Sales of second hand homes fell by 2.2 per cent in the third quarter as higher mortgage costs and stretched affordability weighed on demand, according to property tech firm Geowox. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the story. Markets welcomed US midterm results but…
Break-up songs like Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U (a smash for Sinéad O’Connor), Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You (ditto Whitney Houston) and Miley Cyrus’s Flowers have long been popular culture staples. But who knew that breaking up with full-time…
The Washington Post Remote work grows when workers reward it and employers gain confidence running it. A new hire logs in from a kitchen table in Phoenix, joins a standup with teammates in Austin and Bogotá, ships work by lunch,…
Victorian business groups have sounded a warning on the state government’s work-from-home legislation, promising two days a week at home ahead. The majority of businesses in the state are already providing flexible working, meaning there is no problem that requires…
Australia’s business leaders have achieved victory with a Fair Work Commission (FWC) case decision that will essentially rule out a permanent work from home option for many employees across the country. The FWC case involved a man named Charles Gregory,…
Australia’s Fair Work Commission says “work from home” issues only comprise a tiny volume of the body’s caseload amid questions on whether to legislate the right into law. Currently, only Australians aged over 55 or carers can ask for flexible work.
Victoria’s push to legislate the right to work from home has been bolstered by a survey result showing overwhelming support among employees. The survey found more than 74 percent of employees (25,724 respondents) considered the right to work from home “extremely” important.
Australia’s Productivity Commission has told a Senate inquiry there is no clear need to give all workers a legal right to request working from home, arguing that employers and staff are already reaching suitable arrangements without further regulation. Commissioner Catherine…
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Poli sci pioneer E.E. Schattschneider’s “Politics, Pressures, and the Tariff,” a 1935 study of the “Smoot-Hawley” tariff bill — technically the Tariff Act of 1930, signed by Herbert Hoover in June of 1930 — remains a classic analysis of lobbying, interest group politics, and American ‘policymaking…
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