A Booth of One’s Own: My antidote to the open-plan office Life&Style For a woman to write – or, more exactly, to write well – she must possess a room of her own. On this, Virginia Woolf was unequivocal. “Give her a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind and leave out half that she now puts in, and she [...]
The Debate: Should bosses dictate wellbeing policies? Opinion The Debate: Should bosses dictate wellbeing policies?
All the best offices are embracing the Great Outdoors (so leave HSBC alone) Opinion From smoking den to outdoor zen – offices are embracing green spaces, says Lucy Arthur
When it comes to flexible working, what matters is output July 15, 2024 Debates about working from home should be based on evidence, not an inter-generational culture war, says Eliot Wilson We have been debating the benefits and challenges of “flexible working” for decades, but it was the enforced disruption of the Covid-19 lockdown which forced the issue to the top of employers’ agendas. Like many crises, the [...]
TSB shifts Square Mile hub as staff defy work from home expectations June 16, 2024 The controversial work-from-home trend, catalysed by the Covid-19 lockdowns, has drawn criticism by some business leaders and politicians.
Franco Manca and The Real Greek owner blames home workers for fall into the red despite sales rising to £100m May 14, 2024 The owner of the Franco Manca and The Real Greek restaurant chains has blamed the rise in home working for it slipping into the red.
Gen z aren’t lazy – they just know that work doesn’t pay May 2, 2024 Generation z are shunning the corporate ladder because they recognise we live in an asset-driven economy that penalises work
How work from home could be denting London’s GDP March 25, 2024 The new work-from-home era has inflated London’s GDP by over £8bn, as outdated measures of regional growth have warped official calculations. When adjusting for where people actually work from, rather than where their jobs are based on paper, the size of London’s economy falls by 1.4 per cent, data from Cebr has revealed. This pushes [...]
What will get London workers back into the office? March 14, 2024 | 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 [...]
Half of UK workers would turn down pay rise to keep working from home March 12, 2024 Just over half of UK workers would forgo a pay rise in order to not work from the office full time, according to a new survey.