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Flexible working

  • Sunday, 5 October, 2025
    Pilita Clark
    What if working from home was a legal right?

    An Australian state is planning a new hybrid work law despite an angry business outcry

    Illustration of an apartment building with thumbs up in all the windows
  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
    Special ReportLessons in Leadership
    How should companies navigate hybrid work?

    Leaders must find the right model for their business and meet demands for flexibility

    Jack Lemmon walks past staff and desks in an open plan office in the 1960 film ‘The Apartment’
  • Sunday, 24 August, 2025
    Work-life balance
    The future of work patterns: part-time, flexitime and now term-time?

    Employment contracts that mirror the school year can be a godsend for some parents, but they come at a cost

    Montage of a phone with a calendar and a mother and child walking and holding hands
  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
    Working from home
    ‘Traffic-light’ dashboard lets PwC monitor office attendance

    Big Four firm checks building pass swipes and WiFi connections to address ‘persistent and deliberate non-compliance’

    The PwC logo on a stone sign outside a modern glass building, with two people walking past
  • Tuesday, 5 August, 2025
    Working from home
    Almost half of UK companies want staff ‘on site’ all the time, survey finds

    Proportion has increased from 27% just two years ago, British Chambers of Commerce says

    City office workers cross London Bridge
  • Sunday, 3 August, 2025
    Emma Jacobs
    With late night calls, even bedtime isn’t boss-free

    Out-of-hours communication takes an emotional toll, but that doesn’t stop employers picking up the phone

    Montage image of a woman in bed on a phone and looking irritated
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Half-days, free ice cream and more WFH as companies revive August perks

    Some employers are letting staff log on remotely all month to offer more summer flexibility

    A montage of a woman working on a laptop, a man lounging in a deck chair and a woman eating an ice cream
  • Friday, 25 July, 2025
    Special ReportBusiness School Debates
    Business school teaching case study: work-from-home models in retreat

    Views differ over how flexible the workplace of the future should be

  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    Working It
    Why the ‘silver economy’ is the future of work

    The pandemic created profound shifts in the workforce — and older people are key

  • Tuesday, 15 July, 2025
    Working from home
    FCA staff push back against review on increasing office attendance

    Union poll finds more than 90% of respondents back action at UK financial watchdog if remote working is cut

    The FCA logo on a door
  • Monday, 14 July, 2025
    Starbucks Corp
    Starbucks to require corporate staff work from office four days a week

    Mandate from chief executive Brian Niccol is latest retreat from flexible remote work policies

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  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    Pilita Clark
    Return to office edicts aren’t always what they seem

    When top executives work remotely, it becomes more difficult to drag everyone else to their desks

    A worker spins a globe on a finger while using the other hand to place a pin marked CEO on a location
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Work Watch
    Working hard to look busy: why young employees are ‘task masking’

    Gen Z’s particular twist on slacking could signal an insecurity about their job

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  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Insider trading
    Ex-Janus Henderson analyst guilty of insider dealing as he worked from home

    Redinel Korfuzi and his sister both convicted of insider dealing and money laundering

    Redinel Korfuzi arriving at Southwark Crown Court in London, England on February 28 2025
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC considers ordering all staff back to office 3 days a week

    Bank seeking to impose unified approach on sprawling global workforce

    Commuters travel up the escalators at Canary Wharf station
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Working from home
    City firms order workers back to the office as WFH perks end

    Office space is increasingly in demand in London as financial companies reverse pandemic working policies

    Santander UK headquarters in central London
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Mental health
    Why ‘28 days’ is critical for staff on sick leave

    When employees take more than a month off work with mental health issues, the chances of return reduce

  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Pilita Clark
    Would you work 32 hours Monday to Sunday?

    One boss thinks it might be better than the traditional four-day week

    An illustration of a female employee creating a work calendar with a brush and palette
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC warns of bonus cuts for staff who work from home too much

    Workers at UK retail bank told line managers will start monitoring office attendance more closely

    View looking towards HSBC at Centenary Square in Birmingham
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Banks
    The paradoxical problem with simplifying bank regulations

    RDARR is no laughing matter

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock orders managing directors back to office five days a week

    Asset manager seeks to boost collaboration as companies roll back pandemic-era policies

    People walk past the entrance of BlackRock headquarters in New York City
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Pilita Clark
    Why the ECB is telling staff it’s time to move

    Central bank wants employees to swap roles at a faster pace

    Illustration of an hourglass shaped like an 8 being shaken at a worker at their desk
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Citigroup Inc
    Citi del Sol: How the party ended for Wall Street bank’s Málaga experiment

    ‘They sold us the dream but the reality was much more different,’ said one employee 

    The popular Malagueta beach in Málaga
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Future of work
    Gen Z is leading the charge back to the office

    Data shows younger staff — more than baby boomers — crave the connection and routine of in-person work

    Rosie Labbett
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Investment Banking
    Citi to close Málaga office that promised bankers better work-life balance

    The US lender told the FT it was shutting its Spanish Costa del Sol office as part of a strategy to ‘simplify the firm’

    Sunseekers crowd the beach of La Malagueta in Málaga, southern Spain
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