Working from home is likely to be beneficial for productivity as long as employees still come into the office a few days a week to generate ideas and learn from each other, the Productivity Commission has concluded in an extensive review of the pandemic economy.
In its examination of the so-called pandemic “productivity bubble”, where productivity surged at the onset of COVID-19 before collapsing when the economy reopened, the PC said the expansion of the care economy, including the rapidly growing National Disability Insurance Scheme, had been a drag on productivity.
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