Jules Hall on ABC RN ‘This Working Life’

Our CEO, Jules Hall, contributed to an episode of the ABC’s This Working Life dedicated to the discussion around how businesses are tackling the ‘return to work’ debate.

The Hallway has made a decision to provide our team with total flexibility and choice in how and where they work, as we believe that work is no longer a place you go, but it’s a thing we do.

Have a listen to the discussion, hosted by Lisa Leong.

Is it safe to go back? How should it be managed? Will your skirt/pants still fit or is an emergency shopping trip on the cards?

As restrictions begin to ease around the country, businesses are grappling with how to transition employees back to the office space. And employees are struggling with the idea too.

We speak with Clare Harding who heads up the return to the workplace transition at consulting firm Deloitte, where 10,000 employees were transitioned to remote working in one week. Their approach will be a staggered hybrid model, with a “pilot” mindset.

According to a recent survey by the Australian HR Institute the thing employees are most anxious about are their health and wellbeing. AHRI CEO Sarah McCann-Bartlett describes how employers might provide such support in the return to work.

And finally, Jim Stanford, the director of the Centre for Future Work, draws attention to the flip side of remote working - what are employee’s rights to demand a safe office working environment?