Office & Workplace at Services Australia

Average standard however aligned with responsible public spending - which brings into question why we pay consultants with all their largess when it comes to staff benefits etc and to add injury, we pay a profit margin on top. Smells like double standards and political favouritism when budget setting.

Very well maintained

Office spaces and facilities are adequate. Location could improve to be more central. Dress code is business dress.

The office space I'm in is a little underwhelming, the elevators are very slow, the water fountains rarely work, the fridges on many floors are quite full so I bring a esky/lunchbox - however, the location is great, the dress-code has never been an issue people are professional in their appearance but not snobbish and rude. - it feels accepting to all.

Offices are fine to good. Aesthetically not much to say, but each desk is sit stand with two monitors and an adjustable chair. Each floor has a kitchen, two toilets each for male and female, and a disabled/gender neutral toilet. Each floor is accessed by a lift. The building I'm in actually has a free small gym that can be used by people working in the building, as well as a large bike parking area. Location is a few minutes walk from a train station, and quite accessible by tram as well. You can usually get to the shopping district of the city and back within a half hour lunch break if you need to run errands. Services Australia does take its physical/ergonomic safety seriously, so they are very responsive to fixing things such as broken monitors, or even providing a specialised mouse or padded wrist rest if required. Dress code is no jeans, no sports clothes, neat, no political statements, and nothing offensive, so pretty normal. Different teams have different expectations r.e. dress, but I definitely haven't had to wear suit and tie to work ever (except when visiting canberra).

More than adequate office space and facilities. Dress code is business wear.

Depending on what office you work in.

it's fine, nothing great or bad about any of it. The uniform isn't great, it feels and looks cheap, so I do not feel very professional wearing it.

The office is well equipped but I find it inconvenient to be on the 10th floor. I dress in business casual most days.

Very modern open office with good facilities.

We just moved into a new building.

It's a modern office, which means it's awful. We moved from a lovely 80's office which was colourful in a retro way and had good privacy to a modern office which requires pass scanning at least twice to enter the office (which sometimes don't work) and an open-plan layout which designers fetishize but is awful for actual working. Privacy is non-existent, the office is extremely loud and open so people use headphones rather than talking to each other, and you lack any sense of security or permanence because you don't own your desk and can't decorate. God help you if you have any kind of noise sensitivity or want your privacy when working. Thing cost in the region of 100 million I believe too. Dress code is quite good though: standard office stuff.

The offices can be old depending on where you are. Facilities are usually fine. The dress code is business casual for back office, uniform for front office. Business attire when the bosses are around.

We've worked in two buildings while here and I can say I do prefer the new office building. However, since moving there has been a greater mandate for employees to abide by the corporate attire dress code. Although this is standard for most office places, I have sensed a lack of consistency for what is acceptable for male and female attire respectively. Although I have no qualms with office attire in a general sense, I believe it is important to make concessions dependent on the environmental conditions - especially when moving into a building that doesn't always have the best ventilation and climate settings for corporate attire. Adelaide is known for being a very warm place and mandating a collared shirt and pants for your Male staff is hard to justify when Female staff can wear sundresses without any sort of comment or follow up. I've had my attire commented on a number of times - even to the point where my director asked me to tuck my shirt in. Again, I don't have an issue with people wearing sundresses. I just think it's important to take into account that although the office may be air conditioned - public transport isn't always and when staff on lesser salaries have that as their most tenable option to get to work, I think it is a little harsh to expect the corporate attire recommendations to be followed to the letter for one group of staff and not necessarily the other.

Dress code appropriate and generally adhered to. Location convenient and space comfortable

The air conditioning doesn't really work quite well. Otherwise it is a decent office. Dress code is standard, no issue. The bathrooms in the office are very clean and nice.

Plenty of space and facilities are great Dress code is semi-formal. e.g. for male corporate staff a tie is not required

No big issues a few issues with heating and cooling of the buildings and access to parking for all employees.

Facilities vary between buildings but are generally sufficient and well cared for. Some maintenance requests take a long time to be actioned which would be my only gripe to do with facilities (eg. a tap on my floor has been out of use for longer than I have been in this team which is now almost 3 months leaving only 1 working tap for a whole floor to use)

The office space is adequate, so are the facilities. We have to wear uniforms as we are customer facing, but non-customer facing wear business casual.