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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Accountancy
    Remote and offshore work could hurt audit quality, US regulator warns

    Breakdown of traditional apprenticeship model has ramifications on accounting firms’ culture, says PCAOB head

    Erica Williams
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT toughens policy on working in the office

    Telecoms group says ‘three together, two wherever’ hybrid approach will be checked via employee pass card data

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  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Special Report
    Diversity Leaders

    850 companies ranked; Cisco shines despite Big Tech reserve; Rolls-Royce outperforms counterparts on inclusion scale; Erste Bank rises above politics; Diageo takes measure of its market; Ireland notes ‘diversity disparity’; fund management gender lag

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  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    UK employment
    Fathers more likely than mothers to work from home, UK data shows

    Office for National Statistics analysis finds parents more likely to follow hybrid pattern

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  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Future of work
    Out of office and into another

    Companies that encourage and enable staff to work overseas are turning multinational resources into a perk

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  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Working people will pay the price of higher taxes for employers

    Increasing the burden on companies may not affect workers’ payslips today, but it won’t be long

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  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Civil Service UK
    UK civil servants told to work three days a week in the office

    Decision comes after speculation that Labour ministers would allow more homeworking to bolster morale among officials

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  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
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    If you cough, you’re off

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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Gig economy
    Online gig platforms focus on profits as workers return to office

    Fiverr and Upwork rocketed in value during pandemic lockdowns but are now hit with slowing growth

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  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
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    Professionals in the early years of their careers share their tips

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  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
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    Over Work — have our jobs become too greedy for our time?

    Brigid Schulte makes a convincing case for a drastic overhaul of the way we earn a living

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  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
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    The office is not the only solution

    Demands for workers to return full time have a rose tinted view of in-person work

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Amazon says workers need to be in the office. Most of Silicon Valley disagrees.

    Chief executive Andy Jassy brushes off disgruntled staff with tough five-day office mandate

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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Amazon.com
    Amazon orders staff back to office 5 days a week

    Company says in-person presence makes work ‘simpler and more effective’ as it rolls back pandemic-era remote policy

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  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    The weird truth about work is we actually like it

    Satisfied employees are convinced they are lucky exceptions in a world of toxic bosses and burnout

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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    PwC
    PwC tells UK staff it will monitor office attendance

    Big Four firm to send employees monthly working location data as it toughens up on hybrid working policy

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  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Working from home
    London slower to return to office than New York and Paris

    Employers in UK capital should subsidise transport to entice staff back, report on global cities suggests

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  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Employers and the ‘right to disconnect’

    Heavy-handed legislative or one-size-fits-all approaches are not merited

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  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    The most annoying thing about young people at work

    They are very often right, especially when it comes to working hours

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  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Leadership
    Working from beach: will Starbucks’ new remote boss set a trend?

    Brian Niccol’s base in California divides opinion among workplace experts

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  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Working It
    How Gen X mentors help Gen Z staff to thrive

    Younger workers expect career support, and your older staff may be the best people to offer it

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  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Rutherford Hall
    Are you a lifeguard? Well then you can’t work from the beach

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

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  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Management
    ‘Ill-ish’ and the new rules of working when sick

    A summer Covid outbreak has left staff wondering if they should skip work, come in, or do something in between

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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Office life
    ‘Gone are the days of taking a phone call in the open’: why office pods are everywhere

    Adaptable architecture and modular furniture are fine-tuning spaces to workers’ needs

    Samu Hällfors, chief executive of Framery, at the pod maker’s factory in Tampere, Finland
  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Global migration
    Digital nomads bound for south-east Asian sunshine face visa dilemma

    Countries such as Thailand and Indonesia have tried to formalise process but struggle to boost take-up

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