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The pandemic has seen an uptick in the number of employees quitting jobs. To keep workers interested, businesses have to change tactics.

The big takeaway from the two-year experiment we’ve just conducted in remote work: Everyone is different. Your best work arrangement may not be the same as mine. Can companies allow for both? asks Sarah Green Carmichael.

Employers like Goldman Sachs, Hearst, and Apple have pushed return to office plans over the past year. Many workers want to keep working from home.

From Bloomberg Opinion: 'It might be more persuasive to acknowledge that the office hasn't been all that beneficial for a lot of employees — and to focus instead on making it better,' Sarah Green Carmichael writes.

>> ethan, at the top of the hour were going to get the latest jolts report, these are the official numbers on job openings and people quitting work. we talk all about this great resignation, you may have actually coined that term. people say, oh, people dont want to work, theyve gotten so much money from to work, theyv gotten so much money from the government, theyre just sitting on their couches. but were forgetting that many, many low-wage workers are feeling the brunt of this wrath, people wh...

Takers. imagine 911 call takers in a social media environment. and he finds when the public names and shames employees, in response, they do what you would expect them to do. they escape, they sometimes pass the buck, and some of them leave. and i think were seeing some of that in the great resignation. and partly, the great attraction. we can find, if were tired of dealing with these customers, lets find a job where we dont have to deal with them. >> heres the thing, ethan. many of these compan...

New york times" writer at large behind this incredible piece, also ethan bernstein with harvard business school, he studies labor there. sara, why have so many people in our society become so angry a year and a half ago we couldnt go to restaurant, we were locked down, we couldnt celebrate with our families. now were going off on store clerks. why are we this angry? >> i think were angry at other stuff and were taking it out on people in these restaurants, in airlines, in stores all over the pla...

The real sticking point with remote work is the loss of the casual socialisation that’s good for the individual as well as the group.

There’s a Spider-Man story where Peter Parker signs up to work for one Tony Stark, CEO of the global tech giant, Stark Industries. As a new company man, he gets

Everything CEOs knew about office collaboration is probably wrong Some experts suggest a new idea for the office: not as a headquarters that people go to daily, but as a place that people go to sometimes, for group hangouts. Contemporary open offices led to 70 per cent fewer face-to-face interactions. People found it distracting, so they wore headphones and avoided one another.   The New York Times Share When Yahoo banned working from home in 2013, the reason was one often cited in corporate A...