Flexible jobs market booming as UK workers won’t budge on return-to-office demand JOBS MARKET According to exclusive data shared with City A.M. by Flexa, compared to this time last year, 62 per cent more flexible jobs are on offer in job adverts.
What will get London workers back into the office? City Talk Last Friday, passengers began to travel with off-peak Tube and train fares and will be allowed to every Friday until 31st May, 2024. The new scheme – announced by Transport for London (TfL) at the end of January – is a bid to increase the number of people travelling on London transport after it was [...]
More than £80m spent on remote working kit for ‘couch potato’ HMRC staff Tech The taxman purchased over 175,000 laptops, tablet computers, phones, and desktops at a total cost of £82,609,759 over the last three years.
Hybrid work specialist IWG reports record year but stays ‘cautious’ March 5, 2024 As millions of workers around the world adjust to the post-pandemic working environment, the group said it had doubled the number of locations opened during the year
TWaTs: Just a quarter of firms expect staff to be in the office full time December 15, 2023 Only one in four companies expect their staff to be in the office full time in the coming years, research suggests. A survey of more than 1,000 businesses indicates around one in six believe their employees will mainly work remotely. The study, by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and technology firm Cisco, found a [...]
Young City professionals ditch WFH as productivity thrives in the office December 11, 2023 London's young professionals have said they are more productive when working in the office, according to a new survey.
New York tightens leash on home working as London TWaTs lag behind November 28, 2023 Employees' hesitancy to return to the office full time has had an impact on the health of commercial properties, especially in the City.
New flexible office space coming to Liverpool Street after Wework’s bankruptcy November 28, 2023 The site was designed by architects at dMFK, and is part of British Land’s 32-acre Broadgate site, which hosts top financial, legal, tech and media firms, as well as well-known retailers.
Hybrid losing its grip as more workers return to the office October 23, 2023 More workers are returning to the office for the first time since the pandemic, in a sign that hybrid working may be on the way out, according to a new survey. A total of 43 per cent of workers have now returned to the office, while 39 per cent of workers are maintaining a hybrid [...]
Office politics September 29, 2023 Tim Oldman, boss of the workplace consultancy Leesman, tells Andy Silvester the results of our grand hybrid working experiment are still very much in flux Tim Oldman, as befits a man who runs a workplace consultancy, is asked as much as you’d expect about the impact of hybrid working on employees and the economy. Those [...]