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Kennet can get fucked. He fucked this State over, and his ideas are awful.

He closed so many schools in my area, and now with a booming population the existing schools are massively over enrolled and struggling. Fuck you Jeff.

Remote workers are already cheaper for their employers. A workforce of several hundred employees where 90% of them are remote can happily exist using a fraction of the commercial office space that a fully onsite workforce would need.

If remote work is such a win-win for most organisations as well as employees, why is there such a movement to penalise and discourage the concept?

He also proposed to a girls school that they have an extra child for the country, didn't he? Wake up, Jeff.

Teachers and nurses are underpaid and should be paid more because of how important their jobs are to society. Bringing wages down for everyone else is beyond fucking stupid when the same argument can be made about just lifting wages for teachers and nurses.

Teachers and nurses also arguably benefit from wfh. Fewer cars on the road = fewer accidents for nurses to deal with. Parents having better work life balance = more capacity to help their kids learn so teachers are less burdened.

How is anyone still paying Jeff Kennett any attention at this point?

Maybe we should just pay teachers and nurses more?

Cunt

A better way is to change travel time from private time to company time with a cap so people don't abuse it.

E.g. Sydney maximum cap 2 hours each way, Canberra would be like 45 mins. To reduce discrimination for employers to discriminate by choosing closer people, every employer pays the maximum regardless of where the employee is located to the government and the government reimburses the staff, while pocketing the difference.

And how about politicians only get paid for when they are at work sitting in parliament?

And don't get a fat cat pension for the rest of their lives.

The lack of self awareness is fucking unbelievable.

Jeff Kennett desperately trying to remain relevant after dropping out of headlines for a few weeks

Equal pay for equal work. Why should someone working in an office building be paid more than someone working remotely, doing the same job?

It's an unpopular opinion, but I think this will happen organically over the coming decade.

WFH jobs are more desirable, naturally on premise jobs will have to pay more to attract employees.

Saying WFH jobs should take a pay cut is just incendiary phrasing. No one wants a pay cut.

One aspect not mentioned here is that, this will discourage the unnecessary "back to work" movement espoused by commercial property interests.