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      Compensate teachers in England for inability to work from home, report says

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 20 March - 06:00

    Research recommends bonus to help retain staff and make up for lack of hybrid working opportunities

    Teachers should be given a pay bonus to compensate for their inability to work from home and stop the rising numbers attracted away from the classroom for better working conditions elsewhere, according to a report.

    The research by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found that very few teachers in England were able to work remotely, putting them at a disadvantage compared with the nearly 50% of their peers in other graduate-level professions who say they regularly do.

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      UK employers: what kind of vacancies have you been struggling to fill?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 13 March - 10:01

    We’re keen to hear from employers in Britain which job openings they have been having trouble to recruit for, and why

    Employers in the UK have cut back on hiring new staff , pushing the number of advertised vacancies down on the quarter by 43,000 to 908,000, while the unemployment rate rose unexpectedly to 3.9% in January from 3.8% in December, according to the Office for National Statistics.

    We’re interested to hear from UK employers whether there have been vacancies in their companies they have been struggling to hire qualified staff for, and why they think that has been the case.

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      Boots orders support staff back into office five days a week from September

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 8 March - 11:22

    Retail chain’s boss declares office as ‘much more fun and inspiring place’ with everyone in attendance

    Boots is ordering administrative staff back into the office for five days a week from September as it tries to gear up the business before a potential sale or flotation.

    The CEO, Seb James, said the employees – who had been asked to work at least three days a week in the group’s various bases in Nottingham, Weybridge in Surrey, and London – should return for the full working week, arguing that the office was a “much more fun and inspiring place” with everyone in attendance.

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      Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 17 February - 17:32

    A review of 1,930 papers into home working found major pluses, but also downsides such as antisocial hours and being overlooked for promotion

    Working from home allows people to eat more healthily, feel less stressed and have lower blood pressure, according to a large-scale review of academic literature on post-pandemic workplaces.

    Yet remote workers are also more likely to eat snacks, drink more, smoke more and put on weight, the study by researchers at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and King’s College London found. And employers who believe that people working from home are lazy should think again – they are less likely to take time off sick, tend to work longer hours and to work evenings and weekends.

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      How the working from home boom has left slim pickings for burglars | Torsten Bell

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 February - 10:00

    The change in the way we do our jobs since the pandemic accounts for half of the 30% drop in break-ins since 2019

    Almost none of the long-term changes people said the pandemic would bring have turned out to be true. The gratitude and respect for carers and lower earners didn’t last long once we were allowed to do something more exciting than clapping on our doorsteps. Even online shopping has fallen back to roughly where the pre-pandemic rise would have put it.

    But one change has stuck: working from home (with the important caveat that it’s rocketed among the top half of earners in particular; those working in a shop or restaurant, not so much). What affect will this have? It clearly boosts wellbeing, and is helping more mothers work full time. The research on its productivity impact is far more mixed, and I’d say comes down to a score draw. The big clear win is less time spent commuting, the benefits of which are shared between employees and employers. The losses? Missing out on the less tangible benefits of interacting with colleagues, and humans more generally.

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      Nationwide rescinds ‘work anywhere’ policy and tells staff to come to office

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 6 December - 14:06

    Exclusive: building society overturns previous CEO’s policy, with employees asked to come in for 40% of their contract from January

    Nationwide has told the 13,000 staff it had said would not be forced to return to the office when Covid lockdowns ended that they must start coming in from early next year for at least two days a week for most.

    During the coronavirus crisis the UK’s biggest building society unveiled one of the most far-reaching flexible working policies, called “work anywhere”, telling all staff who did not work in its branches that it was “putting our employees in control of where they work from”.

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