There is a risk that we are sleepwalking into drastic societal changes without considering the mental health implications, writes Mark Dawes, while Michael Cunningham is growing sick of the sight of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Global lockdowns triggered a mass homeworking experiment that appears likely to outlast the pandemic itself.
Increasing the numbers of employees working from home could save up to £3bn in energy costs for UK businesses, reducing over three million tonnes of carbon emissions nationwide. That’s according to a ...
Despite growing pressure from the UK government and leading media outlets for a mass return to the office as Covid recedes, most UK workers who took up homeworking because of the pandemic plan to ...
In her cautionary words about the benefits of working from home (“It’s time to admit that hybrid is not working”, Opinion, FT Weekend, FT.com, January 8) Camilla Cavendish misses one important point.
Regular homeworking by UK workers has tripled since before the pandemic, rising from 6.8% in 2019, and 12.1% in 2020, to 22.4% in 2021. Growth in homeworking and future trends The TUC says that the ...
Everyone knows the modern hybrid workplace represents a large change to the working conditions that existed before the pandemic, but a report from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has ...