Op-Ed: Work life will never be the same. We need some in-person days and some remote
2 years, 10 months ago

Op-Ed: Work life will never be the same. We need some in-person days and some remote

LA Times  

Working from home surged twelvefold between 2017-2018 and May 2020. Surveys of 50,000 workers across the country find they want to work from home 2.5 days a week on average after the pandemic. Employees working from home frequently tell me how they enjoy the freedom of being able to go to the gym or see the dentist during a week day, making up the work time in the evenings or on weekends. The survey data show that people of color and highly educated women with young children place especially high value on the ability to work from home at least part of the week. Some data from Europe and North America showed that when people shifted to remote work during the pandemic, they ended up putting in longer hours — not great news for work-life balance, to be sure, but a development that many employers would cheer.

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Remote work is giving way to remote life, and it is not leaving us better off.
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Remote work is giving way to remote life, and it is not leaving us better off.

Slate  

For a decade, my therapy appointments required a 30-minute train ride to a mid-rise medical office building in suburban Philadelphia, where I reclined on a black leather couch, grabbing the occasional Kleenex. “Americans have just not bounced back post-COVID.” Since 2020, many companies, such as DoorDash and Hulu, have capitalized on people’s tendency to spend more and more time at …

Remote staff sleep longer and work less, says ONS
1 month, 1 week ago

Remote staff sleep longer and work less, says ONS

The Telegraph  

People who work from home sleep more and work less than those going into the office, official analysis has revealed. Remote workers get an extra 24 minutes of rest and 15 minutes of exercise every day, but work for 10 minutes less on average compared to those who travel to their workplaces, according to the Office for National Statistics. Managers …

Opinion: Does working from home make you lonely? Here’s one fix that won’t have you returning to the office
9 months ago

Opinion: Does working from home make you lonely? Here’s one fix that won’t have you returning to the office

LA Times  

Opening one’s door to guests, whether for extra income or simply to invite interesting experiences with strangers and friends, is one way to avoid loneliness. I dreaded guests’ departures and would long for another person who lived what I thought of as a daring life to interrupt my seemingly normal one. One prescription for this modern epidemic is opening one’s …

What working from home is really doing to your health
10 months, 1 week ago

What working from home is really doing to your health

The Independent  

Few knew pre-pandemic what the consequences of remote working would be for our minds and bodies. “For some people, working at home was a good thing,” says Neil Greenberg, professor of defence mental health and occupational and forensic psychiatry at King’s College London. That’s dangerously sedentary behaviour.” It’s not hard to see where this is going – weight gain was …

New incentives could boost satisfaction with in-person work, but few employers are making changes
1 year ago

New incentives could boost satisfaction with in-person work, but few employers are making changes

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Justin Ryan Horton has two jobs. About 3 in 4 human resources representatives say that retaining employees who don’t want to work in the office is a problem — including 19% who call it a “major problem.” Another 54% of HR representatives call it a minor problem. There are some initiatives that could incentivize more employees to …

5 Ways to Work Remotely (and Effectively) for the Long Haul
1 year, 2 months ago

5 Ways to Work Remotely (and Effectively) for the Long Haul

Wired  

Covid-19 made remote work a reality for a lot of people, but for me, it was business as usual. Have a Designated Work Space That Is Not Where You Sleep There’s an old saying that beds should be used for just two things. I don’t necessarily recommend that—it didn’t do great things for my back—but it maintained the needed distance …

US Workers Want 4-Day WorkWeeks But Only With The Choice To Work Remotely: Survey
1 year, 4 months ago

US Workers Want 4-Day WorkWeeks But Only With The Choice To Work Remotely: Survey

ABP News  

Workers and bosses in the US are not apprehensive about a four-day workweek, a survey claims. The survey states about 87 per cent of respondents expressed interest in a four-day workweek, while 82 per cent of the respondents agreed that widespread adoption of the same across the US will be successful. About 75 per cent of respondents noted that they …

Remote work gave them a reprieve from racism. They don’t want to go back
1 year, 4 months ago

Remote work gave them a reprieve from racism. They don’t want to go back

LA Times  

As LeRon Barton weighed his options, he realized what he had to do. “And just the quality of life has improved drastically.” It’s a sentiment expressed by many Black workers and other people of color who found that remote work lessened the racism they faced on the job. With remote work, the data confirm whether workers are getting their jobs …

Employers’ push to end remote work and return to office is stalling
1 year, 4 months ago

Employers’ push to end remote work and return to office is stalling

LA Times  

Coming out of the pandemic, Bart Valdez has had the mind-set of many traditional bosses. Today a third of Ingenovis’ employees are back in the office, one-third work entirely from home, and one-third do a hybrid mix of remote and in-person work. Even as more corporations are moving to call workers back to the office, arguing it’s better for preserving …

Working from home becomes a once-a-week perk for some office goers
1 year, 6 months ago

Working from home becomes a once-a-week perk for some office goers

LA Times  

The entrance to Walt Disney Co. headquarters is seen from West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. It’s a form of RTO creep, as companies test what has emerged as the post-pandemic norm of two to three days in the office and fan the debate over remote work. BlackRock has said employees must be in the office four days a week starting …

The open questions of hybrid working
1 year, 7 months ago

The open questions of hybrid working

Hindustan Times  

At first, the question was how quickly people would get back to the office. Hybrid working has much to recommend it: flexibility for employees, periods of concentration at home, bursts of co-operation in the office. A new paper from Raj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Kyle Schirmann of Harvard Business School and Christos Makridis of Columbia Business School describes an experiment …

The latest on hybrid work: Who is WFH and who isn’t
1 year, 8 months ago

The latest on hybrid work: Who is WFH and who isn’t

CNN  

New York CNN — As the economy slows, are employers starting to regain the upper hand in negotiations with employees and job seekers? The BLS survey also interpreted respondents’ answers as referring to a company’s formal telework policies, not whether some employees informally work remotely on occasion, such as responding to work emails from home. What others have found Stanford …

Why bosses are rolling back remote work
1 year, 10 months ago

Why bosses are rolling back remote work

BBC  

The companies backtracking on flexible work Getty Images Amid looming economic instability and widespread layoffs, bosses are ordering their workers back to the office. “However, they were unable to enforce that during the peak of the pandemic hiring boom: the competition for talent meant if you made your employees come back to the office, they’d call your rival and take …

We learnt in 2022 that hybrid work is here to stay for certain
1 year, 11 months ago

We learnt in 2022 that hybrid work is here to stay for certain

Live Mint  

This was supposed to be the year of returning to offices. The exceptions are people who have “30-plus years of work experience and have been successful and have done that all in person… but they are real outliers.” Instead, most bosses are becoming comfortable with managing and evaluating employees they don’t see every day—and not with creepy surveillance tools. In …

What will the workplace look like in 2023?
2 years ago

What will the workplace look like in 2023?

Live Mint  

2022 has been a year of people finally stepping out of their homes in full force. “The hybrid workplace is the future of work, taking advantage of evolving HR technologies to become more flexible, agile and productive,” says Gurugram-based Abhijeet Dhar, director sales, CNN International Commercial. “These businesses take responsibility for providing equal chances to everyone while recognizing distinctions and …

Op-Ed: How working remotely can bring workers closer together
2 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: How working remotely can bring workers closer together

LA Times  

Remote working necessitated by the pandemic can help guide organizations toward making work better, regardless of where the work gets done. What undermines our personal interactions isn’t whether they’re in-person or remote, it’s whether we pay attention to one another. In contrast, workers I interviewed recalled that their in-office interactions felt less human, because those connections, for the most part, …

Is hybrid work killing remote summer? Yes, but it doesn’t have to
2 years, 4 months ago

Is hybrid work killing remote summer? Yes, but it doesn’t have to

Live Mint  

Employees at New York City-based Conductor, a marketing-software startup, are required to come into the office three days a week. The company has said it wants the majority of people to be able to easily travel to the office for a meeting on a day’s notice, but it’s still reserving four weeks of remote work for almost all corporate employees. …

The companies doubling down on remote work
2 years, 5 months ago

The companies doubling down on remote work

BBC  

The companies doubling down on remote work Getty Images Some CEOs are permanently shutting office space to give up on hybrid set-ups and fully embrace working from home. “I would think that it's non-reversible workers won't want to go back into the office.” For companies with the flexibility to take such a dramatic decision, the option is becoming increasingly appealing …

Work from Home to Continue in India? Survey Finds 73% Office Occupiers Want Hybrid Model
2 years, 5 months ago

Work from Home to Continue in India? Survey Finds 73% Office Occupiers Want Hybrid Model

News 18  

The days of remote working for all days of the work week may be over for employees in India as organisations are looking to shift to the hybrid model, a survey has indicated. Ltd, that 73 per cent of office space occupiers in India are evaluating hybrid working arrangements going forward instead of granting work from home to its employees …

Hybrid work model catching on in India
2 years, 6 months ago

Hybrid work model catching on in India

The Hindu  

With the world seemingly getting back to normal after the severe disruptions caused by the pandemic, most businesses are now asking their employees to get back to office, albeit with some offering flexibility of a hybrid working model. Consequently, businesses small to big are proactively looking to change their work environment and make it more flexible and resilient,” Harsh Lambah, …

Is remote work worse for wellbeing than people think?
2 years, 6 months ago

Is remote work worse for wellbeing than people think?

BBC  

Is remote work worse for wellbeing than people think? But new research into remote work and wellbeing has shown mixed results – in Microsoft’s 2022 New Future of Work Report, researchers found that although remote work can improve job satisfaction, it can also lead to employees feeling “socially isolated, guilty and trying to overcompensate”. Getty Images Many people can feel …

How to lead effectively in the hybrid work format
2 years, 6 months ago

How to lead effectively in the hybrid work format

The Hindu  

The consanguineous companion of the fully-remote model, the hybrid work model is the fair-haired one, more favoured as it splices the best of two worlds: working inside and outside the office environment. With the tech industry still largely operating remotely, the hybrid work life still remains only partially unwrapped, and largely “un-lived”. Creating a level-playing field Leaders should maintain an …

Op-Ed: Of course many people of color prefer remote work. It helps dodge office weirdness
2 years, 8 months ago

Op-Ed: Of course many people of color prefer remote work. It helps dodge office weirdness

LA Times  

A November survey of knowledge workers found that 86% of Latino workers and 81% of Asian/Asian American and Black workers would prefer a hybrid or fully remote arrangement, compared with 75% of their white counterparts. “People,” who, in a November survey of 10,737 knowledge workers conducted by the workplace research consortium Future Forum, indicated they preferred remote work over office …

TCS Work From Home to End? IT Giant Shifts to Hybrid Model of Work; Check Details Here
2 years, 8 months ago

TCS Work From Home to End? IT Giant Shifts to Hybrid Model of Work; Check Details Here

News 18  

The idea of ‘normal’ has changed after three waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, with its impact being felt on all walks of life. But as the ‘new normal’ has it, IT employees might not have to go back to their offices for all five days, with many organisations including TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL Technologies, mulling over the idea of …

New offices for the hybrid era? Many companies are on board
2 years, 9 months ago

New offices for the hybrid era? Many companies are on board

Associated Press  

— If you build a shiny new office building, will your employees show up to work in it? Another survey done last year by CBRE Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, showed that 87% of large companies planned to use a hybrid schedule after the pandemic, with workers in the office part of the time. …

Remote working new normal; 82% employees prefer working from home: Study
2 years, 10 months ago

Remote working new normal; 82% employees prefer working from home: Study

The Hindu  

With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing unprecedented changes in work life, a study has revealed that 82% respondents admitted that they prefer working from home to going back to the office. The remote work trend was initially forced on employees due to the pandemic, however, after two years remote working has become a new normal and as things settled down new …

Work goes flexi; so does the workspace
3 years ago

Work goes flexi; so does the workspace

The Hindu  

A report by the Confederation of Indian Industry and ANAROCK Group — “Workplaces of the Future” — underlines that the flexibility built into hybrid work models will be mirrored sharply in not only how work is done, but also where it is done. Flexible work spaces — better known as coworking spaces — seems to be high up the order …

The future of work is hybrid – here’s an expert’s recommendations for success
3 years, 1 month ago

The future of work is hybrid – here’s an expert’s recommendations for success

Salon  

COVID-19 has changed the way we work. One thing stands out: Hybrid work arrangements – that is, employees who do some tasks in the office and others virtually – is clearly going to be a big part of the picture. One survey from April 2021 shows 99% of human resources leaders expect employees to work in some kind of hybrid …

‘You Are Mommy Tracked to the Billionth Degree’
3 years, 1 month ago

‘You Are Mommy Tracked to the Billionth Degree’

Politico  

While no one can be sure what workplaces will look like once we’re far removed from the pandemic — whenever that will be — the way we work will likely be altered in the long run. “They’ll expect the committed workers to come back, too.” “ It can be hard to tell if you are being treated differently than others, …

We’re not abusing remote working – it’s a lifeline for carers like me
3 years, 2 months ago

We’re not abusing remote working – it’s a lifeline for carers like me

The Independent  

This week, remote working has again been in the spotlight after city bosses declared it unproductive. I have to carefully consider every job opportunity based on what I am able to juggle, not what I’m capable of doing or where it may take my career, until the shift to working from home. The switch to remote and hybrid working means …

Dropbox billionaire predicts 40-hour workweek will become a ‘thing of the past’
3 years, 2 months ago

Dropbox billionaire predicts 40-hour workweek will become a ‘thing of the past’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Research commissioned this summer by IWG plc surveyed 1,000 …

How companies around the world are shifting the way they work
3 years, 3 months ago

How companies around the world are shifting the way they work

BBC  

How companies around the world are shifting the way they work Getty Images Companies are trying to work out the best post-pandemic working model. “The more traditional model of having an HQ and a manager who works in the same office as employees and having set hours and a lot of meetings just isn’t the most efficient model for most …

What bosses really think about remote work
3 years, 3 months ago

What bosses really think about remote work

BBC  

What bosses really think about remote work Getty Images Many managers are itching to get staff back to the office, despite employees championing alternative set-ups. “They start saying, ‘OK, now, you took the second vaccine, you need to be at the office’.” All this is fuelling debates about why exactly bosses are turning their backs on remote setups faster than …

Why remote work is a big problem for the economy
3 years, 4 months ago

Why remote work is a big problem for the economy

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Americans are trickling back to their pre-pandemic workplaces, but most offices are still largely empty. The Metropolitan Transit Authority received nearly $4 billion in government funding through the CARES Act, but fare and toll revenues aren’t expected to come back to their previous levels until 2023, according to a report from the Office of the …

Why younger workers want hybrid work most
3 years, 4 months ago

Why younger workers want hybrid work most

BBC  

Why younger workers want hybrid work most Getty Images Some workers are calling for full-time remote work situations. “It's one thing for more senior people, who already have their networks within the office, and their professional networks, and their suburban house with an office to work from, but it’s something entirely different when you're just starting out.” An opportunity for …

Explainer: As employees, organisations pivot to hybrid work for post-pandemic future, what the model entails for workplaces
3 years, 6 months ago

Explainer: As employees, organisations pivot to hybrid work for post-pandemic future, what the model entails for workplaces

Firstpost  

With the ushering of hybrid workspaces, both companies and their employees are gearing up for a change — an unprecedented step towards businesses that are largely digital, remote support and delivery models, real-time results with minimal delay and also an improved workplace diversity. I call it a ’third place,’ you may want to call it a satellite office.” With the …

The workers pushing back on the return to the office
3 years, 6 months ago

The workers pushing back on the return to the office

BBC  

The workers pushing back on the return to the office Getty Images Some companies want staff back in the office for more time than employees had anticipated. Apple’s pre-pandemic policies discouraged remote work, but post-Covid-19, employees are challenging what they called “a disconnect between how the executive team thinks about remote/location-flexible work and the lived experiences of many of Apple’s …

Less office space, more video screens: How one company is embracing hybrid work
3 years, 7 months ago

Less office space, more video screens: How one company is embracing hybrid work

LA Times  

A paper sheet is taped atop a television screen at Clorox Co.’s newly redesigned headquarters. “Everybody wants to know how many days they’ll work on site and how many at home,” Marriner said. “We’ll use July to December as an extended transition period,” Marriner said, and use data and direct experience to begin to make decisions on new work arrangements. …

Here's how working from home makes you more productive
3 years, 8 months ago

Here's how working from home makes you more productive

Hindustan Times  

The great work-from-home experiment occasioned by the pandemic has divided opinion in the corporate suite and sparked endless debates about whether employees work as effectively from the kitchen table as they do from the office. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Solomon has called the new arrangements “an aberration” that the investment bank will “correct as quickly as …

Some workers can’t wait to get back to the office
3 years, 8 months ago

Some workers can’t wait to get back to the office

CNN  

While some employees are enjoying the flexibility of working from home, Janell Longa can’t wait to return to the office. “I am really keen to get back to the office,” said Sarah Williams, associate director of the Business School, University of Wolverhampton, UK, who’s been working from home for more than a year. “For me, that blurring of the lines …

Tech giants who made remote working possible now turn their backs on it
3 years, 8 months ago

Tech giants who made remote working possible now turn their backs on it

The Telegraph  

A return to work will feel like returning to school after an extended summer holiday for younger employees. “I just started enjoying WFH, but they want us back now,” says one anonymous Amazon worker. “When we all get called back into the office in summer, people working remotely will end up getting sidelined,” wrote a Facebook worker. “But it really …

One year of Covid-19 pandemic: Companies fighting complexities of hybrid workspace
3 years, 8 months ago

One year of Covid-19 pandemic: Companies fighting complexities of hybrid workspace

India Today  

A year after the first Covid-19 case was reported, it is obvious that the pandemic’s impact on the future of work and workplaces is here to stay. With working remotely it has become even more important for employees to stay connected by attending virtual gatherings, maintaining a high level of enthusiasm, and highlight professional accomplishments. Remote work makes cybersecurity vital …

Working from home isn’t working, at least for the young
3 years, 9 months ago

Working from home isn’t working, at least for the young

The Independent  

Goldman Sachs has come under attack for the pressures put on junior members of staff. But the most interesting point he made – one that affects people far beyond the lofty heights of New York investment banking – was this: “In this world of remote work, it feels like we have to be connected 24/7.” If your office is your …

The bosses who want us back at work
3 years, 9 months ago

The bosses who want us back at work

BBC  

The bosses who want us back in the office Alamy We assume remote work is here to stay – but some of the loudest voices in the corporate world are rallying to get employees back in offices. “It’s an aberration that we are going to correct as quickly as possible.” Jes Staley, chief executive of Barclays, voiced similar sentiments in …

A proposed bill of rights for the remote worker
3 years, 9 months ago

A proposed bill of rights for the remote worker

Live Mint  

The past year has seen millions of employees transition to remote work—often under pretty rotten conditions. There is, unfortunately, no work-from-home equivalent of a Miranda warning: a list of the rights employees can expect as remote workers to ensure their fair treatment in the new workplace. It’s the duty of your employer to provide you with the infrastructure you need …

Pursuing the American dream with ‘WFA’
3 years, 9 months ago

Pursuing the American dream with ‘WFA’

The Hindu  

For companies and workers facing woes dealing with United States immigration, there is good news and a practical solution. In recent research with coauthors Dany Bahar and Britta Glennon, we find that U.S. President Donald Trump’s June 2020 Executive Order limiting entry of migrants to the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic led to an estimated loss of around $100 billion …

How the pandemic will redefine work in 2021
3 years, 11 months ago

How the pandemic will redefine work in 2021

Live Mint  

Let’s face it, our pre-covid work life is not coming back anytime soon. Work from home is here to stay Even though many companies are planning to reopen offices next year, entry will be staggered. Human resource experts believe organisations will look at a hybrid work model, with people going in to offices largely for meetings or brainstorming sessions. Remote …

‘Work from anywhere’ is here to stay. How will it change our workplaces?
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Work from anywhere’ is here to stay. How will it change our workplaces?

LA Times  

After decades of being tied to offices, Americans are suddenly free to work from wherever they want thanks to pandemic lockdowns. “When and if our employees come back will be theirs.” “We’ve told everyone: If you’re not comfortable, no problem, stay put,” said Rich Lang, senior vice president of human resources at VMware. That same year, Patrick Pichette, who was …

Why the future of work might be ‘hybrid’
4 years, 4 months ago

Why the future of work might be ‘hybrid’

BBC  

Why the future of work might be ‘hybrid’ Alamy Companies are looking to the post-Covid future. And what many are converging on amid the ongoing uncertainty, says Marco Minervini, an organisational design researcher at business school INSEAD in Singapore, is different models of hybrid working: combining remote work with office work. Alamy Under a hybrid model, a head office could …

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