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Companies are calling employees back to the workplace – but not all of them. This is stoking resentment among workers and employers.

Some new graduates are beginning their careers on salaries most workers will never hit in their careers – but what are the long-term implications?

Rather than quit, more and more employees are happy to just get by and collect their salaries. Is it necessarily a problem?

Jumping back into office life isn’t always a matter of strolling through the front door and getting down to work. For an increasing number of workers, it can be cause for panic.

Recognising colleagues is a basic courtesy – but it actually involves deep cognitive resources that can leave many of us scratching our heads.

Remote working during the pandemic shrank employees’ worlds. Now, some colleagues feel like they simply don’t exist in workers’ daily lives – and it's having an effect.

Rather than sending a withdrawal or rejection email, workers and employers are simply cutting off contact during the hiring process. Are we stuck in a ‘ghosting’ spiral?

We’ve been taught to keep work and play apart. Yet more of us are still taking workcations, years into the pandemic – and reaping the benefits. The trend could be here to stay.

Policymakers in many nations are trying to reform the gig economy. Yet regulations have a long way to go to meet the needs of growing numbers of platform-based workers.

To pull reluctant workers back to the office, some employers are upping pay packets and offering perks just for stepping through the door. Is it the right approach?