On 5/1/23 09:03, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > This was felt here too during the Pandemic. > > The CBD was dead while the Inner West was a buzz with Remote workers > going out to lunch, libraries, pool, gym and parks. Part of the buzz was due to lockdowns when workers had to be home anyway, but there's no doubt working-from-home is here to stay. Of course there was some backlash from middle-management who could no longer survey their empire from the corner office, but those objections are dissipating in the face of economic reality as companies find their real-estate and associated costs declining.
Having said that, we need to think this through. Will some inner-city office buildings be repurposed as residential? And given Australia is trying to reinvigorate our manufacturing industries, will WFH result in a privileged inner-city class of knowledge workers "going out to lunch, libraries, pool, gym and parks" while an under-privileged class of forgotten others are condemned to the same old routine of clocking on at the factory at 08:00? That would not be good IMO, but I have no idea what to do about it. _David Lochrin_ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
