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More urban sprawl while jobs cluster: working from home will reshape the nation

  • Written by James Lennox, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS), Victoria University

For most of us the experience of working from home this year has, on balance, been positive – enough that it may well become the norm after the COVID-19 crisis ends.

But modelling by Victoria University’s Centre of Policy Studies shows there will be costs alongside the personal benefits, with more urban sprawl, job flight to the biggest...

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