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Microsoft exec says lengthening of working day is happening flexibly

Jared Spataro, corporate vice-president for modern work at the tech giant, was was speaking last week on a visit to its Dublin office

Top tech chiefs blame ‘quiet quitting’ on bad leadership communication

Kildare native Caroline Dunning, a senior executive at Twitter, commented at a top tech symposium in San Francisco that quiet quitting has emerged because people are questioning the way they work

‘We’re looking at a culture war’: The growing divide between bosses and staff over remote working

After more than two years of employees working from home, many big companies want to shift the balance back to the office – but staff who are used to remote working are likely to put up plenty of resistance

Fexco sees rise in payments to ‘exotic’ work locations

The Kerry-based financial services company’s analysis has seen a significant increase in payments made to Mexico and the Philippines to freelance providers and software developers

KPMG boss: Younger workers need more time in the office than older staff

Younger staff have missed out on mentoring, networking and collaborating opportunities over pandemic, says Seamus Hand, managing partner, KPMG

This Working Life: Finding the balance to make a success of new hybrid working practices

Employees show no desire to go back to pre-pandemic ways of working and businesses that take a positive and flexible approach to hybrid strategies are more likely to retain staff

This Working Life: How employees with purpose bring more to the workplace

Effective leaders realise that creating the conditions for a more empowered, passionate and purposeful workforce will benefit their organisations in the long run

Oireachtas Committee recommends right to statutory sick pay for all employees

Right to sick pay should apply to all employees regardless of length of employment and should include provision to be refunded for cost of medical certification, the Committee said

Ian Guider: Not enough home comforts in Varadkar’s new laws

The Tánaiste’s legislation on working from home has been criticised for being too pro-employer, but there are also legitimate concerns about its impact on businesses

Willie O’Reilly: Workplace culture is changed forever, but what will it mean for us?

A new survey suggests the vast majority of us want to continue working remotely when the pandemic ends, and there’s no way of knowing how all this will pan out

This Working Life: The future of work is already here

Talk of automation and digitisation can instil fear of being sidelined, but we should be thinking of how we can work alongside technology and adapt to changes already in train

Vincent Boland: Will this pandemic be the death knell for the office as we knew it?

If workers end up in the future doing from home the jobs they did in offices up to last year, it opens up a fundamental debate on what exactly such a place is

‘Hot desking’ still on the table in Central Bank’s post-pandemic work plans

The regulator is likely to offer choice between full-time office or hybrid models of working, with contentious desk-sharing practices not ruled out

Tony O’Brien: We must get the mix right in a post-virus working world

The new challenge is to find a way to do business while meeting the changed needs of your staff, your customers and your enterprise