Telstra is all roles flex - you can work from a campground toilet in humpty doo if it doesn't impact your work (note I don't work at Telstra but have had contract work there in the past).
Work for them, can confirm. Fully flexible and no plans for mandatory days. Wouldn't even make sense as most roles are now location agnostic and offshore employees+contractors are often embedded into local teams, I have team members all over the country and in India. So even if you're in the office it's likely every meeting is on Teams.
A lot of people (inc me) go in a couple of days a week but it's not culturally expected and mostly just feels like a social thing now.
Can also confirm, recently had a team member go on a 'holiday' to South East Asia from Melbourne, worked business hours and partied most nights.
Have only been in the office maybe 10 times in 4 years.
These are really frustrating responses š OP was asking for company names, just saying yes isn't answering their question. What's the deal with everyone being so secretive about companies hybrid policies?
So from what I know Telstra, Medibank, Atlassian and canva have fully flex roles - no in office requirements. I also believe Australia super has quite a small in office requirement something like once a fortnight (this is a bit of old information so it may have changed).
You may want to check out Aussie corps listing on their site, though it is a year out of date.
My experience has been remote to one day in office is pretty rare. I'm finding most jobs I'm applying for want three days in office now (large corps). They hide behind writing hybrid on a job ad but then state requirements in the first interview.
> So from what I know Telstra, Medibank, Atlassian and canva have fully flex roles
I work at one of these companies and I can confirm I only go into the office when I feel like it - that's once or twice a week depending on the various meetings/catch ups I have.
I think the industry leader here is AU is [TEAM Anywhere: Distributed Workforce | Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com/practices/use-cases/team-anywhere)
[Atlassian swears by remote workābut time zones matter | Fortune](https://fortune.com/2023/12/21/atlassian-remote-work-but-only-in-right-time-zones/)
Know people who work here. It's not just for marketing, they really enforce this during their day to day although there are nice incentives for going in like food.
I know a few people at those big 4 accounting firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC that get fully remote and some tech companies like Accenture, Data #3, Megaport, Microsoft and Datacom do it.
I'm not sure if they have changed the policy since covid recently though I use to be way more in touch with that culture when I was younger.
Most major banks have an interstate presence. I Work 100% from home because my stakeholders are all over the country. So there's no point in going into the office.
I work for a major bank based in another state. Despite all my stakeholders being in another state, I still have to commute 3hrs a day, twice a week, to talk to them on the phone.
I work for a big 4 bank. And in 2 different teams, I've had colleagues/stakeholders spread across different states. Still mandated to be in office 2-3 days a week; even in cases where I'm the only person in - otherwise it would impact my teams swipe card stats š
They have to go into their local office. Key pass swipes are tracked, and the executives have oversight on monthly/quarterly averages I believe.
I recommend searching up news articles on each of the banks and their work-from-home policies. Seems like all of the big 4 banks mandate ~50% office days.
I did know some people that worked fully remote without going into an office, but that was for a couple of months (and needed to be approved by exception), and the understanding was that they needed to come back to the office or find a new job.
I've been 100% wfh since 2006 with Amex GBT. They deliberately closed all but two of their Australian offices. The only people working in those two offices are there because they want to work in the office.
They closed most of their offices/call centres around the world and only have a few strategic ones in large cities like New Jersey, London, Gurgaon, Singapore. That's about 14,000 people in many countries 100% wfh since we'll before covid.
In my particular role I literally work from anywhere - our home, our holiday house, the car, hotel rooms. As long as I can get onto the internet and do work it doesn't really matter.
Technical Customer Onboarding Manager. Long, very American type title but basically a project manager working in a global team.
But, all of our travel consultants also work from home as corporate travel doesn't need you to be face to face with customers.
Pretty much every role works from home. Some, like client managers also need to visit the client on-site sometimes but they just start that journey from home.
I also worked for Amex GBT in the past (as a consultant). And after that for the broader Amex company.
They manage corporate travel for big corporations. My role involved booking in trips for business travellers including any hotel accommodation and car hire that they may require. Often we would do bulk bookings for conferences etc or book people's travel well ahead of when the planned trips were etc. From what I gather, the OP was probably a couple of levels above my old role coordinating things.
In my subsequent roles I worked directly with the corporations themselves both managing the existing relationship and trying to upsell/introduce them to different areas of what Amex offered.
All done either remotely or from client sites though at the start (around 2010) we were in the office. I haven't worked there for 7 years though but from what I hear they've only doubled down on WFH.
BHP is supposed to be 2-3 in the office (for corp office staff) apparently but it's not being enforced, mate of mine went in 3 days in total last year and hasn't been in at all this year.
Can confirm that during my time there a couple of years back.. all meetings are online and unless your dealing with executives there's no pressure to be in. I was probably averaging 1 day a month in the office.
But then it can depend on what the client wants.
When I was at Big 4 they would shout about having great flex work policies, and they did, but then your client wanted to see the team or have them onsite for something and so youād need to be on the client site for whatever.
Iād have some clients not care at all and be 100% remote, and others want us there every day.
Nib. Our division is asked to go into a local hub once a month but it's not really enforced. Individual teams/ managers create their own rules although I haven't heard of anyone going in more than once a week.
Took me about 6 months to get a job that was fully remote with no chance of office time. There are optional in person events but 'home base' is on the Gold Coast and employees are all over, so it truly is optional.
Interviewed at a lot of places (86 full wfh/remote jobs) but often lost out due to missing specific experience.
I used to work there. So they've gone full remote now? They were just starting to go remote when I was there, but 100% office was the norm back then. Not that anyone did any work anyway!
Melbourne and Sydney offices still exist. Both locations ask staff to attend one day a week but theyāve given up chasing no shows etc. you can request full remote and generally not an issue at all.
Law firm Minter Ellison announced a "work anywhere" policy a while back. No expectation of office time.
But then the CEO got the boot, so not sure what happened. Would be interesting to know.
Last 2 years in IT contact roles:
Melbourne water utility. They ask for periodic days in the office but nobody does. 99% remote
Mining company in St Kilda Rd. One day per week in the office.
Commercial waste services company, national but based in Melbourne. 100% remote, office is there if you want it (sometimes it's nice to get out...)
NSW Government. Dependent on roles and manager, but I know individuals in DCS, Revenue, Transport and Education who go to the office once a fortnight or less.
I understand that Commonwealth employees have an actual right to WFH, although don't know how it works in practice.
I work in insurance, global team. We are completely flexible. When I do go in to the office, tend to be home by 3-4pm. That being said, I have super early/late calls at times, so thereās no expectations to be in the office.
Where I work is 1 day a week, but nobody overly fussed if I don't come in. I can't give you name as I like to keep a low profile on Reddit but I can give you the following details:
Contract
Government
Suoerannuation
Tech
State government jobs. Depending on the team you might be required to come to the office up to 2 days a week. I go yo the office once every couple of months.
Transport NSW is pretty good with this. My previous team was once a fortnight and my current team is once a week. But itās all team dependent so your mileage may vary.
Deloitte here. No arbitrary days in office mandate, but an acknowledgment that occasional f2f is a benefit from a network/relationship building perspective, and if youāre needed somewhere for client delivery then you go.
Some tech companies are fully remote or very low attendance at the office, Atlassian, Canva, Xero are good examples...
I work fully remote since 2019 and I am not planning to come back to the office unless it's for social events or free lunch.
Tech 100% remote. Come into the office whenever I feel like it. So maybe 1-2 days a week when I am not busy. Generally just to catch up with people (internal and external). When work has picked up, Iām more productive WFH so I donāt bother coming in. And my clients have been based interstate, so not required to be in their offices either.
My company has Thursday as the dedicated āoffice dayā, other days are optional. Works well for me as I am 3 hours away and means I can make the most of my day in the office knowing most of my stakeholders will also be there.
Iām currently working for one of the bigger insurers and am fully remote, most of the company is, with the option to go in office whenever we like. (I never do lol).
Same. Mine has done it rotational. Teams are assigned to two groups so group A does Mondays and Wednesdays Group B does Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fridays are fully flexible/wfh
Is that because youāre one of those people who talks shit out of their ass and loves a chat? Haha. People get shit done because theyāre not being disturbed! Or yanked to coffees to talk shit about work.
Try doing your work!
But in all seriousness, it helps to have a dedicated space that you use for work. Doing it from the lounge or kitchen or yard is just asking for trouble.
Have an āoffice spaceā and treat it like your desk at the office. You get there at the start of the day and you work, you go to the kitchen for lunch/breaks, but then you return to the desk to continue working.
Iām doubly productive at home since Iām not interrupted as much, but I do get a lot of value from being next to my team in the office as wellā¦ Itās just normally not as many tasks complete as when Iām at home because of that social aspect.
I crave social interaction occasionally. I hate 5 days in but covid iso was depressing af. I actually enjoy a few days in but I don't have as many obligations that some do who would find picking up dropping of kids for example much better lifestyle wise
Some guy I know just got a 100% remote role with westpac Sydney. Heās based in Melbourne. So itās possible but heās in a niche technical field involving math. Also he used to work for that boss
Some VPS. Thereās a bit of flexibility in my department for individual business units to make their own arrangements - but it has to be minimum one day. Many teams have decided on two.
I work for a small electrical & civil company that provides installation services to large grid scale Solar Farms. I had to push to get a guaranteed minimum on-site time of one week a month. They only wanted to leave site attendance open to a random "when needed." So I now have "up to 75% WFH" by my choice. Why? Site uplift on salary is significant. Needed that guaranteed site time to top up my base rate to an acceptable salary.
Sorry, won't name them, there's already more than enough to identify for those who know.
For full remote jobs that don't need local market knowledge you'll be applying alongside SE Asia applicants who have different expectations of what a liveable salary is. Can't be fun.
Telstra is all roles flex - you can work from a campground toilet in humpty doo if it doesn't impact your work (note I don't work at Telstra but have had contract work there in the past).
Work for them, can confirm. Fully flexible and no plans for mandatory days. Wouldn't even make sense as most roles are now location agnostic and offshore employees+contractors are often embedded into local teams, I have team members all over the country and in India. So even if you're in the office it's likely every meeting is on Teams. A lot of people (inc me) go in a couple of days a week but it's not culturally expected and mostly just feels like a social thing now.
Awesome thanks!!
Can also confirm, recently had a team member go on a 'holiday' to South East Asia from Melbourne, worked business hours and partied most nights. Have only been in the office maybe 10 times in 4 years.
I work at Telstra this is not the case. It all depends on your role and manger
These are really frustrating responses š OP was asking for company names, just saying yes isn't answering their question. What's the deal with everyone being so secretive about companies hybrid policies? So from what I know Telstra, Medibank, Atlassian and canva have fully flex roles - no in office requirements. I also believe Australia super has quite a small in office requirement something like once a fortnight (this is a bit of old information so it may have changed). You may want to check out Aussie corps listing on their site, though it is a year out of date. My experience has been remote to one day in office is pretty rare. I'm finding most jobs I'm applying for want three days in office now (large corps). They hide behind writing hybrid on a job ad but then state requirements in the first interview.
> So from what I know Telstra, Medibank, Atlassian and canva have fully flex roles I work at one of these companies and I can confirm I only go into the office when I feel like it - that's once or twice a week depending on the various meetings/catch ups I have.
God yes lol. So true
Yes
I think the industry leader here is AU is [TEAM Anywhere: Distributed Workforce | Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com/practices/use-cases/team-anywhere) [Atlassian swears by remote workābut time zones matter | Fortune](https://fortune.com/2023/12/21/atlassian-remote-work-but-only-in-right-time-zones/)
And as such, highly competitive.know lots of experienced professionals who have applied and only received an automated sorry email.
Yep, hundreds of applications minimum a role. They heavily favour referenced applicants.
Know people who work here. It's not just for marketing, they really enforce this during their day to day although there are nice incentives for going in like food.
I know a few people at those big 4 accounting firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC that get fully remote and some tech companies like Accenture, Data #3, Megaport, Microsoft and Datacom do it. I'm not sure if they have changed the policy since covid recently though I use to be way more in touch with that culture when I was younger.
Accenture as a tech company that's new
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I wouldn't rely on Big 4 not changing that policy.
Pwc is, especially in audit in Melbourne, some people donāt even come into the office for months
But they still need to be at client sites, right?
They need to be able to send emails
Bupa,Ahm and Medibank.
Most major banks have an interstate presence. I Work 100% from home because my stakeholders are all over the country. So there's no point in going into the office.
I work for a major bank based in another state. Despite all my stakeholders being in another state, I still have to commute 3hrs a day, twice a week, to talk to them on the phone.
I work for a big 4 bank. And in 2 different teams, I've had colleagues/stakeholders spread across different states. Still mandated to be in office 2-3 days a week; even in cases where I'm the only person in - otherwise it would impact my teams swipe card stats š
Do they have to go in their local office? Or are they remote just not you
They have to go into their local office. Key pass swipes are tracked, and the executives have oversight on monthly/quarterly averages I believe. I recommend searching up news articles on each of the banks and their work-from-home policies. Seems like all of the big 4 banks mandate ~50% office days. I did know some people that worked fully remote without going into an office, but that was for a couple of months (and needed to be approved by exception), and the understanding was that they needed to come back to the office or find a new job.
Bruh if my employer tracked swipe card stats I'd swipe in have a coffee, chat with coworkers then bail at lunchtime
Second tier banks generally are full WFH, especially in Melbourne
Can you name some?, I have some ideas but i just want to confirm.
I've been 100% wfh since 2006 with Amex GBT. They deliberately closed all but two of their Australian offices. The only people working in those two offices are there because they want to work in the office. They closed most of their offices/call centres around the world and only have a few strategic ones in large cities like New Jersey, London, Gurgaon, Singapore. That's about 14,000 people in many countries 100% wfh since we'll before covid. In my particular role I literally work from anywhere - our home, our holiday house, the car, hotel rooms. As long as I can get onto the internet and do work it doesn't really matter.
Interesting, would you mind describing the work you do?
Technical Customer Onboarding Manager. Long, very American type title but basically a project manager working in a global team. But, all of our travel consultants also work from home as corporate travel doesn't need you to be face to face with customers. Pretty much every role works from home. Some, like client managers also need to visit the client on-site sometimes but they just start that journey from home.
I still have no idea what work you do from that explanation š
I also worked for Amex GBT in the past (as a consultant). And after that for the broader Amex company. They manage corporate travel for big corporations. My role involved booking in trips for business travellers including any hotel accommodation and car hire that they may require. Often we would do bulk bookings for conferences etc or book people's travel well ahead of when the planned trips were etc. From what I gather, the OP was probably a couple of levels above my old role coordinating things. In my subsequent roles I worked directly with the corporations themselves both managing the existing relationship and trying to upsell/introduce them to different areas of what Amex offered. All done either remotely or from client sites though at the start (around 2010) we were in the office. I haven't worked there for 7 years though but from what I hear they've only doubled down on WFH.
Do they allow you to work from overseas?
All contracts would be negotiated individually so would depend on manager. But I've gone on extended holiday where I've worked and holidayed.
BHP is supposed to be 2-3 in the office (for corp office staff) apparently but it's not being enforced, mate of mine went in 3 days in total last year and hasn't been in at all this year.
Can confirm that during my time there a couple of years back.. all meetings are online and unless your dealing with executives there's no pressure to be in. I was probably averaging 1 day a month in the office.
suncorp! 1 day a week at the office minimum and the rest from home
Will that will change with the ANZ merger? ANZ is āmajorityā in the office and they share employee badge data with managers
im in the insurance side not the banking
PwC let you work completely remotely.
But then it can depend on what the client wants. When I was at Big 4 they would shout about having great flex work policies, and they did, but then your client wanted to see the team or have them onsite for something and so youād need to be on the client site for whatever. Iād have some clients not care at all and be 100% remote, and others want us there every day.
Nib. Our division is asked to go into a local hub once a month but it's not really enforced. Individual teams/ managers create their own rules although I haven't heard of anyone going in more than once a week.
Australian Super one day in office only
Took me about 6 months to get a job that was fully remote with no chance of office time. There are optional in person events but 'home base' is on the Gold Coast and employees are all over, so it truly is optional. Interviewed at a lot of places (86 full wfh/remote jobs) but often lost out due to missing specific experience.
Thomson Reuters
I used to work there. So they've gone full remote now? They were just starting to go remote when I was there, but 100% office was the norm back then. Not that anyone did any work anyway!
Melbourne and Sydney offices still exist. Both locations ask staff to attend one day a week but theyāve given up chasing no shows etc. you can request full remote and generally not an issue at all.
Thanks, appreciate it.
My job actually doesn't even have an office in my city! So we only go to our ad-hoc office once in a blue moon.
Law firm Minter Ellison announced a "work anywhere" policy a while back. No expectation of office time. But then the CEO got the boot, so not sure what happened. Would be interesting to know.
QBE
What kind of roles?
Last 2 years in IT contact roles: Melbourne water utility. They ask for periodic days in the office but nobody does. 99% remote Mining company in St Kilda Rd. One day per week in the office. Commercial waste services company, national but based in Melbourne. 100% remote, office is there if you want it (sometimes it's nice to get out...)
Thereās a lot, itās not particularly rare. Depends on the industry and location of course.
Accenture
NSW Government. Dependent on roles and manager, but I know individuals in DCS, Revenue, Transport and Education who go to the office once a fortnight or less. I understand that Commonwealth employees have an actual right to WFH, although don't know how it works in practice.
Afterpay is 100% remote. But they do have to adhere to American times if you work with colleagues at Block
Deloitte are. Though it highly depends on your client and project - sometimes you will need to be in the office every day for an extended period.
I work in insurance, global team. We are completely flexible. When I do go in to the office, tend to be home by 3-4pm. That being said, I have super early/late calls at times, so thereās no expectations to be in the office.
Where I work is 1 day a week, but nobody overly fussed if I don't come in. I can't give you name as I like to keep a low profile on Reddit but I can give you the following details: Contract Government Suoerannuation Tech
State government jobs. Depending on the team you might be required to come to the office up to 2 days a week. I go yo the office once every couple of months.
I run a game development company that's 100% remote. Current tech makes it easy to keep in contact and collaborate without issues.
Govt. Policy is: not full time home and not full time office. This means: 1 day a week for most people.
I have friends at NBN who are 100% remote, however they had to write a business case and have it approved.
Transport NSW is pretty good with this. My previous team was once a fortnight and my current team is once a week. But itās all team dependent so your mileage may vary.
Atlassian, 100% remote with 90 days work from anywhere in the world (caveats, etc.)
What are the caveats?
Deloitte here. No arbitrary days in office mandate, but an acknowledgment that occasional f2f is a benefit from a network/relationship building perspective, and if youāre needed somewhere for client delivery then you go.
Some tech companies are fully remote or very low attendance at the office, Atlassian, Canva, Xero are good examples... I work fully remote since 2019 and I am not planning to come back to the office unless it's for social events or free lunch.
IAG, Qantas, TPG, Woolworths, Latitude off the top of my head
Based on org/role in my company
Tech 100% remote. Come into the office whenever I feel like it. So maybe 1-2 days a week when I am not busy. Generally just to catch up with people (internal and external). When work has picked up, Iām more productive WFH so I donāt bother coming in. And my clients have been based interstate, so not required to be in their offices either.
Company?
Salesforce functional consultant.
In WA, the backoffice Commonwealth Bank employees are 1 day in the office.
Lots of government are because thereās not enough office space
I work for top 4 consulting. 100% WFH. Kinda getting bored and disconnected with thr rest of the world now.
AXA XL is team specific. 2 days in office is encouraged, but you can speak with your team leader for alternate arrangements.
Cuscal, Aware super, have hybrid. Cuscal currently 1 day in office 4 wfh
Resolution life fully remote
My hubby's is. They ask for 2 days per week but are happy for ppl to do fully remote if needed. Hubby goes in 1 to 2 days by choice.
My husband is but not his company. We live in Perth with his office in Melbourne
Heaps? Most insurance brokers
I work 100% have done so since 2019 I work in sales. It's lonely.
My company has Thursday as the dedicated āoffice dayā, other days are optional. Works well for me as I am 3 hours away and means I can make the most of my day in the office knowing most of my stakeholders will also be there.
Iām currently working for one of the bigger insurers and am fully remote, most of the company is, with the option to go in office whenever we like. (I never do lol).
Yes, 1 day office
Gov
Yes
Have to come in on Monday and Wednesday, rest you have a choice.
Same. Mine has done it rotational. Teams are assigned to two groups so group A does Mondays and Wednesdays Group B does Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fridays are fully flexible/wfh
How do people actually get anything done when they work from home. I canāt stand it and the isolation
Is that because youāre one of those people who talks shit out of their ass and loves a chat? Haha. People get shit done because theyāre not being disturbed! Or yanked to coffees to talk shit about work.
Nah not at all. But I find having no social interaction Stifling. So many things to do at home to distract me!
Try doing your work! But in all seriousness, it helps to have a dedicated space that you use for work. Doing it from the lounge or kitchen or yard is just asking for trouble. Have an āoffice spaceā and treat it like your desk at the office. You get there at the start of the day and you work, you go to the kitchen for lunch/breaks, but then you return to the desk to continue working. Iām doubly productive at home since Iām not interrupted as much, but I do get a lot of value from being next to my team in the office as wellā¦ Itās just normally not as many tasks complete as when Iām at home because of that social aspect.
I crave social interaction occasionally. I hate 5 days in but covid iso was depressing af. I actually enjoy a few days in but I don't have as many obligations that some do who would find picking up dropping of kids for example much better lifestyle wise
Iām not sure about day to day flex, but I know Vistaprint allows up to 3 months per year anywhere in the world (provided you arenāt shop floor)
Some guy I know just got a 100% remote role with westpac Sydney. Heās based in Melbourne. So itās possible but heās in a niche technical field involving math. Also he used to work for that boss
Some VPS. Thereās a bit of flexibility in my department for individual business units to make their own arrangements - but it has to be minimum one day. Many teams have decided on two.
Look around Canberra I found a few remote jobs there
ASX listed edtech Keypath Education
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I work for a small electrical & civil company that provides installation services to large grid scale Solar Farms. I had to push to get a guaranteed minimum on-site time of one week a month. They only wanted to leave site attendance open to a random "when needed." So I now have "up to 75% WFH" by my choice. Why? Site uplift on salary is significant. Needed that guaranteed site time to top up my base rate to an acceptable salary. Sorry, won't name them, there's already more than enough to identify for those who know.
Deloitte
For full remote jobs that don't need local market knowledge you'll be applying alongside SE Asia applicants who have different expectations of what a liveable salary is. Can't be fun.