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Working from home: what are your employer's responsibilities, and what are yours?

  • Written by Robin Price, Lecturer in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, CQUniversity Australia
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So you’ve been asked to work from home.

Doing so usually requires changing aspects of your relationship with your employer. What it doesn’t change is that your relationship is based on mutual obligations. These remain exactly the same even though you work at home.

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