• Over 80% of Remote Workers Would Return to the Office if Commute Was Compensated For

    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...

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    Newsom issues new return-to-office policy for state workers

    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.

  • CA Orders State Workers Back in Office

    California state employees are being required to be back in office.

  • ‘It’d mean the world’: Portsmouth close in on Championship return

    With John Mousinho in charge, the whole city is ready to celebrate after 12 years out of the top two divisionsWhen Portsmouth celebrated promotion to the Premier League in 2003 and lifting the FA Cup in 2008 which, it later emerged, came at a crippling cost, Southsea Common played host to the party. Fans also gathered there to toast winning League Two in 2017, though at that point they did not anticipate spending quite so long in League One. At the seventh attempt, a return to the second tier...

  • What the FTC's Ban on Noncompete Agreements Means for 30 Million Workers

    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has voted to ban employers from requiring workers to sign noncompete agreements, while blocking the enforcement of most existing clauses.The FTC announced a new rule banning noncompete clauses nationally on Tuesday, maintaining in a press release that the move would protect "the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs" and "promote competition" by "fostering new business formation."An estimated 30 million workers—or about 18 percent of the U.S....

  • WWE Producer Addresses Criticism Of The Rock’s Return To The Company

    Since his return in January, The Rock has made significant contributions to WWE’s business, breaking numerous records. Rock and Roman Reigns teamed up against Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins at WrestleMania XL, and the heels won. The following night, Rhodes exacted his revenge by defeating Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Title. WWE teased a […] The post WWE Producer Addresses Criticism Of The Rock’s Return To The Company first appeared on PWMania - Wrestling News.

  • Crews battle Suffolk office fire overnight, building partially collapsed

    Suffolk Fire & Rescue was dispatched to the 700 Block of N. Main Street for a fire around 10:05 p.m. The road is closed while crews continue to put out hot spots.

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    Airbus workers at Quebec plant reject company's third contract offer

    Unionized workers at an Airbus assembly plant north of Montreal have rejected a contract offer for the third time. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents about 1,300 workers at the Mirabel, Que. facility, says nearly 70 per cent of its members voted against the agreement in principle. Union spokesman Éric Rancourt says negotiators thought they had reached a deal that would satisfy members, but the vote shows that wasn't the case. Earlier in...

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    Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in cloud chief's office

    Nine Google workers were arrested Tuesday after sit-in protests, including a nine-hour sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale.

  • Delays by Home Office risk return of vulnerable Afghan families to Taliban

    Families of those who helped British forces could be deported from Pakistan despite promise to resettle them in UKAfghan families who helped UK forces and then fled to neighbouring Pakistan are in danger of being deported back to the Taliban due to Home Office delays in bringing them to the UK.In the chaotic evacuation period in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in August 2021 some family members eligible for resettlement in the UK became separated from the rest of their families. Some boarded flights...

  • How immigrant workers in US have helped boost job growth and stave off a recession

    It turns out that the influx of foreign-born adults vastly raised the supply of available workers at a time when a labor shortage had left many companies unable to fill jobs.

  • More Companies Are Rushing to Hire A Chief AI Officer — But Do You Need One? Here's What You Need to Know.

    Companies are appointing executives to oversee AI. A better approach: infuse the technology throughout the organization.