While many employees relish the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in person, for some, this cheery attitude belies underlying fears about returning to the office.
Employers anxious about optimizing productivity levels, are turning to monitoring software to keep tabs on staff. But it’s a slippery slope.
Credit Karma’s chief people, places and publicity officer Colleen McCreary on why the company requires employees to work in the office–at least some of the time.
Employees may be demanding flexibility, but it doesn’t mean their employers are legally required to provide it. Lawyers say this is causing a “flexidus” of women quitting.
From the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, many companies have been inundated with passionate employee-led responses to aid those caught in the crossfire. Here is how companies like PepsiCo have responded.
A remote-first, flexible working operating model has enabled Vista to snag top talent from major brands like Nike, Spotify, Converse and Netflix in the last year.
College career centers report an increase in hiring, as employers look to graduates to plug the shortages caused by the mass job-switching trend.
Gen Z have missed out on learning from seasoned professionals by osmosis since their internships were remote. Here’s how employers are addressing it.
Even with tools like Zoom, Slack and Google Meet, working together while being apart is clunky. Here’s a look at technology being used to foster collaboration between employees at home and in the office.
With most organizations figuring out flexible and hybrid working models, their employees are the most critical stakeholders. For this reason, to gauge their sentiments, companies are turning to employee experience platforms. But WTF are they?
Who can say they’ve nailed their hybrid working strategy with a straight face? Here are seven of the biggest hybrid working challenges and what can fix them.
CEO John Visgilio understood that when it came to his own company, he needed to create not just another office space but a real “home” for his employees.
Many employers have adopted technology that tracks how staff are using office space. That data then inform decisions around future real estate investments, workspace configurations and what tech to use.
Pandemic pet owners are now scrambling with how to keep their dogs with them when they return to the office. But many find having pets at work with them more stressful than not.
Some individuals say their partner’s remote work habits impacted their relationship so much that they’ve even considered a breakup or divorce.
Never has the role of head of culture been as vital as it is in these times of remote and hybrid work.
While people’s mental health has suffered in general over the past two years, the return to office is adding some new stressors to the mix.
Kiss-ups, micromanagers, credit stealers, bulldozers, free riders, gaslighters and neglectful bosses: here are the 7 types of jerks at work that can make a workplace toxic.
The masses of business leaders taking to social media with their mental health journeys are forgetting one thing – that they have the money and kudos to undergo therapy. That’s why employers must democratize therapy to make it accessible for people at all levels.
Managers are increasingly being trained to develop new hires’ soft business skills like empathy, curiosity and adaptability. Here are some best practices.
The nomadic CEO is a trend that is seriously global. WorkLife spoke to a range of remote CEOs about what inspired this change in lifestyle and how they run their businesses remotely.
To get to the nub of true flexibility, we need to reframe the question not around where employees are, but what work they need to do, and then figure out how, when and where they can do that best.
The gender pay gap takes up a huge amount of media spotlight compared with the equally problematic gender pension gap – an unfortunate, yet logical, by-product of an institutionalized issue.
The pandemic’s effect on women workers has shown that our support systems — from paid parental leave to work cultures — need improving.
Why is sexual harassment in the workplace still so prevalent? Studies suggest the last two years of remote working have only increased the number of cases.