Brits among least likely to say work important to them, survey finds September 7, 2023 British workers rank among the lowest globally for how likely they are to say their work is important to them, a study has found.
Don’t be TWaTs: Councils urged to dodge four-day week plans at risk of being ‘part time town halls’ August 31, 2023 Councils have been urged to swerve introducing four-day work week schemes in a bid to dodge “part-time town halls”. Campaigners at the Taxpayers Alliance (TPA) have written to every council leader in the UK asking them to pledge not to bring in a four-day work week. Many City firms have been accused of a Tuesday, [...]
Hybrid working: Now even Zoom tells staff to be in the office more often August 6, 2023 Zoom, once a remote work champion, has beckoned employees back to the office more often as pandemic work-from-home habits begin to topple. The company synonymous with virtual meetings now insists that staff – known as Zoomies – who live within 50 miles of a Zoom office should abandon their home desks spend at least two [...]
Square Mile booming as return to office and pub ramps up footfall July 6, 2023 The near one thousand pubs and businesses across London’s Square Mile have been boosted by an uptick in footfall across the region in recent months, as punters return to the office and enjoy after work drinks. Tuesday to Thursday footfall, the most popular days in which workers travel in the office, is back to over 80 [...]
London gets new West End flexible work space as Elizabeth Line brings in hybrid commuters July 4, 2023 A new 45,000 sq ft site flexible work space will open in the heart of the West End in a signal that London’s hybrid work trend is showing no signs of cooling. Runway East, (RWE) already has five spaces across London, including sites in Borough Market and Shoreditch – and will open a new one [...]
Google cracks down on hybrid working – and will track staff attendance June 8, 2023 Google is reportedly cracking down on its hybrid-working policy with the tech giant to begin tracking staff office attendance and including employees’ frequency in the office in performance reviews. Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, is said to have written an email to employees on Wednesday, according to reports in CNBC, noting that there is [...]
‘Working’ from home: Laundry, sex and side hustles distract hybrid Londoners from the day job June 6, 2023 One in six Londoners have admitted to having sex whilst they should be working, fresh research shows, as employers across the capital look to stiffen up on hybrid working rules. The data, which was published by LifeSearch, shows that more widely across the UK 1.6 million workers have admitted to getting ‘between the sheets’ between [...]
Hong Kong to San Francisco: How office workers are returning across the globe May 25, 2023 The rise of hybrid working and working from home during the pandemic has left cities across the world facing up to new challenges – but the rate at which staff are returning to their offices is different across the world. Asian cities, despite more strident restrictions on mobility during the pandemic itself, have seen their [...]
‘Job perk’ or employment right? Flexible working a step closer to being law May 19, 2023 Peers have supported moves to give employees the right to request flexible working from their first day in a job. The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill is a “very welcome starting point and not an end point” for reforming working conditions, according to Labour. The measures are supported by the Government and received an unopposed [...]
Derwent: London property investment trust credits ‘busy’ West-End and return to the office for uptake in leases May 4, 2023 Derwent, the London property investment trust, has told investors that London and the West-End is “busy” as a return to offices and shopping signal better times for the capital. In its first quarter trading update, the FTSE 250 real estate firm revealed a 6.6 per cent uptake in the number of leases secured which totalled [...]