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With management resistance overcome, working from home may be here to stay

  • Written by Linda Colley, Associate Professor HRM/IR, CQUniversity Australia
With management resistance overcome, working from home may be here to stay

It has been almost 50 years ago since visionaries started predicting a digital revolution enabling many of us to work from home.

But that revolution has long been thwarted by resistance – crucially from management concerned about productivity and performance.

It was the case in 1974, according to Jack Nilles, who led the first major study to...

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