Work From Home

THE BOTTOM LINE

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

New evidence suggests the rise of working from home has made entry-level hires a less attractive proposition

'Out of order' signs are displayed on empty fuel pumps at an Ampol petrol station after it ran out of fuel in Sydney, Australia, on Mar 20.

Asia looks to Covid-era playbook to tackle fuel crisis

No country in the region has enforced work-from-home measures yet, but some have said they are on the table

The plan comes as Nomura prepares to move its headquarters next year into a tower under construction in central Tokyo.

Nomura doubles minimum work-from-office requirement in Japan

Japanese banks have largely refrained from following global peers that have been accelerating the push to get employees back to the office more frequently

Firms which insist on staff being in the office five days a week won better ratings from their employees on “agility” but scored worse on other measures such as supportiveness and quality of leadership.
THE BROAD VIEW

Does working from home kill company culture?

Our analysis suggests it depends on what sort of culture bosses want

The office vacancy rate in central London fell to 7.1% in March, according to agency Savills.

Return-to-office mandates fuel hopes of London property market revival

The trend is reflected in falling vacancy rates and record office rents in prime locations such as central London

Of all the businesses leasing space in London last year, banks and financial firms showed the biggest increase in size.

Banks want staff back at the office. There aren’t enough desks

Supply shortages are limiting what space is available, further complicating the return to office

More than half of JPMorgan’s employees already come into the office full-time, according to the memo from the bank’s operating committee. It has more than 316,000 staff worldwide

JPMorgan asks staff to return to office five days a week, prompting complaints 

US BANK JPMorgan Chase on Friday asked its employees who are on hybrid work schedules to return to the office five days a week starting in March, an internal memo seen by Reuters showed, prompting hun...

Amazon employs more than 350,000 corporate employees worldwide – mostly in the US – and it’s not clear precisely how many people are affected by the return-to-office delays.

Amazon delays return-to-office mandate for thousands of workers due to space

The delay is the latest twist in a return-to-office saga that has roiled Amazon’s normally heads-down workforce