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Speaker 1: Now this acc union work from home legal cases a

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Speaker 1: good one, and it became even better after the Westpac

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Speaker 1: dispute in Australia last week. Now there are two bits

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Speaker 1: to these sort of cases, these specific as in the

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Speaker 1: what's in a contract, what's the wording? What have you

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Speaker 1: agreed to? What haven't you agreed to? Then the morals

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Speaker 1: the big picture, the team spirit, the attitude. Work from

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Speaker 1: home is a symptom of all that is wrong with productivity,

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Speaker 1: and very few do productivity as Polly's as this country,

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Speaker 1: COVID wrecked the workplace. Basically, it allowed for work from

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Speaker 1: home to be invented, not literally but generally. For a

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Speaker 1: period it was all you could do. And from that

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Speaker 1: moment a seed was planted, and the seed was grown

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Speaker 1: into a mindset. Over a remarkably short period of time,

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Speaker 1: the idea became a habit became a right, became for

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Speaker 1: some the norm. Not just that, so entrenched did it

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Speaker 1: become in the minds of some that what was once

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Speaker 1: not even an idea became something to be outraged about.

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Speaker 1: It the specter of an ending was even uttered, even

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Speaker 1: though you had spent the vast majority of your working

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Speaker 1: life going to the office no one jumps on a

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Speaker 1: get out out of jail free card quicker than a union. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what was or wasn't said at ACC

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Speaker 1: but what I do know is work from home has

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Speaker 1: become a gargantuan piss take. Don't get me wrong. I

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Speaker 1: mean save on the commute, the cost of parking, hopping

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Speaker 1: out a bus or hoping the buses on time, all

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Speaker 1: that stuff that makes sense from a selfish point of view.

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Speaker 1: The Australian case even had the woman moving miles from

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Speaker 1: town so she could drop her kid off at a

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Speaker 1: special school that'd selected That said Westpac was the lifestyle choice,

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Speaker 1: which unquestionably it was. But tough luck, said the court.

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Speaker 1: The woman won. So maybe ACC are on the hiding

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Speaker 1: to nothing. Let's see, but specific society work is a

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Speaker 1: quid pro quo and taking the mickey, which is what

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Speaker 1: work from home is now that you aren't locked down,

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Speaker 1: isn't a balanced relationship. It's a material shift bornham necessity

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