Work

Businesses are tightening hybrid work rules but homeworking levels have so far barely budged

Wild Geese: Johnny Allen, Australia

Company joins Meta, Alphabet and Amazon in rolling back DEI initiatives following Trump’s return to US presidency

There is no right to remote work, but a request must be considered by an employer

Income distribution points to critical policy questions, including how to deal with a congested Dublin and underdevelopment in rural Ireland

Most companies looking for middle ground between quitting schemes and provoking conservative activists

AI is unlikely to directly replace you, but someone who can use the technology might

Labour productivity in the southwest declined in 2023 due to a slump in manufacturing

Workplace Relations Commission hears pizza chef was paid €25 a day for 73-hour weeks to pay off ‘illegal’ €60,000 ‘recruitment fee’

Worker, earning some €84,630 and an additional allowance, believed he should be promoted as he was on-air doing ‘newscasting’

Data shows proportion of fully remote vacancies close to its lowest level since 2019

But the early days of the Trump administration highlight the pitfalls of sucking up

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Where do companies stand on working from home five years after the pandemic began?

Surveys can give us an idea what they’re worrying about - and it’s everything. A bigger question is how to fix it

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary criticises UK chancellor’s plan for Heathrow expansion and says she ‘doesn’t have a clue’

Personal opinion disclaimers on employee’s own social-media accounts ‘have zero value’

Marwan Al Rahbi alleges constructive dismissal from €112,000 a year post with Rathgar Pharmacy Ltd

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Recruitment platform Indeed publishes annual report on hiring trends

Some employers that are mandating office returns favour retaining their big spaces, while others move to smaller but better-serviced properties

From putting sums aside regularly to going on a no-spend week, here’s what the money experts advise

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Employers’ attitude could prove counterproductive amid shortage of skilled workers

Robert Walters’ Salary Survey shows 63 per cent of staff were expecting a pay rise in 2025

WRC adjudicators say legislation gives them no power to consider merits of decisions made on flexible working requests – only the process followed

Wealthy managers are increasingly isolated from the less well-off at work and that’s not good news

Seen and heard: airport cap row may soon be resolved, Vit Hit’s UK sales and councils to face crackdown on housing targets

Wild Geese: Barry Haughian works for Ukrainian telco Intellias in the Spanish capital

In banking and insurance, 50% of the work that gets done today could actually be executed and completed by technology on its own, Accenture says

When people are shown their failures, they don’t improve

Unlike quiet quitters, who can be managed back to productivity, soft quitters have to be convinced the work is worth doing

Almost five years since Covid-19 pandemic, move seen as latest sign of hybrid working rethink in financial services industry

Wild Geese: Caroline Ryan, Copenhagen

Simon Harris’s interaction with Charlotte Fallon during the general election campaign brought carers’ issues to the fore. Now they are ‘ready to fight’ for equal pay and better funding

Delivery riders are struggling with low pay and insufficient working hours, while the risk of attack means they avoid certain areas of the capital altogether

An increase in Neets, who are not in education, employment or training, exposes grievances about the labour market

WRC cases taken on behalf of workers are likely to be ‘the tip of the iceberg’, and even in successful cases, nonpayment of awards is a significant issue

Workers left to balance home and family life, along with the costs, by themselves

Wild Geese: Molly Walters, Lisbon