After the initial surge in support from the business community, working from home has once again been put up for debate. Leading CEO’s have wavered in their previous commitment to remote working, with Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group axing ‘Frasers Friday’ – a working from home day for some staff – due to a perceived lack… Continue reading Business Community: Where Does Working from Home Fit?
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Home Working: Third of UK Office Staff Work from Home
Home working more than doubled in the UK when comparing 2019 to 2022, a statistic highlighting the seismic shift in the national workforce. With Covid leaving a lasting legacy in terms of where companies feel their staff work best, the amount of businesses switching to a home-based workforce (as opposed to an office) has leapt… Continue reading Home Working: Third of UK Office Staff Work from Home
Home Working Returns: Staying Well While Working From Home
Another mass migration to remote working is expected on Monday as home working returns. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the re-introduction of heading back to homes to carry out the work day wherever possible as part of Plan B, a series of restrictions designed to limit the amount of contacts an employee has with others… Continue reading Home Working Returns: Staying Well While Working From Home
Surging Omicron Cases Could Lead to Working from Home Return
Surging Omicron cases could result in a new working from home order, according to one of the country’s leading health officials. Dr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency, has urged Christmas festivities to be toned down with socialising restricted only to those necessary interactions. As part of this warning, she suggested… Continue reading Surging Omicron Cases Could Lead to Working from Home Return
Return to Working From Home A Possibility
A return to working from home is being mooted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as attention turns to a potentially bumpy journey through Autumn and Winter. With Covid-19 hospitalisations rising steadily at present, scientific modelling – which provides a range of scenarios – has suggested, as a worst-case scenario, that there may be as many… Continue reading Return to Working From Home A Possibility
Flexible Working is Here to Stay – Business Secretary
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng believes flexible working is ‘here to stay’ with the changing of approach to self-isolation on the horizon. As of 16th August, those who have had both jabs of the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer need to isolate for 10 days should they be deemed as a close contact. That has encouraged… Continue reading Flexible Working is Here to Stay – Business Secretary
Covid Restrictions: PHE Official Calls for More Working From Home
A top Public Health England official has called for people to continue working from home past 19th July, when the majority of Covid restrictions are set to end. The Government announced that working from home, wherever possible, will no longer be required, while encouraging employees to return to offices safely. However, Dr Susan Hopkins, a… Continue reading Covid Restrictions: PHE Official Calls for More Working From Home
Price Comparison: What do You Save Most on When Working From Home?
Working from home can save you 111% on your spending compared with being in the office, according to a recent study which conducted a price comparison. The research looked into the average cost of expenses associated with working in the office, including the commute and lunchtime purchases, while also factoring in the costs linked to… Continue reading Price Comparison: What do You Save Most on When Working From Home?
Office Workers: Some Companies Set to Defy PM’s Call to Return
Many companies are set to defy Boris Johnson’s rallying call for office workers to return after June 21st. The Prime Minister is keen to see normality return, with a mini-industry reliant on office workers in and around the workplace. Cafes, coffee shops and sandwich shops tend to rely on the rush hour and lunchtime rushes… Continue reading Office Workers: Some Companies Set to Defy PM’s Call to Return
Anxieties For Those Returning to the Office
In just over two months, the UK lockdown roadmap sees the end of home-working on 21st June. But workers are set to return with a number of anxieties which may make them reluctant to do so. A recently published article, discussing the results of a poll of 1,000 employees, found the top reasons to avoid… Continue reading Anxieties For Those Returning to the Office
Working From Home Uniform: What do you Wear?
While working from home, millions of people have stretched the home-work boundaries a little, including in what their working from home uniform looks like! A recent study found almost a third of respondents had worn pyjamas during virtual work meetings, making for a very different working from home uniform to the one adopted in the… Continue reading Working From Home Uniform: What do you Wear?
Outside Home-Working: Beware the pitfalls
New research has found that four in 10 plan to move their workstation outside when remote working, despite the potential problems of outside home-working. The study, conducted by Lenovo, found that 43% were going to conduct their work day outside so they could soak up some sun in the process. Taking advantage of the warmer… Continue reading Outside Home-Working: Beware the pitfalls
Benefits of Stretching: Three Reasons to Keep Moving
Working from home can, unknowingly, shackle you to your desk for far longer than you’d like as a home-working employee; the benefits of stretching could break this cycle. The thought of sitting in a chair and facing a computer screen for eight hours can make people wince just at the thought of it. But by… Continue reading Benefits of Stretching: Three Reasons to Keep Moving
Employee Productivity: What’s Hampering Home Workers?
There’s a long list of things hampering employee productivity as the working from home movement looks set to stay. With the Government encouraging those who can to continue remote working until April 2021, a recent survey by 8×8 uncovered some of the causes of disruption to a home-working day. The most popular answers, in terms… Continue reading Employee Productivity: What’s Hampering Home Workers?
Home Working: Survey Shows Most Common Naughty Habits
Working in pyjamas, fibbing about a faulty internet connection or even falling asleep during work hours are just some of the confessions of working from home employees in a recent survey. The poll, commissioned by Tesco, found that each home worker, on average, committed seven misdemeanours of this sort. Nearly one in five (19%) admitted… Continue reading Home Working: Survey Shows Most Common Naughty Habits