Telecommuting
What Remote Work Debate? They’ve Been Back at the Office for a While.
Gabe Tucker, 26, is a lawyer with Fortif Law Partners in Birmingham, Ala., where the share of job listings that permit remote work is roughly half that of New York’s. Each morning, Mr. Tucker puts on a button-down shirt, drives for 15 minutes and arrives at the office around 8. His routine, in other words, […]
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The Pandemic Flight of Wealthy New Yorkers Was a Once-in-a-Century Shock
The outlook for this year has become much less certain as the stock market has plummeted in recent months and certain forms of federal aid, like stimulus checks and expanded unemployment benefits, have ended. The city’s Independent Budget Office said it was not possible to calculate the tax revenue lost from the people who had […]
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How Covid Did Away With the Sick Day
Many workers find themselves, consciously or not, mimicking the way their bosses behave. They witness managers answering emails from bed, and feel they should do the same. So some bosses are taking a firmer line on using their leave. Jim Canales, head of the Barr Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on arts, education and climate, […]
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Seeking a Return to Offices, Bosses Lost Leverage
What Barrett Kime’s boss said on the recent video call was straightforward. Could members of his team at NBCUniversal show up on the few days a week that they were actually expected to be in the office? Rebellion ensued. Mr. Kime, a senior creative director, took himself off mute. “I was talking about how it […]
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Wall Street Banks Are Getting Flexible on Working From Home
When Tom Naratil arrived on Wall Street in the 1980s, work-life balance didn’t really exist. For most bankers of his generation, working long hours while missing out on family time wasn’t just necessary to get ahead, it was necessary to not be left behind. But Mr. Naratil, now president of the Swiss bank UBS in […]
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Can Workers Climb the Career Ladder Working Remotely?
Some companies have also started training managers to help remote workers forge their career paths. Nationwide Insurance, which early in the pandemic moved a majority of its 25,000 workers permanently to hybrid or full-time work-from-home arrangements, trained managers to facilitate career development for associate workers, creating templates for conversations about workers’ skills and interests and […]
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No More Working for Jerks!
Baird, the financial services firm, took the principle a step further by codifying it in policy. Employees are informed during their orientation of the company’s “no asshole rule” — it’s even written into training material. Leslie Dixon, the head of human resources, has fired people for violating it. “By putting it out there in print […]
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With Omicron’s Rise, Americans Brace for Returning to School and Work
Across the country, workers were steeling themselves for months of disruptions to come. “I’ve been working through most of the pandemic, and I hadn’t tested positive before Omicron,” said Amelia Smoak, 29, who works at a restaurant and bar in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood. She is fully vaccinated but recently recovered from a mild case […]
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Apple Pushes Return to Office Date Back to T.B.D.
Apple, which had already delayed its employees’ return to physical offices from September to October to January to February, has a new timeline: to be determined. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, told employees in a message viewed by The New York Times on Wednesday that the company was delaying a return to hybrid work “to […]
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