PwC to allow employees paid time off for fertility treatment

Accounting giant PwC to allow employees paid time off for fertility treatment By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 26 June 2021 | Updated: 22:46 BST, 26 June 2021 Accounting giant PwC is to allow its employees paid time off for fertility treatment, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.  The big four … Read more

Big Four beancounter PwC to hire 100,000 employees world-wide

Big Four beancounter PwC to hire 100,000 employees world-wide as it expands consultancy services By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 15 June 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 15 June 2021 Big Four accountant PwC plans to hire 100,000 employees world-wide as it expands lucrative consultancy services in areas such as climate … Read more

One third of UK businesses plan to install electric vehicle charging points at employees homes

One third of UK businesses would consider installing electric vehicle charging points at employees’ homes One third of firms would think about putting charging points in employees’ homes to support the use of electric vehicles, according to new research  One in five claim the increase of home working has influenced their plans Upfront costs and … Read more

Google’s says employees can return to office in April while Amazon won’t bring staff back until fall

Google has announced that some of its US employees have the option of returning to the office this month while Amazon says its workers won’t come back until the fall.  According to USA Today, google told staff on Wednesday that offices would be reopening in a limited capacity.  ‘Because the situation remains dynamic, we continue … Read more

Firms will offer employees free home testing kits

Firms will be able to offer their employees free Covid home testing kits from next week as ministers ramp up efforts to make offices safe Companies will be able to supply employees with Covid-19 tests under new rules  Matt Hancock believes rapid testing will help with the country with the road map The new system … Read more

Employees need ‘microbreaks’ of just five minutes throughout the day to fight fatigue

Taking a short break can improve your productivity during a tough work day, a new study suggests.  A team from North Carolina State University found a five-minute ‘microbreak’ is enough to improve mental sharpness and help employees fight fatigue. Researchers conducted an international survey and found that when employees came to work tired they took … Read more

Goldman Sachs CEO who raged about employees working from home used company private jet for getaways

The CEO of Goldman Sachs, who has raged that employees working from home in the pandemic is an ‘aberration’, took seven weekend holidays on the company’s private jet in as many weeks, according to a new report. CEO David Solomon’s trips over seven weekends in January and February were mostly to the Bahamas, including an … Read more

Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown encourages employees to return to the office

More people are heading in to the office every day than working from home in the wake of the announcement of the roadmap out of lockdown.   Only 32 per cent of Britons surveyed said they are still exclusively working at home, while 39 per cent are working every day at their normal place of work. … Read more

Coca-Cola is accused of reverse racism for sharing a video encourages employees to be ‘less white’ 

Coca-Cola is accused of racism for telling employees to ‘try to be less white’ because it is ‘oppressive, arrogant and ignorant’  The slides are from a resource video uploaded to Coca-Cola’s LinkedIn Learning platform A disgruntled employee shared them to social media last week, where they quickly went viral and sparked a backlash Critics are now … Read more

Almost half of New York Times employees don’t feel they can express their views freely, survey finds

Almost half of all New York Times employees say they don’t believe they can express their views freely at the newspaper, according to a company survey.    A poll conducted among staff in December revealed negative responses to questions regarding company culture, the New York Post reported.  According to the report, only 51 per cent of … Read more