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Work arrangements in which employees perform their jobs partly or fully outside a traditional office, including fully remote and hybrid schedules.
Business Insider reports that working from home accounts for about 26% of US workdays, up from 7% in 2019. The share has barely moved in two years, so attendance mandates meet a flat baseline.
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Kashim Chowdhury, on trial at Southwark Crown Court on nine fraud counts he denies, is accused of holding five full-time public sector jobs at once. The allegations are untested; if the prosecution's account holds, working from home let him keep each job secret from the other employers.
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Researchers analysing nearly 165,000 US employee responses from 2020-2023 found remote workers' satisfaction edge vanished once workplace factors were counted. Most of the gap credited to location reflects the pay and management that come with the job.
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Stack Overflow's 16th developer survey, answered by more than 30,000 people, finds only 18% go into an office every day. For engineering leads, the results bear on attendance rules and on how close to production AI tooling should be allowed to work.
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Peter Cappelli and Y. Jasmine Wu found remote work wearing down help between colleagues in interviews with about 760 employees of a financial firm. The cost lands on newcomers with no one to call, outside the individual deliverables supervisors were told to watch.
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Employers refusing flexible working requests will have to show it is reasonable to rely on one of eight statutory grounds, under rules expected in late 2027. Rulings on what counts as reasonable will lag the rules by years, so HR teams will apply the test with little guidance.
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Kellogg researchers found remote job ads list 25% more required skills than non-remote ads for the same occupation at the same employer in the same year. Because the extra demands fall on skills and experience more than on degrees, remote-first hiring raises the entry bar for early-career candidates.
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Wharton's Peter Cappelli and Jasmine Wu interviewed 760 staff at a global financial services firm and found remote and hybrid work cut colleague contact. The evidence comes from one firm, but it gives managers who treat hybrid work as settled a reason to re-examine what it costs in collaboration and training.
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Matt Stauffer put fun questions about the Oxford comma and favorite films into a project manager application, and the fully automated answers gave themselves away on tone. The reading took all 703.
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Delivered units make conversion a real use for obsolete downtown offices. The resale prices underneath the trade are still distress prices, and by one banker's account only a fraction of empty buildings qualify.
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A Kellogg study of 50 million job ads finds remote roles want 25% more skills at the same title and employer, while the New York Fed attributes 64% of the rise in young-graduate unemployment to working from home.
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