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fromAol
14 hours ago
Remote teams

Workers want flexibility. Employers want productivity. Can both coexist?

Business
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Why bosses are demanding more - and what it could cost them

Employers are reducing remote-work flexibility by mandating office attendance and stricter productivity measures, risking employee morale, engagement, and long-term retention.
Remote teams
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Return-to-office mandates are about to backfire

Mandating in-office work risks losing top tech talent as labor-market conditions change, despite unclear productivity gains from returning to the office.
fromAol
14 hours ago
Remote teams

Workers want flexibility. Employers want productivity. Can both coexist?

#biglaw
fromAbove the Law
16 hours ago
Law

Top Biglaw Firm Opts For Three-Day Office Mandate In A Four-Day World - Above the Law

Many major law firms are tightening in-office requirements, with most mandating four days and some, like Arnold & Porter, mandating three days weekly.
fromAbove the Law
2 days ago
Business

New Year's Forecast For This Top 20 Biglaw Firm? Four Days In The Office, Rain Or Shine - Above the Law

Goodwin will require attorneys to work in-office Monday through Thursday starting January 5, 2026, while offering limited flexible accommodations and removing attendance dashboards.
fromAbove the Law
2 days ago
Business

New Year's Forecast For This Top 20 Biglaw Firm? Four Days In The Office, Rain Or Shine - Above the Law

#return-to-office
fromAbove the Law
18 hours ago
Law

Top 50 Biglaw Firm Increases Its Office Attendance Requirement To Four Days - Just For Junior Associates - Above the Law

fromFortune
1 day ago
Real estate

Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z and millionaires alike are flocking back to the city-but return-to-office mandates aren't the main reason | Fortune

Women
fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

Remote work reduced gender discrimination - returning to the office may change that

Return-to-office mandates expose many women to increased everyday gender discrimination, eroding confidence, belonging, job satisfaction and raising risk of leaving organizations.
Business
fromTheStreet
1 week ago

JPMorgan Chase's new office for employees goes viral in a bad way

JPMorgan Chase requires most employees to return to office five days a week, reversing prior hybrid arrangements and prompting employee backlash and a coworker.org petition.
fromAbove the Law
18 hours ago
Law

Top 50 Biglaw Firm Increases Its Office Attendance Requirement To Four Days - Just For Junior Associates - Above the Law

fromFortune
1 day ago
Real estate

Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z and millionaires alike are flocking back to the city-but return-to-office mandates aren't the main reason | Fortune

Women
fromPhys
4 days ago

Remote work reduced gender discrimination. Returning to the office may change that

Returning to in-person work increases everyday gender discrimination for many professional women compared with remote work.
US news
fromFast Company
1 week ago

'The world is changing': Amazon announces 14,000 layoffs ahead of the holidays, cites AI innovation

Amazon will eliminate approximately 14,000 corporate positions to reduce bureaucracy and reallocate resources toward its biggest bets and customer priorities.
Relationships
fromUpworthy
1 week ago

6 ways people cracked the code to master office small talk with coworkers

Office small talk is simple: acknowledge colleagues briefly, be pleasant, keep responses short, and move on.
#hybrid-work
Remote teams
fromSan Antonio Express-News
3 weeks ago

Hybrid work is here to stay. Here's what that means for your RTO plans.

About half of workplaces use hybrid models; hybrid adoption slightly declined while both full-time on-site and fully remote shares rose and in-office time increased.
Remote teams
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Watch out, new hires: Employers are sneaking in a 'hybrid creep' after your offer letter | Fortune

Employers are quietly increasing in-office expectations, causing a slow, stealthy return to more in-person work despite officially unchanged hybrid policies.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago
Remote teams

Watch out, new hires: Employers are sneaking in a 'hybrid creep' after your offer letter | Fortune

Business
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Read the memo Paramount Skydance sent to staffers after laying off 1,000 employees in its first phase of cuts

Paramount Skydance will eliminate about 2,000 jobs total, beginning with roughly 1,000 cuts announced by CEO David Ellison to reach $2 billion in savings.
Remote teams
fromBlack Enterprise
5 days ago

New Report: In-Office Work Carries Steep Price Tag

Returning to the office imposes substantial daily costs—about $55 versus $18 for remote work—which can erode pay, morale, and employee retention.
#hybrid-work-policy
Remodel
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Vintage photos of offices show how the workplace has changed

Office workspaces have transformed dramatically over the past century in technology, layout, amenities, and safety, from typewriters and cubicles to laptops and open atriums.
Toronto
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 weeks ago

TTC bringing Line 2 subway service back to pre-pandemic levels, Toronto mayor says | CBC News

TTC will restore Line 2 weekday subway service to pre-pandemic levels, adding six trains and increasing bus service to accommodate rising office commuter demand.
#google
Tech industry
fromUPI
4 weeks ago

Google imposes further restrictions on remote work - UPI.com

Google tightened its work-from-anywhere policy, counting even one remote day as a full week and limiting remote weeks to four per year.
fromYahoo Finance
4 weeks ago

Ford employees have been told they could be fired if they don't follow the company's RTO mandate

Since announcing the policy, Ford has sent some employees emails telling them that they are not badging in enough and warning that they could face termination if they do not improve their attendance, three current and former Ford employees told Business Insider. Two said they had received these emails despite complying with updated office attendance policies and having previous work-from-home arrangements signed off by their managers.
Remote teams
Business
fromBusiness Insider
4 weeks ago

$9 billion cybersecurity firm Tanium is enforcing its RTO policy by denying employees some equity

Tanium is withholding equity refresh grants from employees who violate the return-to-office policy, potentially reducing compensation, despite leadership not formally announcing the policy link companywide.
Business
fromMiami Herald
1 month ago

Ford investigating vulgar anti-return-to-office conference room display

Vulgar anti–return-to-office imagery of CEO Jim Farley appeared on Ford monitors, prompting an investigation amid rising tensions over enforced in-office work.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

A mom who made $250k juggling two jobs in secret shares how she's avoiding her company's 5-day in-office policy

In 2020, Lisa was earning roughly $110,000 a year in a remote, corporate manufacturing role when she received an offer for a hybrid job that paid about $150,000. After talking it over with her husband, she landed on an unconventional solution: Take the new job - and keep the old one, too. For 18 months, Lisa secretly worked two full-time roles, earning roughly $250,000 in 2021 and averaging 40 to 50 hours a week across both jobs.
Business
Real estate
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Bay Area tech giant dumps 13 buildings near Stanford in huge office deal

Broadcom sold a 13-building, 1.1 million-square-foot Palo Alto office campus acquired with VMware, amid layoffs and enforced return-to-office policies after the 2023 acquisition.
#task-masking
fromMoneywise
1 month ago

Some employers are giving RTO workers the option to take a severance package instead - but there's a major catch. Would you take it anyway?

How a universal severance package works Earlier in September, NBCUniversal notified its U.S. and U.K. employees that come 2026, they must return to the office four days a week - with the option to work remotely on Friday [3]. NBCUniversal employees who don't want to return to the office can take a flat-rate severance package of eight weeks' salary and three months' healthcare coverage.
Careers
fromWUSF
1 month ago

Waiting on the Rays sale, wrestling's Tampa roots and the end of remote work

A new daily talk show, "Florida Matters: Live & Local," has debuted on WUSF 89.7. For more than two decades, "Florida Matters" brought newsmakers and others to your radio for a half-hour each week. Well, now an hour of "Live & Local" will air Monday through Thursday at noon. In addition to interviewing studio guests, host Matthew Peddie will take calls and emails so you can be part of the discussion.
Media industry
Pets
fromStartribune
1 month ago

Opinion | Your pandemic pup doesn't want you to go back to the office, either

Help middle-aged pandemic puppies relearn independence gradually before owners return to long office hours to prevent fear and separation-related behaviors.
fromSpokesman.com
1 month ago

Starbucks' stricter return to office looms amid bitter restructuring

I don't think I've talked to anybody who has had anything positive to say in response to this change of policy,
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
fromThe Globe and Mail
1 month ago

When companies force workers back to the office, working moms are left behind

Mandated return-to-office policies force many working mothers to choose between career advancement and caregiving, prompting resignations and widespread frustration.
US news
fromStartribune
1 month ago

The pandemic transformed the suburbs. Return-to-office mandates could reshape them again.

Minnesota may see a gradual return to urban living as employers mandate office attendance, though many suburban residents plan to remain where they are.
Miscellaneous
fromThe Globe and Mail
1 month ago

Thousands of public servants seek exemptions to Ontario's return-to-office mandate

Thousands of Ontario public servants requested exemptions for remote or hybrid work as the government mandates progressively increased in-office days through 2026.
Toronto
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

'Return to the Stone Age': Ontario public servants rally against Ford's return-to-office order | CBC News

AMAPCEO opposes Ontario government's mandate requiring provincial public servants to increase in-office days to four in October and full-time by January.
Real estate
fromFortune
1 month ago

Opendoor Chairman Keith Rabois says the company doesn't need 1,400 employees, jut 200 | Fortune

Keith Rabois plans major workforce cuts and a return-to-office drive to restore founder-driven culture and improve Opendoor's efficiency amid steep revenue decline.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

An 'overemployed' millennial made $300K secretly working two full-time jobs. Now, RTO and parenthood force a rethink.

After joining the ranks of the " overemployed" in 2021, John, a millennial software engineer based in California, earned as much as $300,000 annually working multiple full-time remote roles. The extra income boosted his earnings to over $300,000 a year, allowing him to grow his savings and splurge on things like a roughly $9,000 honeymoon with his wife. "I figured I'd give it a shot," John told Business Insider in 2023.
Remote teams
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Opendoor chair says the company currently has 1,400 employees but only needs 200 of them

Opendoor, which buys and sells homes, is currently making waves as the latest meme stock beloved by retail traders. The stock got another boost on Thursday when the company announced cofounders Rabois and Eric Wu were rejoining the board and that Kaz Nejatian, COO of Shopify, was appointed CEO. At market close on Friday, the stock was up 470% year-to-date.
Business
#microsoft
fromInc
1 month ago
Business

A Microsoft Leak Claims Employees Are 'Thriving' Under New RTO Rules. Don't Be So Sure

fromInc
1 month ago
Business

A Microsoft Leak Claims Employees Are 'Thriving' Under New RTO Rules. Don't Be So Sure

Privacy technologies
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.'

AT&T is reducing reliance on an inaccurate presence-tracking system that required most employees to log eight on-site hours daily.
Remote teams
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

NBCU Says Return to the Office or Leave: Severance Offer | Entrepreneur

NBCUniversal offers a buyout—eight weeks' pay and three months' benefits—to hybrid employees refusing a four-day-a-week return-to-office.
E-Commerce
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

Klarna Employees Use Emojis to Show RTO Disappointment | Entrepreneur

Klarna debuted on the NYSE at $52 after a $40 IPO valuing it near $15 billion and mandated three in-office days weekly, prompting employee backlash.
Business
fromStartribune
1 month ago

Target employees return to the office with a mix of confusion, dissatisfaction

Target employees report confusion and low morale after a mandatory three-day office return, with about 40% of surveyed workers lacking confidence in the company’s future.
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