Work from home tug-of-war

Recent surveys have shown that with their jobs showing more flexibility about being in the office, many people are considering getting out of the confines of dense cities and going elsewhere. — dpa

BEFORE Covid-19 sent one-third of the global workforce home, the Melbourne property surveyor that employs drone operator Nicholas Coomber called its 180-strong staff into the office every day at 9am to hand out assignments.

Now that they work from home, the surveyors travel straight to the field as early as 7.30am, enabling Coomber to pick up his children from daycare earlier than before the pandemic.