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Forget work-life balance – it's all about integration in the age of COVID-19

  • Written by Melissa A. Wheeler, Senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
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It wasn’t the usual end to our staff meeting.

This time, the head of our university department wrapped up the video conference by inviting her nine-year-old son to come and say hello to about a hundred colleagues.

It was an acknowledgement of the changes we have all adopted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The responses required to...

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