Workplaces are increasingly recognizing that productive employees seek out workplaces that prioritize mental well-being and offer flexible working conditions.
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Elon Musk says wanting to work from home is unethical when not all workers can do it. Here’s why this argument is wrong.
Workplace absences, along with sales lost due to the cessation of brick-and-mortar retail shopping, airline travel and public gatherings, contributed the most.
Will an increase in wages make federal government workers happier and more efficient while dealing with the public on taxation, public safety and a multitude of other daily and often frustrating issues?
COVID-19 transformed the workforce, including in the public sector. A complete reversal to pre-pandemic work models is unlikely, but there’s lots at stake as employers contemplate the future of work.
At the beginning of the pandemic, it was predicted that the shift to remote work would lead to more equal division of domestic labour. Recent research shows this was not the case.
The 1960s cartoon The Jetsons got three things about the future very wrong: the place of women in the workforce, how much we will work, and where we work.
Families living on Mornington Island have to make compromises due to a lack of digital services – including missing out on cultural activities on Country .
A shift towards a more distributed, borderless global workforce will not necessarily lead to job losses for Canada, but it will be disruptive and require restructuring in the labour market.
It turns out that there are some benefits to all the time we spend commuting.
Hybrid and remote-heavy work setups have fundamentally changed how people interact at ‘the office.’ What do workers and managers want out of the workplace now?
More than 40 nations or territories now offer ‘digital nomad’ visas, allowing you to live in one country while being employed in another.
In this new world of hybrid work, managers need to create working conditions that build and maintain interpersonal connections, while allowing for both high productivity and superior job satisfaction.
It’s important that employers and employees understand sympathy, empathy and compassion, and consider these emotions’ roles in both job performance and employee relations.
How governments around the world are trying to woo digital nomads. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The shift to remote work has led to a population boom for towns close to Australia’s major cities. That boom threatens to change what makes those towns so appealing.
As an anthropologist, I have chronicled the digital nomad lifestyle for the past seven years. The reality is far less glamorous than you might imagine
Locals usually see tourists as a way to boost the economy. But at a certain point, resentment starts to build.
Performance reviews were always a challenge, but even more so in the age of hybrid work, when some employees are in the office more often than others.
Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
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