flexible working

Amazon Boss Denies Return To Office Mandate Is ‘Backdoor Layoff’

CEO Andy Jassy tells Amazon staff that the recent 5-day in-office mandate is not meant to be “a backdoor layoff”

2 weeks ago

AWS Tells Staff To Leave If They Don’t Wish To Return To Office

Head of Amazon Web Services reportedly tells staff to leave if they don't like controversial new 5-day-per-week in-office policy

1 month ago

WeWork Emerges From Bankruptcy Protection

WeWork, once valued privately at $47bn and seen as future of workplace, emerges from bankruptcy protection in US

5 months ago

Businesses Turn To Remote Workers To Obtain Skills, Expereo Finds

New research from Expereo finds one third of global enterprises hire people they have never met, due to skills shortage

1 year ago

Amazon To Penalise Staff Excessively Working From Home

Staff at Amazon who work from home too often are being tracked and will be penalised, e-commerce giant warns

1 year ago

Meta Workers Told To Return To Office Three Days A Week – Report

Facebook parent organisation Meta requires staffers to return to the office three days a week, starting in September

1 year ago

Amazon Staff Walkout Over Environment, Return To Office Policies

Challenge to Andy Jassy, as Amazon corporate workers set to walkout over return-to-work and environmental policy frustrations

1 year ago

Hybrid Working Key Factor For Most Tech Workers

Techspace report finds that three quarters of tech workers consider hybrid working a key factor when choosing future employer

2 years ago

Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai Admits Some Google Offices Are Like ‘Ghost Town’

Google CEO defends desk-sharing policy during staff meeting, and admits that some offices are like a ‘ghost town’

2 years ago

Amazon Staff Push Back At Return-To-Office Order

Unhappy Amazon staff reportedly taking to internal websites and comms channels to complain about return-to-office order

2 years ago

Safe Homes: Security Tech for Remote Workers

With remote mass working now the norm, and as the threat perimeter moves to wherever each employee chooses to work…

2 years ago

Snapchat Staff Ordered Back To The Office

No more home working. Return to office working after Snap workers instructed to work in the office 80 percent of…

2 years ago

Twitter Staff Brace Amid Reports Musk Will Axe Half Of Workforce

Beleaguered staff at Twitter are bracing themselves for bad news, amid multiple reports Elon Musk will axe half of the…

2 years ago

Silicon UK In Focus Podcast: The Infrastructure of the Metaverse

How does the IT infrastructure needed to support the Metaverse differ from the IT infrastructures that are currently in place?…

2 years ago

Spain Plans ‘Digital Nomad’ Visa For Remote Workers

Remote workers longing for a sunnier climate, are to be offered a 'digital nomad' visit and tax breaks by Spain

2 years ago

Amazon Has No Plans To Make Staff Return To Office

Return to office. CEO Andy Jassy says Amazon will not force corporate staff back into the office anytime soon

2 years ago

Apple Staff Petition Against Return To Office Order

More staff pushback against Apple CEO Tim Cook and his order last week for employees to return to the office…

2 years ago

UK Staff Resisting ‘Big Return’ To The Office, Says infinitSpace

Remote working to stay? Majority of business leaders are struggling to get staff to return to the office, survey from…

2 years ago

Apple Orders Staff Back To Office, Three Days A Week

Memo from Tim Cook tells Apple staff in the Bay area, that from next month, they must come into the…

2 years ago

San Francisco Mayor Admits City Has To Adjust To Remote Working Reality

Mayor of San Francisco admits her city needs to adjust to new reality that many workers will not return to…

2 years ago

Elon Musk Return To Office Demand Opposed By German Union

Blunt order by Elon Musk for Tesla staff to return to the office or resign their jobs, faces pushback from…

2 years ago

Elon Musk Tells Tesla Staff To Return To Work Or Resign

'Come back to the office or resign' Elon Musk tells Tesla staff, as the world's richest man rejects remote working…

2 years ago

Apple Loses Senior Executive Over Remote Working Policy – Report

Insistence by Tim Cook and co that staff work in the offices has resulted in departure of Apple's director of…

3 years ago

Apple Staff Unhappy At Return-To-Office Memo

Frustrated Apple staff push back against Tim Cook's demand for corporate staff to return to the office, and threaten to…

3 years ago

Cisco Looks To Hybrid Workplaces With Webex Updates

Cisco unveils hybrid work solutions in its Webex platform, as collaboration becomes vital component in workplaces following the pandemic

3 years ago

Apple Patent Outlines Mac In A Keyboard

Retro computing move. Patent from Apple imagines Magic keyboard with a built-in Mac, allowing user to just attach screen, mouse

3 years ago

Microsoft Reopening Campuses, Offices As Pandemic Eases

Software giant reopening its offices in Washington State, and giving staff 30 days to return to the office starting 28…

3 years ago

UK Bosses Rethink Physical Office Spaces, Slack Finds

End of physical offices and the 9 to 5? New research from Slack suggests 98 percent of UK bosses have…

3 years ago

Great Resignation Increases Security Risks For Businesses, Warns Tessian

Large scale resignations during the Coronavirus pandemic is causing security risks for businesses in the UK and US, Tessian survey…

3 years ago