The Debate: Should bosses dictate wellbeing policies? Opinion The Debate: Should bosses dictate wellbeing policies?
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Gen Z can’t use pens and Boomers are too slow: The office as a generational battleground March 14, 2024 Gen Xers (born 1965-1980) and Millennials (born 1981-1996) are the biggest groups in the workplace, accounting for over a third of employees. Around
Long-term sickness prevents 2.5m people from working, report suggests September 25, 2023 Women, young men and people unable to work from home are more likely to suffer from long-term sickness which prevents them from working, according to a new report. One in 16 working-aged people in the UK – or around 2.5m – are “economically inactive” due to long-term sickness, the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) said. [...]
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 [...]
Multi-tasking and burnt-out, but working Brits are sleeping more than they did in the 1970s April 3, 2023 Women are working an average of 13 per cent longer hours compared to the 1970s, while men’s working hours dropped by an average of two per cent, a think tank report has found. Researchers at Onward found, on average, Britain is not working significantly more, as full-time male workers have seen their hours fall by [...]
Lloyd’s of London chief: Why the City needs Monday to ‘come back’ March 8, 2023 Lloyd’s of London chief executive John Neal has said he wants to “get Monday back” in calling for brokers and underwriters to return to the office four days a week. The insurance chief said that while “Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are busy” he now wants Lloyd’s staff to work in the firm’s City building on [...]
Freshfields calls lawyers back into the office for at least three days a week August 15, 2022 Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has upped the minimum number of days it expects its lawyers to come to the office from two-and-a-half to three days a week. Lawyers working at the Magic Circle firm’s London and Manchester businesses will now be expected to work from the office for at least three [...]
Peloton sends staff back to the office in far-reaching turnaround plan August 13, 2022 Exercise bike maker Peloton has set out plans to hike its prices, cut costs, and force its staff back into the office, as it seeks to turnaround after demand for its home gym equipment dipped following the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions. In an internal memo published by Bloomberg, the New York headquartered running machine seller [...]