August 18, 2022

NAB Behavioural Insights – The Changing Workplace (Q2 2022)

The “Great Resignation”, Working from Home & Returning to the Office

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the workplace, blending work and life with lasting impacts on workplace culture, employee attitudes and expectations.

After decades of low employee turnover a very sizeable share of the adult working population are still considering leaving their current job, but numbers are declining.

1 in 5 Australians are considering leaving their current job, but numbers are falling. Intentions to leave remain highest in Mining & Agribusiness and among workers in digital/data, sales, labouring and other IT/technology.

Australians are still spending 34% of their work week on average at home (down from 38% in Q1), but ideally still want 48%.

Commute time remains the key (and rising) concern over returning to the workplace, as worries over catching COVID continue to ease.

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NAB Australian Wellbeing Survey Q2 2025

6 August 2025

NAB’s Wellbeing Index rebounded solidly in the June quarter, after falling to its lowest point in the history of the survey. Pressures remain. But the effort required has eased.

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