The ACC vs union work from home legal case is a good one and it became even better after the Westpac dispute in Australia last week.

There are two bits to these sorts of cases. One was the specific, as in what's in a contract, what's the wording, what have you agreed to and what haven't you agreed to.

Then you've got the moral question; the big picture, the team spirit and the attitude.

Work from home is a symptom of all that is wrong with productivity and very few do productivity as poorly as this country.

Covid wrecked the workplace. It allowed for work from home to be invented.

Not literally, but generally for a period it was all you could do.

From that moment a seed was planted, and the seed has grown into a mindset.

Over a remarkably short period of time the idea became a habit, a right and, for some, the norm.

Not just that, but so entrenched did it become in the minds of some that what was once not even an idea became something to be outraged about if the spectre of it ending was even uttered.

Even though you have spent the vast majority of your working life going to the office.

No one jumps on a get-out-of-jail card quicker than a union.

I don’t know what was, and wasn’t, said at the ACC. But what I do know is work from home has become a gargantuan piss take.

Don’t get me wrong – you save on the commute, the cost of parking, and you don't have to worry about hoping the bus is on time.

It all makes sense from a selfish point of view.

The Australian case even had the woman moving miles from town so she could drop her kid off at the special school they had selected.

Westpac said that was a lifestyle choice, which unquestionably it was, but tough luck said the court and the woman won.

So maybe ACC are onto a hiding to nothing. Let's see.

But specifics aside, work is a quid pro quo and taking the mickey, which is what work from home is now that you aren't locked down, isn't a balanced relationship.

It’s a material shift, born of necessity, and then abused.

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At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all.

NZ Inc.: 7/10

A good week. Building consents, credit demand, house listings – up, up and up.

Noeline Taurua: 6/10

Spoke for the first time, but in a way where the knots you are tied up in get in the way of the words.

SCOTUS: 2/10

It went about as badly as you might have expected, unless you thought an argument about being a megalomaniac with uncontrollable powers was going to fly.

Sir David Beckham: 8/10

He is a story of inspiration and lovely with it. I'm a fanboy.

New York: 2/10

Mamdani is likeable and slick. But so was Jacinda.

Transmission Gully: 2/10

How can a new road need $32 million worth of repairs, unless you didn’t do it properly in the first place? Which then leads to the question - why didn’t you do it properly in the first place?

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The ongoing US federal government shutdown could stop many Americans returning home for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

The shutdown's now the longest in US history.

Thousands of air traffic controllers and security screeners aren't being paid for their work, prompting a sharp drop in flights across the country.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that more than 5000 flights around the country were delayed in the past 24 hours.

He says air traffic controllers are reportedly resigning every day due to the prolonged nature of the shutdowns.

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