On Wall Street, it might sound like a 15,979-kilometer ticket to nowhere. And yet there was Catherine McCormack, trading a plum job at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in New York for a finance job back home — in Australia.
That might seem like a career-killer, but McCormack, 39, says the pros outweigh the cons in a world still crippled by the lasting impact of the pandemic.
She isn’t alone — for the first time since World War II, more Australians are returning home than leaving. The rough count last year: 25,000. The pandemic has people everywhere rethinking life and work. But few are journeying home quite like Australians, a famously peripatetic crew that for decades has cut a swath through business and finance around the world.