Some jobs ‘you can’t do from your lounge room’, public servants told
Tom BurtonGovernment editor
The federal government has sought to limit work-from-home flexibility, cautioning its 180,000-strong public service workforce that staff need agreement from their agency to take up the practice and many frontline workers will still not be able to do so.
Assistant Public Service Minister Patrick Gorman told an Australian Public Service Commission forum that many jobs – such as those carried out by Border Force officers – would require staff to attend the workplace.
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