What qualifies as an occupational accident when an employee is working from home? In France, despite regulations intended to be simple in substance and form, many teleworking accidents end up in the courts’ blind spot.
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A kind of remote working already existed across the European countryside in the early 14th century. Daniele Rizzi considers what the pre-industrial putting-out system can teach both modern workers and modern bosses.
Deep structural problems were already pushing it to breaking point. And with teleworking becoming the new normal after COVID, Paris’s La Défense business district stands as a melancholic shadow of its old, buzzing self. Can it find a way to reinvent itself?
Higher, faster, more expensive – in German cities, renting out office space was a booming business. Then came remote working and higher interest rates.
As workers around the globe are faced with the mercury rising, jobs both inside and outside are becoming less and less bearable in the summer months.
Silicon Valley firms are leading the way in corporate policy, while European countries like Germany are beginning to draw up laws to create a bonafide legal right to work from home.
Our roving Swedish reporter’s darkish holiday dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria.
Portugal has become the first place in the world where it is illegal for managers to contact their employees after hours. Will other countries follow suit?
Casual Friday? Or Casual Monday-through-Friday? In Argentina and elsewhere, confinement completely upended work routines — and may lead to the end of “dressing up” to go in the office.
Will flying be greener? More comfortable? Less frequent? As the world eyes a post-COVID reality, we look at ways the airline industry has been changing through a pandemic that has devastated air travel.
Latin American countries want to cash in on the post-pandemic changes to the fundamental ways we work and live, in particular by capitalizing on a growing demand from the new wave of remote workers and “youngish” professional freelancers with money to spend.
Particularly in mega cities like New Delhi, the pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns have changed our audible environment. What does that tell us about where we’re heading?