Remote teams

Remote teams

On the same day last week that Kyndryl told staff they were at risk of redundancy, a pulse survey landed on the desks of the entire workforce. The short questionnaire is used by organizations to measure sentiment toward the business, typically comprising one to 20 questions and sent weekly, monthly, or quarterly. It's a process that is commonplace across the world of work.

A Metropolitan Police officer moved three hours away from his base, then sued the force for discrimination after being denied the right to work from home. PC Paul Heard relocated from South London to Suffolk, leading to a six-hour daily round trip commute to his Met Police base in Croydon. He complained to an employment tribunal that the journey was "exhausting", claiming that it was "fatiguing" and impacted his physical and mental health.

Choi Seung-ho walked into the National Labor Relations Commission building in Sejong on Monday morning, about 110 km south of Seoul, and told reporters he would 'participate in this second round in good faith'. The head of Samsung Electronics' largest union, on Friday's evidence, had been preparing to talk to the company on 7 June, three days after his members ended an 18-day strike. By Monday, the calendar had shifted forward by three weeks, and the picket-line clock had moved to three days.