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...
Aon Takes a Holiday March 30, 2021 Aon announced it is closing operations and taking a global holiday on April 1st and April 2nd. These two days...
Gender Pay Gap in Australia Is Worst in Insurance and Finance Industries: Study March 26, 2021 By Rebecca Jones Australia is losing momentum in efforts to bring equality to the workforce, with a new study finding that it will...
Insurance Industry Groups Join Forces to Help UK Career-Break Women Return to Work March 16, 2021 Nine leading insurance industry businesses announced the creation of a program in the UK that will enable “career-break” professionals to...