested by a few people during the past couple of years and it would be a great idea.

I guess it's another one of those things that was put in the "too hard" basket (and will probably stay there, unfortunately).

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