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News Articles: remote work

The federal government, the nation's largest employer, is urging a return to office for federal employees this fall. A government report found that in the first three months of 2023, building occupancy at 17 federal agency was 25% or less.

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  • Business

Biden wants federal workforce to come to the office more. Some ask why?

As employers including the federal government cut back on remote work, employees who never had any intention of working from an office push back and threaten to retire or resign.

September 07, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
Roxana Garcia Espejo of Sugar Land, Texas, says her mostly remote job with Microsoft completely changed her work-life balance. In April, she lost that job as part of mass layoffs but still connects with other enthusiasts in the Microsoft Speakers Hub, an online forum.

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  • Business

Remote work is harder to come by as companies push for return to office

Three and a half years after the start of the pandemic, employers are getting serious about increasing the amount of time workers spend in the office and trying new strategies to overcome resistance.

September 02, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
The 777 Tower in downtown Los Angeles' financial district is one of two buildings that Brookfield, the city's largest office owner, defaulted on this year.

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  • Business

A lot of offices are still empty — and it's becoming a major risk for the economy

The office property sector is in trouble as many workplaces remain empty, and that threatens to spark a number of economic problems, including more pain at the country's banks.

May 16, 2023
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani
Cobbler James Wallace Sears has spent decades fixing the shoes of lawyers, consultants and financial advisers who work in nearby corporate towers. With so many of them still working from home, he's not sure his business will survive.

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  • Business

Companies are shedding office space — and it may be killing small businesses

With so many people still working from home, companies are cutting back on office space. That spells trouble for small businesses that depend on foot traffic.

May 12, 2023
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  • Arezou Rezvani
Carrie Kissell spent nearly three months on a sailboat after Airbnb told her she could live and work anywhere. "When the work day was over, I'd close my laptop and you know, go snorkeling," she says.

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  • Business

Airbnb let its workers live and work anywhere. Spoiler: They're loving it

Airbnb says its Live and Work Anywhere policy is all about winning the global war for talent. A year in, the company and its workers are reaping all sorts of added benefits.

April 28, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
The amount of time people spend in meetings tripled in the pandemic, Microsoft found in one study. Now, companies are looking at ways to cut back.

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  • Business

Shopify deleted 322,000 hours of meetings. Should the rest of us be jealous?

The pandemic had an unexpected side effect: peak meeting misery. With Shopify's radical announcement last month, the working world wants to know if a future without meetings is even possible.

February 15, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Stacey Vanek Smith
Commuting offers some workers a period of respite between work and home, researchers found.

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  • Health

Study: Commuting has an upside and remote workers may be missing out

Researchers surveyed commuters to find out what they do — and don't — get out of the daily trek to and from work. Many people say it's invaluable personal time to recover and switch gears.

February 07, 2023
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  • Matthew Piszczek and
  • Kristie McAlpine
A new Gallup report finds employee engagement in need of a rebound, finding only 32% of U.S. workers to be engaged with their work.

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  • Business

America, we have a problem. People aren't feeling engaged with their work

A new Gallup report finds employee engagement in the U.S. fell in 2022 to 32%. Young people in particular reported feeling less cared about at work and having fewer opportunities to learn and grow.

January 25, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
The time-tracking software TimeCamp is able to monitor what files are accessed, and for how long, and whether other non-work activities, such as streaming services, are used on a laptop.

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  • Business

A woman is ordered to repay $2,000 after her employer used software to track her time

The remote employee had charged her company for 50 hours that were not associated with her job, a Canadian court found. The company used time-tracking software installed on her laptop.

January 13, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sign stands at the entrance of their offices in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. On Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, the head of nation's top public health agency announced a shake-up of the organization, in a bid to respond to ongoing criticism and try to make it more nimble.

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  • News

Much of the CDC is working remotely. That could make changing the agency difficult

Like many U.S. workplaces, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went remote during the pandemic. Most of the agency’s staff members haven’t returned to the office full time, raising concerns about the CDC’s ability to reform itself after recent stumbles.

December 05, 2022
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  • Sam Whitehead
Just before turning 55, Dean Hebert retired from his job at the University of Maryland after realizing he had plenty of savings to support himself in retirement.

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  • Business

Early retirement took off during the pandemic. An economic downturn could change that

Millions of workers left the labor force during the pandemic. Older workers have been slow to return, in part because many found themselves financially secure enough to retire.

October 25, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu
The Remote Wars

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  • Economy

Why your bad boss will probably lose the remote-work wars

Since 2020, office workers have waged an epic battle to work remotely. They're mostly winning.

September 21, 2022
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Nitin Budhiraja discovered during the pandemic that he loved working from home. He now works fully remotely.

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  • Business

A new work anxiety: Will I be penalized for working from home?

In the "new normal" of the hybrid workplace, are remote and in-person workers going to be treated equally? It's a matter of hot debate right now.

August 18, 2022
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  • Jacqueline GaNun
People walk by a subway stop in midtown Manhattan in New York City on April 13. Some of the city's top CEOs say they are being told by their employees that they are afraid to return to work after a recent spate of high-profile attacks.

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  • Business

A spate of horrific attacks in New York has people fearful of returning to work

Companies in New York City face another setback as they push workers to come back to work: Employees are saying they don't feel safe in the city anymore.

August 14, 2022
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  • David Gura
Brandie Diamond describes herself as a "transgender truck driver/chef/Jill-of-all-trades." But her career in trucking began in the mid-1980s, and she hadn't come out as trans back then.

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  • Mental Health

What women truckers can tell us about living and working alone

American long-haul truckers share wisdom from the road on living where you work

July 22, 2022
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  • Adelina Lancianese
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