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The 2026 Working From Home Benchmark Report gives Australian accounting practices objective data on how the profession is actually running flexible work — so you can benchmark your own arrangements, review your policy settings and have partner conversations grounded in real data, not assumptions.
Twenty-four pages covering working models and eligibility, policy and governance, productivity and the measurement gap, benefits and costs, culture and junior development, external pressures including proposed legislation, and an eight-question benchmark scorecard for your next partners’ meeting.
Published August 2026 and delivered by email. Survey participants who requested a copy receive the report at no charge.
Flexible work is settled. Whether it is working is not.
How does your firm's approach compare with other Australian accounting practices — on flexibility, productivity, policy, culture, junior development and what comes next?
Working from home has become normal in this profession. Whether it is doing what firms hoped it would do is a separate question, and very few practices have answered it. The report sets out what the profession can, and cannot yet, say about it.
Whether you offer flexible work and want to know how your settings compare, are weighing a change to your arrangements, or have decided against working from home and want to understand the pressures ahead.
66 practices responded to the survey between 16 July and 21 August 2026: 63 accounting practices and three financial services practices. They range from sole practitioners to firms of more than one hundred staff, across city, suburban and regional Australia. Every figure in the report is drawn directly from the survey data, with the base for each result stated beneath each chart. Responses are confidential and reported in de-identified form only.
Results are self-reported and the sample is self-selected, so the findings are an indicative benchmark of participating practices rather than a census of the profession. Where the report refers to matters outside the survey, such as proposed legislation, that material is clearly marked as context and was current at the time of writing.
Our next benchmark survey will examine how AI is actually being used in the profession, and what it is doing to productivity, staffing and pricing. Join our mailing list to take part when the survey opens, or to be notified when the report is released.
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