Agile Working

Bristol’s office market has seen a 15 per cent drop in office space transacted to date in 2021, according to a study by JLL.

Managers in the increasingly digital, knowledge-fuelled and hybrid working environment may not be able to see the “invisible” strains on workers juggling home life and their workloads, concludes a report by Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA).

IWFM Conference 2021 Report: Baroness Camilla Cavendish on adapting to hybrid

The shift to firm-wide remote work caused business groups within Microsoft “to become less interconnected”, according to research by the technology firm.

ITV’s Manhattan Project

The government’s flexible working plans have been welcomed by industry yet some say employers could have been encouraged to offer more flexible working opportunities.

The government has published a consultation document that aims to give British workers more choice over when and where they work.

British workers’ desire for flexible working is “irrefutable”, according to a workplace expert.

The shift towards homeworking seen during the Covid-19 pandemic could help enable older workers to remain in the labour market for longer, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Two-thirds (68 per cent) of British firms are contemplating pay cuts for staff who opt to work from home, despite many (53 per cent) saying they’ve actually saved money by having more remote workers, according to HR software provider CIPHR.

Sixty-eight per cent of organisations will be instituting hybrid working models globally, according to research from workplace experts Steelcase.

BonCulina UK has launched its latest food concept, BonCulina Anywhere – an online home-delivery food platform aimed at staff working from home or adopting hybrid working.