Flexible the new normal as half of ALL Londoners now hybrid workers with pandemic routine ‘here to stay’ September 26, 2022 More than half of London’s workers are spending at least one day a week at home, according to new government figures shared with City A.M. this week. In a government survey of nearly 2000 firms in the city, 32.2 per cent said their workers were in the office one or two days a week, while [...]
Summer in the City: Los Mochis boss on London’s newest open-air hotspot April 16, 2024 Los Mochis City is set to be *the* summer rooftop. We meet the restaurateur behind the newest Square Mile hotspot
It’s all about quality: Fixing the Square Mile’s shopping district March 27, 2023 As Oxford Street struggles to fill vacant spaces on its high street, many in the retail sector are also questioning what the future holds for the Square Mile’s shopping scene. At One New Change, the City’s prime shopping centre, which was launched in 2010 to rival London’s West End, there are about 10 vacant lots, [...]
Home working ‘slowing down’ all UK infrastructure projects, watchdog warns November 14, 2023 Working from home is "slowing down all infrastructure projects" in the UK, a key industry figure warned today.
Even if the pandemic hadn’t happened, we would have all ended up working remotely July 12, 2023 Working from home is not just here to stay, but the actual quantity of work which can be done from home will rise. Employees highly value remote work these days, writes Paul Ormerod
‘The lazy g**s make me sick’: Lord Sugar berates PwC summer working hours as a ‘bloody joke’ May 6, 2022 Lord Alan Sugar has branded PwC’s summer working hours scheme a “bloody joke”, after the Big Four firm said it would give workers Friday afternoons off. The business leader took to Twitter in a tirade against the decision saying the “lazy gits make me sick.” “Call me old fashioned but all this work from home [...]
London, Paris and New York: The cities that migrate faster to flexible working October 3, 2021 New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Frankfurt are primed for a faster transition to hybrid working, given the comparatively high office costs, already flexible working practices and extended lockdowns earlier this year and in 2020. On the other hand, less flexible working cultures in Mumbai, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City mean that any transition [...]
Brits just want some space: Detached property sales outpace other housing May 27, 2023 Detached houses were the most popular type of property among existing homeowners moving home with a mortgage in the year to March, according to analysis of a lending giant’s data. Halifax said detached homes accounted for nearly a third (32%) of such sales, rising from a quarter (25%) a decade ago. While detached homes were [...]
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 [...]
Are Fridays In The Office Over? September 20, 2022 Desk discos, shorter commute times and continued peace and quiet. These are the benefits the 12% of workers who continue to work in the office on a Friday enjoy, while the rest of us remain at home and slide into the weekend a little early. As hybrid working settles in as our new normal, numerous [...]