Thousands of Australian public sector staff will be allowed to permanently work from home following a "groundbreaking" union deal — but business lobby groups in one capital city say any move to follow suit at local level would be a "death knell" for CBD retail.
At a time when they’re ramping up interest rates to fight inflation you’d think they’d be happy to have people working from home, driving less, eating out less, and supporting their local community businesses.
Of course that’s if they were rational.
It would be nice to see it encourage more local business growth to cater to the transition to WFH. Though that would be more food outlets than retail.