Law Squared's Employment + Workplace Relations Lawyer, Andrew Brooks, discusses the increasing demand for hybrid working in the employment landscape.

Andrew outlines the five main options for businesses considering a hybrid work model: the traditional model of everyone coming in every day, the opposite of no one coming in, the hybrid model of coming in a few days a week and staying at home a few days a week, a condensed model of doing 38 hours in four days, and a controversial option of working from home in exchange for a reduction in salaries.

It's clear that employers must understand their staff and tailor an approach that suits their business, rather than copying what others are doing, to avoid leaving employees dissatisfied and losing productivity, service delivery, and incurring the cost of recruitment.