Tuesday 20 September 2022 10:29 AM Mark McGowan unleashes an extraordinary rant about working-from-home: Western ... trends now

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Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has slammed work-from-home culture and said it is 'not good for society or the community'.

His extraordinary comments come as his state government prepares to scrap its controversial state of emergency powers that were introduced during the pandemic.

Addressing reporters, Mr McGowan said he'd prefer for people to stop working from home now that the risk of Covid has lessened.  

'I'm a little bit old fashioned about people going into work. I mean police officers, construction workers, mining workers, teachers, nurses, journalists and lots of people out there go to work,' he said. 

'It creates collegiality, it creates a culture that's constructive, people work together to achieve outcomes.

'Everyone sitting in their kitchen on their laptops I don't think generates that.'