Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of young people are starting out in the workplace for the first time in isolation and with little to no onboarding assistance. That must change.
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Research and surveys show that many Canadian employees want to continue to work from home, at least sometimes, following the pandemic. But what do CEOs think?
The pandemic has driven Australian workers and their employers to embrace the option of working remotely. And that has opened people’s eyes to the possibilities of living in regional Australia.
The need for much-improved internet connectivity exists across Canada. Will the Ontario government’s recent announcement of $1 billion and the federal government’s announcement of the Universal Broadband Fund of $1.75 billion for improved broadband be enough to make a difference?
Hull-office? Working from Stoke? How the pandemic could turn around decades of decline.
The COVID-19 crisis is transforming work and how it is done, not just in universities. If managers think that they unilaterally know how to manage remote work, disorder could become chaos.
CBD retailers were already struggling before the pandemic. The contrast in fortunes with suburban retail activity is stark, and there are good reasons to think the shift could be permanent.
Existing employee assessment and compensation structures are not suited to the reality of remote work. It’s time to change that.
Coronavirus has changed population projections and behaviours across society. With fewer commuters we need to shift transport planning based on a hub-and-spoke network to focus on more local travel.
If you can work from home you’re less likely to take a sick day, and that could be a problem.
For as long as there has been remote working, companies have sought ways to replicate the serendipitous conversations we have in a physical work space.
Smaller countries have been competing for tourists for years. New remote work visas suggest they are now competing for citizens.
A conservative estimate of the productivity gains from working from home suggests they’re bigger than all of the reforms of the 1990s combined.
Most people who worked at home during lockdown want to continue doing so in some respect according to one recent survey.
We asked 1,400 managers to rate working from home. Some 8.4% said their teams were less productive, 57% said it was the same, and 34% said it was higher.
Fewer weekly commutes means many will be willing to commute further. The effects on urban growth of working from home pose serious challenges.
Enforced working from home during the pandemic levelled the playing field between remote and office-based workers.
Employers have long feared that working from home makes employees less productive. An analysis of 3 million workers in 16 cities during lockdowns suggests the opposite.
Don’t think you’re alone when working from home - the typical office desk has more than 10 million bacteria. Here’s how to stop your WFH setup leaving you needing sick leave.
Not everyone has a job they can do from home. Mapping the patterns of occupations across Melbourne’s suburbs against COVID-19 cases strongly suggests why some parts of the city are more vulnerable.
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Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton
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PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UCL
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Management Professor, McGill University
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Senior Lecturer, Organisational Behaviour & Management, Adelaide University
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Professor of Management, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Ethics and Labour Relations, University of Regina
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Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organisational Design, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant professor in leadership, IÉSEG School of Management
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Senior Lecturer, Employment Relations, Griffith University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor in Social & Health Psychology, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Muscle Physiology, Karolinska Institutet
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Associate Professor HRM/IR, CQUniversity Australia