The office is not dead – far from it, say City insiders April 26, 2021 As the economy starts to reopen, the City is slowly coming back to life. A range of banks and Square Mile-based firms have started to formalise work from home policies and implemented flexible working arrangements. Businesses in every sector have been debating concepts of what the post-Covid office could look like with pessimists doubting its [...]
97 per cent of office workers want a work from home arrangement post-pandemic April 26, 2021 Nearly all employees who are currently working from home prefer to keep doing just that, even when offices are open. According to a survey conducted by Nyenrode Business University, Open University and Moneypenny, 97 per cent of all office workers wants to maintain a work-from-home mode, with 9 per cent preferring to work from home [...]
Side-hustle: One in five freelancers have another job alongside April 26, 2021 Nearly one in five freelancers are self-employed as a side-gig alongside an employee position, according to new research from a freelance jobs marketplace. Freelancing was the ticket out to a higher income during multiple lockdowns for many in the UK, PeoplePerHour found, as more people have turned to freelancing alongside employee jobs during the pandemic. “There [...]
Older workers in worst job market ‘since 1980s’ April 26, 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the largest annual employment fall for older workers since the 1980s, according to a report published today. Older and younger workers have been heavily knocked by the pandemic job market, which has seen a U-shaped employment shock. “While the youngest workers have been hardest hit by the crisis, older workers [...]
Fear for the office emerges as Covid sufferers are reluctant to return April 23, 2021 More than a year after the first Covid-19 lockdown, a new trend is emerging among Brits who have been working from home, a genuine fear for the office, according to a new study shared with City A.M. Amongst Brits that now work from home, this trend is more prevalent among those who previously tested positive [...]
Accept working from home as the new normal, insurance industry told April 21, 2021 Millions of people might find their insurance policies do not cover them for work-related accidents that take place at home as lockdown eases across the UK, and this is wrong, an insurer has stated. Until recently, insurers had to apply home and contents policies to home workers and the self-employed as the country was being [...]
Suits you, sir: can bespoke tailoring survive the pandemic? April 20, 2021 One of the dominant themes to emerge as we fight our way out of the Covid pandemic is what the future of the workplace might look like. Will employees still feel safe congregating together to share that quicksilver creative spark? Will businesses reduce their footprint and have teams at home two or three days a [...]
Rail firms to launch flexible season tickets to lure commuters back to city centres April 16, 2021 Ministers and rail chiefs are finalising a new system of flexible season tickets designed to entice commuters back to city centres as the shift to hybrid working takes off. Cost concerns mean the discounts will be much less generous than for traditional season tickets, to spare the taxpayer from further expenses, the Telegraph has revealed. [...]
No vaccine? Yes, employers can bar you from the office April 15, 2021 As the Covid vaccine rollout is in full swing across Britain, with more 32m Brits having received a first dose, an increasing number of employers hinted in recent weeks that they would require their staff to be vaccinated in order to return to the office. Pimlico Plumbers was the first company in London to publicly [...]
Almost half of UK office workers ‘scared to return’ to workplace, research shows April 12, 2021 Around 40 per cent of UK office workers are worried about catching Covid from their colleagues by returning to the workplace, a new report has found. Over a third of workers also said they were fearful of contracting the virus through contaminated equipment such as computers and keyboards. The Supporting Your Remote Workforce in 2021 [...]