KPMG and Other Firms Plan Hybrid Working but Some Say It's Risky
A KPMG UK executive told Insider its staff won't be working the way they did pre-pandemic. Experts said hybrid workers could lose out on promotions.
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A KPMG UK executive told Insider its staff won't be working the way they did pre-pandemic. Experts said hybrid workers could lose out on promotions.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has directed all state employees to return to in-person work in the office by May 17, after many spent most of the past 14 months working remotely.
In an email to incoming summer interns in March, Goldman Sachs said it was planning on holding its summer internship program in the office for those who can safely travel to its offices. Some of the bank's UK staff are already back in its London offices. Nearly 1,800 of the bank's 6,000 London employees have returned, according to a report by The Guardian in April. Wall Street is beginning to ask staff to return to the office: JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said on April 21 that workers would start returning to the office within weeks. Half of JP Morgan's corporate workforce would be back full tim...
Office Tours Spike 28% As CRE Gears Up For Labor Day Return To The Office Office demand in major U.S. markets jumped by 28% from February to March, according to a monthly report by VTS, a software provider for commercial real estate landlords. VTS’ Office Demand Index increased by 160% in the first quarter and now sits at 86, 9% less than where the index was in February 2020, leading the report to conclude that “return to work appears imminent.” VTS’ index is largely based on the number of office tours conducted by potential tenants in a given mark...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Over 700 people signed up to our Handling Grievances webinar last week, reinforcing our view that the return to the workplace (RTW) process is going to be a fertile breeding ground for such complaints by employees, some around new working conditions, some alleging health and safety failures and others just to vent minor unhappinesses and resentments built up over the last 12 months’ festering at home and finally uncorked in the office. Grievances can be time-consuming and stressful for all concerned, but they are not necessarily a sign that something has go...