London Staff Want Big Pay Raises Before Returning to Their Desks Full-Time: Survey July 23, 2021 By Eamon Akil Farhat London office workers want an average pay rise equivalent to the cost of some annual railway season tickets to return...
Number of Women on Boards of UK’s Top Financial Firms Rises to 32%: Report July 19, 2021 By Simon Jessop The proportion of women on the board at 200 of Britain’s top financial firms has risen to nearly a third...
Central London Could Lose as Many as 835,000 Jobs to Remote Working: Report June 29, 2021 By Jill Ward Central London could lose as many as 835,000 jobs in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, with employees in service...
EU to Update Workplace Safety Rules, Reflecting Shift to Home Working During COVID June 29, 2021 BRUSSELS – The European Commission plans to update its rules on worker safety to reflect the shift millions employees made...
UK Financial Services Sector Cautions About Legislating Work-from-Home Options June 21, 2021 By Huw Jones and Carolyn Cohn LONDON – How people divide their working hours between home and office should develop naturally over time and not be...
New Post-COVID Hybrid Work Arrangements May Not Be as Flexible as Desired May 17, 2021 By Lucy Meakin Fourteen months after coronavirus confined the world’s office-workers to their homes, companies are embarking on another great experiment — how...
Home Working Likely to Remain – Even After Pandemic Ends: UK Survey April 8, 2021 By Camomile Shumba Home working is likely to remain after the pandemic finishes, according to a survey of 2,000 companies the UK, most...
Grant Thornton Staff in UK Want to Stay Home After Pandemic, in New Blow to the Office April 7, 2021 By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu In a fresh blow to the office, staff at one of the UK’s largest accountancy firms have given strong support...
Diversity Courses Are Wasted Without Data to Track Workforce Composition: Opinion April 6, 2021 By Chris Hughes, Bloomberg Opinion The movement against unconscious bias training, once a key element of employers’ diversity and inclusion strategies, is growing. A controversial...
PwC Announces Hybrid Post-COVID Working Model for UK Staff April 5, 2021 By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu PricewaterhouseCoopers will give UK staff Friday afternoons off this summer and allow them to choose the amount of time they...