Question 1b

Read the following passage from a newspaper report and then answer the question below:

When

the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Australia in the early days of 2020, employees

and employers scrambled to implement work-from-home policies. As restrictions

eased across Australia in 2022, employers found themselves in a tug of war with

employees who were keen to retain their new-found pandemic privileges. Amantha

Imber, founder of behavioural science consultancy Inventium, says that employers

need to continue offering flexible work arrangements in order to attract and

retain talent. The evidence is hard to argue with: in November 2022, the most

searched term on SEEK was "working from home", and businesses are seeing

an ever-growing number of requests to keep pandemic policies, such as flexible

working, in the new year.

(Adapted from a report in The Age newspaper, 2023)

Which one of the following most accurately represents the main conclusion of the argument reported above?