Call centre giant will use webcams to ensure staff working from home are not eating, looking at their phones or leaving their desks while on duty France-based Teleperformance told workers to expect the specialist equipment Webcams will be used for training but will also see if workers are using keyboard Firm says it does not … Read more
The chief strategist at London‘s Canary Wharf has said thousands of workers are expected to return to offices as Covid restrictions are eased in the coming months. Howard Dawber, Canary Wharf Group’s head of strategy, said they are expecting numbers to increase from March 29 and that this will increase when services such as bars, … Read more
Staff tired of working from the confines of their home will be able to switch location after one pub offered workers the chance to rent a ‘pub desk’ at their venue. The Famers Arms in Goldcliffe, near Newport, South Wales, is offering workers the chance to book a three-hour time slot and work from its … Read more
Labour run Hammersmith and Fulham council BANS all staff from smoking at their desks while working from home Council has banned staff from smoking even when they are working at home Hammersmith and Fulham council told staff ‘any part of a private dwelling used solely for work purposes will be required to be smoke-free’ Smoking … Read more
Get back to work! Boris Johnson orders civil servants to return to their desks as officials (belatedly) try to lead from the front Prime Minister set target of four in five workers to return to Whitehall each week At beginning of lockdown there were 423,000 civil servants employed full time In a letter to … Read more
A public information campaign urging people in Britain to get back to work following the coronavirus lockdown has had its first air date pushed back. The series of adverts encouraging people to return to offices was originally due to begin tomorrow, but it will not now start until next week at the earliest. The UK … Read more
Could testing in offices get the UK back to work? Ministers hope screening for coronavirus among staff might be the answer to getting more people back at their desks Routine testing could be carried out in offices and factories to combat Covid Firms that test employees could be exempt from future local lockdowns Law firm … Read more
Two first-grade teachers in Florida have sought to ease their student’s anxieties about returning to school this month amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic by transforming their school desks into little colorful Jeeps. Patricia Dovi, 35, and Kim Martin, 51, of St. Barnabas Episcopal School in DeLand, spent a week redesigning their student’s desks, which feature … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggests there is ‘no excuse’ for people not to return to their desks – claiming ‘relatively low’ number have caught coronavirus at work Matt Hancock says UK not planning to follow France’s lead on wearing of masks Masks or face coverings to be worn in all workspaces in France from September … Read more
Only one in seven civil servants working at the Cabinet Office are back at their desks, new figures show Mail can reveal that just one in seven civil servants have returned to the office This comes despite the Prime Minister asking people to stop working from home Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: ‘If civil servants don’t … Read more