The COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting effect on how people operate in their day-to-day work duties, with remote working becoming increasingly applicable.As of 2023, the Pew Research Center found that over 20 million people in the United States work remotely.Organisations have been gradually trying to persuade staff to return to the office as society further distances itself from the pandemic and looks to return to pre-COVID-19 normality.A fresh survey from Ringover has observed what it would...
Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration announced a new directive on Wednesday that will require state employees to work in the office at least two days a week.
While many bars across the country will be forced to raise their prices due to the latest increase, one Dublin city pub is taking a different approach
Earlier this year, Stonegate Pub Company announced that its parent company TDR Capital was seeking to refinance a £2.5bn black hole. The business is one of the largest pub companies in the country, now behind more than 4,500 sites including chains Be At One and Slug and Lettuce. Back in January, GMB Union warned that the pubs the company operates, including dozens in Leeds, could be “at risk”. And this week, the Guardian reported that Stonegate was “struggling” to pay off the remaining debt...
Officers are searching for him after an incident that was reported on St Paul’s Street in the early hours of Tuesday morning (April 9). West Yorkshire Police said there are growing concerns for his welfare and that he may need medical attention, as an appeal continues. Sharp is described as a 32-year-old white man, of about 5ft 5ins, with a slim face, brown hair and a stubble beard. He was captured on CCTV in Burley earlier this week wearing an orange coat, grey trousers and white trainers. He...
Work is underway to re-lay new granite paving in a flagship city centre development - but it could take two months. Workers are replacing a swathe of asphalt on Wellington, Cambridge and Charles streets that appeared after cobbles were torn up to run pipes to a new food hall on Cambridge Street. Readers voiced dismay at how it was left in October. In March, Sean McClean, director of regeneration and development at Sheffield Council, said he shared people’s frustrations at the six-month wait to...
At a meeting of Derry city and Strabane District Council’s Environment and Regeneration Committee on Wednesday, April 17, DfC’s North West Development Officer, Paul Mc Naught, said the £5.1 million project would “transform a number of streets adjacent with the historic City Walls”. He added: “It is the Department’s largest investment in public realm project since the completion of the Guildhall Square and Waterloo Place scheme in 2010. “Initial considerations for this project actually started in...
Some real estate agents have been pretty busy over the past few weeks.
The number of homes available for sale rose by more than 10 percent in March compared to the same time a year ago, data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed on Tuesday.Last month, there were 477,000 new homes available for sale, 44,000 more than in March of 2023. Compared to February 2024, new homes ready for sale were up by close to 3 percent. The March data amounted to 8.3 months of supply of homes available for sale.: What Is a Mortgage? Types & How They WorkMeanwhile, sales for the month were...
Homes in these cities are still unaffordable on the average household income. But the downturn signals that demand might be steadying.
Three boys aged 16, 15 and 15 have now been arrested after the stabbing of a boy who is also 15
Tesla dropped the prices of its vehicles globally on Friday as the largest electric vehicle manufacturer faces declining sales. The prices of the Model X, Model Y and Model S — three of its four best-selling vehicles — were each reduced by $2,000, days after the company recorded below-anticipated delivery figures for the first quarter