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The future of work

  • Four day work week trial shows 100:80:100 model is taking off in UK but same job in less time may power stress and anxiety

    January 21, 2022

    Three lockdowns have made a large number of employees re-evaluate the notoriously tricky  work-life balance. The four-day working week is seen as the perfect solution, designed to offer employees flexible hours and increase productivity during working hours. To some large businesses the concept has proven more viable , so could the five-day working week the next traditional policy [...]

  • Most UK workers embrace four-day working week with many saying less time in office would boost productivity

    January 19, 2022

    Over half of British workers feel a four-day work week would increase their productivity, according to new data shared with City A.M. today. In fact, 57 per cent of UK employees would like to have more space in their working week by reducing their hours to four days, the research commissioned by Airtasker found.   However, one in three UK workers would consider supplementing their salary [...]

  • US law firm lets lawyers work from home indefinitely

    December 22, 2021

    US law firm Quinn Emanuel have told lawyers they can “work from anywhere” indefinitely, according to reports. The announcement comes as competition among US law firms, to recruit and retain talent, intensifies. While the battle for talent has so far led to a bidding war with lucrative salary hikes, flexible working arrangements appear to be [...]

  • Hybrid working is here to stay: Young talent decline job offers that do not include hybrid options

    November 27, 2021

    A flexible work culture is now a key consideration for most young workers when choosing a job. In fact, talented young people will not join companies that are inflexible about how their employees choose to work, a new study suggests. More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds surveyed by the business finance lender Sonovate said [...]

  • Half of all Londoners say working from home is damaging the capital’s businesses

    October 26, 2021

    Over half of London office workers would be prepared to work from home less in order to help struggling businesses recover from the impact of the pandemic, according to new research, shared with City A.M. today. In fact, over three quarters (76 per cent) of the capital’s office workers felt that it was important to [...]

  • Hybrid working: Discrimination and lack of career progression vs banter and lunches

    October 26, 2021

    Hybrid workers embrace anytime working and say their office culture has changed forever. While many workers have reaped the benefits, working from home has not been a smooth transition for everyone. Concerns over discrimination, career progression, and noise weigh on employees’ minds. Also the lines between anytime working and being ‘always on’ are blurring with [...]

  • Exclusive: Team work, customer service and product quality biggest casualties of the pandemic

    October 21, 2021

    As workers have returned to the office, many companies are looking to break bad habits that have been formed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Working together and team collaboration, or rather the lack of, may be one of those. More than wo fifths of UK employees said their company became a less appealing place to work [...]

  • Many employees confused: Despite hybrid working, many people struggle to juggle work and home life

    October 20, 2021

    The current “one-size-fits-all” solution is not meeting the complex needs of the modern workforce, with people struggling to juggle work and home life, according to a new report. Employees are confused about what work-life balance means for them and are calling for firms to agree a new definition of the term. Research by jobs site [...]

  • WeWork to trade from Thursday after BowX merger

    October 20, 2021

    Office-space provider WeWork is expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange from Thursday after a $9bn merger with special-purpose acquisition company (Spac) BowX Acquisition. As reported by the Financial Times, WeWork’s $9bn market evalutation is a fraction of the initial $47bn at which was listed before tanking its initial listing in 2019. [...]

  • UK green jobs’ revolution needs to be 25 times faster to hit 2030 target says job site

    October 20, 2021

    The UK green jobs’ revolution needs to be 25 times faster if it wants to hit the government’s 2030 target, admonished job site Indeed. In a research published today, Indeed has showed that green job vacancies are at 0.2 per cent, around 2,000 roles per million job postings, despite rising by 13 per cent between [...]

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