{"id":35213,"date":"2021-08-15T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/work-life-balance-has-new-zealand-missed-a-covid-pandemic-reform-opportunity"},"modified":"2021-08-15T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T20:00:49","slug":"work-life-balance-has-new-zealand-missed-a-covid-pandemic-reform-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35213","title":{"rendered":"Work-life balance: has New Zealand missed a Covid pandemic reform opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The benefits of flexible working practices are manifold but not all employers have embraced them<\/p>\n<p>Commuting from the kitchen to the study, workwear from the waist up, an end to traffic jams and awkward office parties \u2013 flexible working was supposed to be one welcome legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic. But in New Zealand, employees are starting to question what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>During the level-3 lockdown in New Zealand last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/vast-majority-of-new-zealanders-dont-want-to-return-to-office-after-covid-19\">a study<\/a> of people working from home showed that 89% wanted to continue in some form post-lockdown \u2013 but by June, when most restrictions had been lifted, almost the same number of employees had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.govt.nz\/news\/four-in-10-employed-new-zealanders-work-from-home-during-lockdown\">gone back to the workplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/work-life-balance-has-new-zealand-missed-a-covid-pandemic-reform-opportunity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The benefits of flexible working practices are manifold but not all employers have embraced themCommuting from the kitchen to the study, workwear from the waist up, an end to traffic jams and awkward office parties \u2013 flexible working was supposed to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35214,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions\/35214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}