Federal public servants would be required to work five days per week in the office, should the coalition win the next election. It's a move the prime minister described as being copied from Donald Trump's playbook.
The opposition's finance spokeswoman Jane Hume, who outlined the coalition's proposal in a speech on Monday night, said work-from-home arrangements had made parts of the public sector ineffective.
"While work-from-home arrangements can work, in the case of the Australian public service, it has become a right that is creating inefficiency," she said in the speech.
"Work-from-home arrangements for public servants should only be in place when the arrangements work for the employee's department, their team and the individual.
"This isn't controversial."
