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The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting September 2026.
But just weeks away from its implementation, the new premier, Ben Carroll, has announced a year’s delay in response to fierce business opposition.
Thousands of miles away, in Portugal, parents of young children already have a legal right to work from home without needing their employers’ approval.
All of these developments raise the question:
How should workers b…

Working from home should be a right, not a reward
An Australian state is set to introduce a law supporting the right to work from home, and it’s already in place for some parents in Portugal. Should it happen elsewhere?

I am working from home. The weather is pleasant so I have the window open.
A child's shout goes up from next door's garden:
"Mum!"
"What's going on?"
"Tell her."
"Tell her what?"
"Tell her to stop annoying me!"
It is only 9:37 on the first day of the school holidays. When do the kids go back?
#GrumpyOldMan

The Trump administration is moving to allow married couples with a
stay-at-home spouse to collect child care subsidies,
a policy championed by Vice President JD Vance,
using funds from a federal program intended to assist working parents, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The change would create the only federal subsidy to pay parents to stay home and raise their children,
one of the most significant efforts to date by the Trump administration t…

Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.

well that was a more interesting evening than expected!
the teenager phoned us around 2200 saying he’s trapped in the bathroom and the door handle isn’t working properly
so i pedal home from the pub to find that, yes, the cheap and cheerful mechanism i installed a few years ago had failed already
so i improvised a plastic shim from some packing material that was flexible enough to fit between the door and the frame … but too flexible to push the latch into the door
i …

Well well - it's almost 11 p.m and I haven't got to brushing my teeth (the risks of working from home and getting sucked in in something). I'm going to correct this misfortunate lack in keeping my mouth clean.

For years, Vice President JD Vance has railed against universal child care
and made snide comments about working families with little ones at home.
On Twitter in 2021, he claimed that “normal” non-affluent Americans prefer “a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force.”
Of course, no parents want their kids in “crap daycare.”
But what American mothers prefer is far more complicated than Vance’s…

Opinion | JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers.
Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.

Doesn't "No 10 North" sound like 'working from home'? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/29/andy-burnham-no-10-north-nerve-centre-rewired-britain

@… The beauty of working from home is that you can scream all you want at the office.

I was born in 1974.
I have greatly benefited from the battles women before me fought.
I'm a licensed CPA with a Masters degree. Own my own home. Live a single, independent life with no one to rely on to cosign or oversee the financial decisions I make.
All of this was practically unthinkable for a woman when I was born.
I have no interest in allowing any of these achievements to go away. We must take back our reproductive rights and continue the fight for civil rights. Not only for cis white women. None of us are free until *all* of us are free.
https://newrepublic.com/article/214828/dolly-parton-fight-working-women