"covid-19" news, interviews, and features

News about covid-19

• Why open-plan offices are a disaster for businesses

  The best thing employers can do for happy, loyal, and productive staff is to let them work when and where they want — the worst ...

• Why workforce management faces a daunting post-COVID world

  Before the pandemic, workforce and human capital management software and services were mainly used to track employee attendance and work. But with a more hybrid ...

• After the shift to remote work, new hope for a four-day work week

  The five-day, 40-hour work week has been the standard for more than 100 years. But the shifts brought about since 2020 by the pandemic are ...

• JLL exec sees no return to pre-COVID work routines, but a 4-day work week

  Global real estate investment and management firm says new views on flexible work and a re-evaluation of what employees want will reshape commercial real estate ...

• In a hybrid world, office downsizings are coming

  Companies that have embraced the hybrid workplace are looking for less office space and more flexible facilities to accommodate the variable number of employees who ...

• As companies unfurl future-of-work plans, speed bumps remain

  As organisations grapple with office re-openings, deciding which way to turn -- the old in-office routine or the new hybrid workplace model -- could mean ...