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Kahwah Wee, 44, and her husband Nick Poole, 46, plan to continue working from their home in Killara on Sydney’s North Shore.
Prior to the pandemic, Ms Wee ran a call center in Chatswood and was considering finding a new office before the first lockdown in 2020. She has now abandoned plans to find a new office and will continue to run her home-based business.
Since the last lockdown ended in October, Mr Poole, who works as a project manager for a hospitality and entertainment company, has returned to his office one day a week. Starting next year, he plans to return three days a week and also looks forward to working from home two days a week to help care for his children Angela, 12, and Henry, 9.
CSIRO research also found that the number of people working remotely in areas such as the Southern Highlands, Byron Bay in NSW and the Sunshine Coast in Queensland had increased.
Naomi Brooker, 35, who works in public relations moved from Sydney’s eastern suburbs to Byron Bay in June with her husband, an economist, who worked full time in a municipal office before the pandemic.
“With the restrictions in place, we weren’t getting the best of Sydney and didn’t have access to the kind of lifestyle we wanted,” said Ms Brooker.
Naomi Brooker works from home in Byron Bay.
She said the pandemic had “accelerated” their plans to leave town after realizing there was greater acceptance of remote working.
NBN data manager Joanna Gurry said many changes in the ways of working established during the pandemic “will persist, with important implications for how and where we live, work and interact with each other.”
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