In the second part of our series on the future of the workplace, Ben Chu asks whether a major shift to homeworking as a result of the coronavirus pandemic might impact the UK’s chronic output stagnation
‘People aren’t being made to go back because working from home isn’t effective, but the government is pushing so people have to pay £5 for their Pret A Manger lunch’
Furloughed workers are ‘languishing out of work’, says prime minister
Average sale price of a home jumped £3,188 to £224,123 in August as as buyers rushed to take advantage of stamp-duty holiday
While businesses across the world floundered, the video conferencing app went from relative obscurity to a regular part of a day in the (home) office. Ben Chapman takes a look at the rise of the world’s best known video conferencing platform
Consultation launched over landmarks as City grapples with historic sources of its wealth and power in response to Black Lives Matter
Cutting down on unnecessary travel makes sense while coronavirus is still causing problems, writes James Moore
It’s going to get harder for the chancellor through the economic chill of the autumn – but the cabinet in which he serves is desperately short of big hitters, writes James Moore
Manufacturing employment slumped ‘at one of the steepest rates during the past 11 years’, with small, medium and large-sized firms all reducing staff numbers
Company multiplies customer numbers five and a half times in a year as people rapidly adopt video technology for work, education and keeping in touch during lockdown