Why energy prices could kill working from home
The new price cap changes the calculation on whether staying at home is still cheaper than going to the office.
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Freelance café culture is dying and I have nowhere else to go
My regular haunt has closed and co-working spaces are too pricey. I’m not the only one, so why can no…
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Why your meetings are a waste of time
The biggest study so far on meetings and productivity finds that most companies should eradicate them almost entirely.
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Does the UK need new heatwave working laws?
With temperatures exceeding 37°C, these are your rights for working in hot temperatures.
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From the NS archive: Sexist scenes from office life
30 May 1986: It’s incredible what women have to contend with from some of their male associates.
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Women aren’t choosing to be stay-at-home mothers – they’re forced
Huge childcare costs mean that however many years of graft you’ve put into your work you must pick: your career…
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Why a four-day work week makes complete sense for businesses and the economy
A major new trial could bring benefits for companies as well as workers.
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Office clearout leaves Britain with more jobs than workers to fill them
So many people have left work or changed industry since the pandemic that for the first time demand for staff…
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How “time theft” became a popular idea — and why it’s dangerous nonsense
UK businesses do not lose more than £116bn a year to “stolen time”.
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“The price of getting to your job is astronomical”: Britain’s cost-of-working crisis
Employees are being hit by inflation, childcare and commuting costs — especially those who moved away to work from home…
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The fire-and-rehire policy used by P&O jeopardises millions of British jobs
Policies that enforce insecure work have become more widespread since the pandemic.
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Millions of employees don’t know if they’ll be working next week
Insecure working hours are bad for wellbeing and add extra costs such as emergency childcare.
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The “new normal” has turned the office into a men’s club
Women are more likely to apply for remote working roles, and the gender pay gap is getting worse.
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“It’s not shameful”: the fertility officer taking on work’s parent problem
Solicitor Natalie Sutherland is the world's first fertility officer, tasked with finding common ground between professional structures and real life.
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My generation don’t see maternity leave as the only reason to take a career break
Boomers love judging millennials for putting their lives before their jobs.
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“Flexible working has nothing to do with working from home”: Anna Whitehouse on how the workplace punishes women
The Flex Appeal campaigner has spent five years pushing companies to be more reasonable about parents' time.
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Don’t listen to the doomsters, my four-day week is pure joy
For the first time in my working life, things seem doable.
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The grey resignation: why the disappearance of older workers is an economic risk
There are now 208,000 fewer over-50s in the UK’s labour market than there were before the pandemic, and that’s a…
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There is no “best place to work” any more – just good jobs and bad jobs
A new list of the top companies by employee reviews shows how drastically the world of work has changed.
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Danger, dehydration and doorbells: what it’s like delivering Christmas shopping for Amazon
For Amazon drivers, the festive season is a time of precarious employment and unsustainable workloads handed out by unseen algorithms.
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