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Simon Bridges: Auckland Business Chamber Chief Executive on business confidence slumping amid oil shock · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Remember the outrage over the bureaucrats working from home. Government
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  Speaker 2: comes in and says, pack your lunch, go back to work.
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  Speaker 2: Problem is it's not happening. As you'll know from listening
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  Speaker 2: to this show, ACC is already staged to back down
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  Speaker 2: on that. Now MB is doing the same, and to
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  Speaker 2: her credit Flirfitt Simon's the PSA union has lawyered up
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  Speaker 2: and successfully argued the workers collective contracts allowed them to
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  Speaker 2: work from home, so they should keep it. Now. The
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  Speaker 2: policy to restrict working from home is heading for the bin.
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  Speaker 2: According to MB, some ACC staff only have to be
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  Speaker 2: in the office two days a week, the equivalent of
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  Speaker 2: a weekend at the office. Days off or at home
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  Speaker 2: are usually Fridays and Mondays. Quite convenient for them, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: This is all in spite of the fact that management
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  Speaker 2: at ACC said staff are less productive and it's a
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  Speaker 2: culture killer. Now, I don't blame the workers here, all
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  Speaker 2: the union, they're exercising their rights. They one at fair
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  Speaker 2: and Square. They didn't even have to get to the
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  Speaker 2: employment relations authority, So good on them, But for anyone
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  Speaker 2: who runs a business in the private sector or works
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  Speaker 2: in one, this sort of stuff makes your blood boil,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it. If it's good enough for us, why not them?
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  Speaker 2: Do they really work as much or efficiently at home?
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  Speaker 2: And why was this cause written into their collective contracts
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  Speaker 2: in the first place. Surely, once they expire, the next
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  Speaker 2: offer of work might just require workers to actually turn
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  Speaker 2: up for work.
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