Heading back to work? Here’s what you need to know
4 years, 2 months ago

Heading back to work? Here’s what you need to know

Live Mint  

SINCE MARCH, many American professionals have been hunkered down at home, juggling labor and life in new and occasionally exhausting ways. Enough of Zoom—Office Happy Hours Return As the coronavirus has forced many to work from home, it’s also disrupted a fixture of office life—afterwork drinks. While virtual happy hours have helped keep colleagues in touch, many are gingerly trying to get back to traditional socializing and the informal networking that Zoom meetings can’t replace. What to Wear to a Zoom Interview, and Other Style Dilemmas, Solved Men’s work lives have changed in the Covid Era and so has the professional dress code they once adhered to. 6 Electric Options for a Solo Work Commute While many American workers welcome a return to office life, crowded commuter trains and city buses are still scary.

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CEOs: Office returns non-negotiable
1 year, 3 months ago

CEOs: Office returns non-negotiable

BBC  

The CEOs drawing a hard line on return-to-office policies Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among the high-profile leaders taking hard lines on their employees' return to the office Throughout the past couple of years, many employers have been relatively lenient about office returns, even in stricter industries like finance and consulting. "There's been a shift among Fortune 500 …

Returning to the office? You need to be kind to yourself
2 years, 7 months ago

Returning to the office? You need to be kind to yourself

ABC  

After two years of forced choices made for us by the pandemic – returning to work in an office may feel like another removal of agency Whether you're heading back full-time, or transitioning to a hybrid model, there are practical considerations for anyone who has been working from home for years. It can be helpful to simply acknowledge that returning …

Do we even want to return to the office?
3 years, 4 months ago

Do we even want to return to the office?

Live Mint  

Offices of the pre-pandemic era may soon be relics, if employees have their way. A recent survey, Randstad Employer Brand Research 2021, which included 190,000 participants across the world, found that 52% of employees prefer working remotely to going to the office again. According to Microsoft’s first annual Work Trend Index, released last month, 74% of employees in India want …

Many workers don't feel safe returning to office: Trade Union
3 years, 5 months ago

Many workers don't feel safe returning to office: Trade Union

NL Times  

Many people who worked from home during the coronavirus pandemic, do not feel safe returning to their office now that this is possible again, trade union CNV found in a poll of over 900 people who returned to the office after working from home, ANP reports. Many home workers feel unsafe at the office." The trade union also wants clear …

Only 10 percent of home-based workers want to return to office full time: FNV
3 years, 5 months ago

Only 10 percent of home-based workers want to return to office full time: FNV

NL Times  

Only 10 percent of employees want to return to the office full-time after the coronavirus pandemic, a poll by trade union FNV showed. 70% of those surveyed indicated they would prefer to work in a hybrid regime of partly at home and partly at the office in the future. 20 percent of the respondents stated they wouldn’t want to return …

Working In Sweatpants May Be Over As Companies Contemplate The Great Office Return
3 years, 6 months ago

Working In Sweatpants May Be Over As Companies Contemplate The Great Office Return

NPR  

Working In Sweatpants May Be Over As Companies Contemplate The Great Office Return Enlarge this image David McNew/AFP via Getty Images David McNew/AFP via Getty Images On a walk outside his office in downtown Washington, D.C., Greg Meyer stops to peer in through the glass windows of a fast-casual lunch spot called Leon. Meyer's own staff at Brookfield Properties came …

5 Worries People Are Having About Returning To The Office
3 years, 7 months ago

5 Worries People Are Having About Returning To The Office

Huff Post  

If you’re dreading a return to the office, it’s not just you: About 1 in 4 workers currently working from home due to the coronavirus would prefer to stay fully remote, according to a March survey of more than 1,000 U.S. workers. “Some people don’t want to go back to work because, let’s face it, working from home is less …

7 in 10 Urban Indians Are Ready to Get Back to Office Spaces, Reveals News18 Survey
3 years, 11 months ago

7 in 10 Urban Indians Are Ready to Get Back to Office Spaces, Reveals News18 Survey

News 18  

With the pandemic altering almost all aspects of our daily lives, staying safe by working from homes amid a raging virus outbreak is what seemed like the most sensible thing to do. But after a whole year of crazy working hours within the four walls of one’s apartment rather than swanky office spaces, how sensible is it to return to …

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