Employees who choose to work remotely should pay a tax to help those workers on low incomes who cannot, said a research note from Deutsche Bank. According to the research report titled "What We Must Do to Rebuild," employees who work from home receive immediate financial benefits, including reduced costs for travel, food and clothing.

Governments use a variety of labor market policies to support workers who lose their jobs – each with a different impact on a country's well-being.

Just because your state or city allows you to bring staff back to the office doesn’t mean that the facilities are ready for them to work safely. Here’s what you need to consider before employees return – assuming you can convince them to do so. Don’t count on that.

Telecommuting requires new interpersonal skills, especially if you’re trying to stay on the boss’s radar. So what’s the best approach?

Ifirst became an economist in the early 1970s, at a time when revolutionary change still seemed like an imminent possibility and when utopian ideas were everywhere, exemplified by the Situationist slogan of 1968: ‘Be realistic. Demand the impossible.’ Preferring to think in terms of the possible I was much influenced by an essay called ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,’ written in 1930 by John Maynard Keynes, the great economist whose ideas still dominated economic policymaking at the time.

Taking down walls made modern offices cheaper, infuriating, and perfect vectors for viral spread. But as a recession looms, they still may not be going anywhere.

Politicians. Chief executives. Newscasters. In the pandemic, the old rules of who is allowed to cry in public are changing.

As the pandemic leaves offices around the world empty, Catherine Nixey asks what was the point of them anyway?

So, you expect life and work to be back to normal soon? Google and many other companies don't. Many of you now working from home may never go back to the office.

The Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn, Jeff Weiner has shared his advice about utilizing the free time for work from home effectively. He always advocates for maximum productivity and has suggested a new approach related to buffer time.

The news these days is overwhelmingly loaded with something or the other about COVID-19 or the coronavirus. Aside from the continual updates on the spread of the disease and the mortalities, there is news about cities being shut down, panic buying of essentials and not-so-essentials, and overloaded treatment and quarantine centers, among others. Employers are preparing themselves for possible disruptions – such as labor shortages, transportation issues, reduced working hours and low consumer traffic – that could have long-term effects on business.

Why do we work? Many of us might give a simple transactional answer to the question: we work in order to make money. For the American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-70), and the management thinkers inspired by his theory of motivation, people’s motives for working could not be reduced to a paycheck. Instead, Maslow and his followers argued in management texts and training seminars that people work to fulfil higher psychological needs. People work to become self-actualised and to find meaning – provided that meaning can be found in the mundane realities of working life.

It's very easy to set up a Zoom video conference, but, by default, it's also easy for hostile strangers to break into your meeting. Here's how to stop them.

Linus Torvalds created Linux and Git from home. Here's how.

Stuck at home thanks to the coronavirus and can't keep away from Facebook, Twitter, Slack, and the like? Here's how to run them so they don't ruin your life.

Quarantine means more people are working from home. If that’s new to you, just follow these tips, and you should do OK. Heck, you may even find that you like it.

Is coronavirus really that much worse than the flu? Yes, it is, and if the past is any guide, staying at home will help keep it from spreading.

One of 2020's hottest office design trends, monochromatic design creates a look that's elegant, clean, and cohesive without removing comfort or approachability.

If you’ve been looking for a work from home opportunity, yet can’t seem to find something that fits your capabilities and schedule, then you may not have considered online proofreading. If you have a keen eye for the details and can spot the errors when you’re reading a blog post or book, then you’re likely to have the necessary skills to make a decent income as a proofreader. What is Proofreading? In simple terms, proofreading is the review or checking of documents for spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. A proofreader is required to sift articles, documents, and other written materials

On paper, it looks like Scott Larsen is doing better than his father was at the same age. At 29, Larsen has a college degree and earns more money, but he doesn't feel he's moving up in the world. When his father, Craig, was 29, he was already married, owned a home in Payson, Utah, and had two of his five children. Now 64, Craig Larsen worked as a mechanical engineer, earning about $20,000 a year at the time, or about $50,500 in today's dollars, even though he hadn't finished college. His wife, Kathy, was a stay-at-home mom.