NO By Helena Frith Powell After a year of working from home, there are plenty of people who are keen to swap their desk in accounts for one overlooking their geraniums for ever. And some generous bosses might even let them. In my view, that would be a disaster. Working from home should not become … Read more
Along with Zoom quizzes, baking banana bread and a constant loop of TikTok videos, home improvements have been on the rise during the course of the pandemic. This is largely a result of more people working from home and having more time to redecorate while being keen to improve their new work spaces. Meanwhile, some … Read more
Now that we are allowed to meet one person for a picnic, the empty spaces in our diaries are starting to fill: chats on park benches, coffee catch-ups beneath the cherry blossom — and from March 29, groups of six can meet outside too. As well as an opportunity to dust off our rusty conversational … Read more
What’s the work/life balance like in Antigua? ‘Work hard, beach hard.’ That’s according to musician and videographer Louisa Cohen, who moved from London to the Caribbean paradise island for a few months during lockdown using a new company that takes all the heavy lifting out of the transition – Work Mango. It finds schools and … Read more
For the skin obsessives among us, you might think that the one small silver lining to being cooped up at home and tied to our screens all day long is that we’re dodging damaging UV light. In fact, the shift may not have been quite so good for our complexions as we thought. New research … Read more
How Covid changed Britain: WFH is STILL on the rise as people spend more time gardening, doing DIY and watching TV – but we are not sleeping as much as in the first lockdown Time study shows that many habits have lingered from the first Covid lockdown Britons are still spending more time gardening, doing … Read more
Step into my office (if you can)! Tokyo hotel creates double-decker desk pods in bid to lure WFH workers The Anshin Oyado hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has renovated an entire floor on site Capsule room equipped with high speed internet and web conferencing services They also come with an LCD TV, high headphones, a desk … Read more
The Tell-Tale Shoulder: Cyber experts claim they can read what you are typing during Zoom video calls just by analysing your upper arm movements Researchers from the US wrote software than can analyse shoulder movements It translates tiny movements on video into the original directions in real space From this, it can guess the words … Read more
Here we are again; after what felt like a brief interlude, we have returned to Working From Home. So, it’s back to the elastic-waisted loungewear, hair up in a ponytail, and wire-framed specs … or, on second thoughts, maybe not this time. We’ve been here before, and it feels like lockdown 2.0 requires a different … Read more
Education sector leads WFH drive with 51% of businesses from independent schools, exam boards and private tutors planning to increase the amount of their staff working from home Figures show major changes Covid crisis is having across the education sector Just under a fifth of business across economy plan to increase WFH in future Most … Read more