Work from home has ensured we spend countless hours on video conferences and business calls. If you are like me, still struggling with the ear-hurting earbuds/headphones; Sony has devised a wireless neckband speaker that should take blockade of earphones from our ears and add speaker/microphone around the shoulder for seamless calling and entertainment. Designed as … Read more
Britons headed back to the office for the first time in more than a year today as commuters continued to return to city centres with lockdown rules easing further. Rush-hour traffic congestion in London was at 65 per cent at 8am today, up from last Friday (55 per cent) and the averages in 2020 (49 … Read more
Britons headed back to the office for the first time in more than a year today as commuters continued to return to city centres with lockdown rules easing further. Rush-hour traffic congestion in London was at 65 per cent at 8am today, up from last Friday (55 per cent) and the averages in 2020 (49 … Read more
NO By Helena Frith Powell After a year of working from home, there are plenty of people who are keen to swap their desk in accounts for one overlooking their geraniums for ever. And some generous bosses might even let them. In my view, that would be a disaster. Working from home should not become … Read more
Along with Zoom quizzes, baking banana bread and a constant loop of TikTok videos, home improvements have been on the rise during the course of the pandemic. This is largely a result of more people working from home and having more time to redecorate while being keen to improve their new work spaces. Meanwhile, some … Read more
Now that we are allowed to meet one person for a picnic, the empty spaces in our diaries are starting to fill: chats on park benches, coffee catch-ups beneath the cherry blossom — and from March 29, groups of six can meet outside too. As well as an opportunity to dust off our rusty conversational … Read more
What’s the work/life balance like in Antigua? ‘Work hard, beach hard.’ That’s according to musician and videographer Louisa Cohen, who moved from London to the Caribbean paradise island for a few months during lockdown using a new company that takes all the heavy lifting out of the transition – Work Mango. It finds schools and … Read more
KPMG accountants who have been WFH amid crisis are told to ‘stop moaning’ and ‘playing victims’ by chairman as they raise concerns over pay and pensions Bill Michael told 1,500 consultants on the meeting to quit ‘playing the victim’ Employees at the Big Four accountancy firm had registered concerns over pay Mr Michael, 52, who … Read more
For the skin obsessives among us, you might think that the one small silver lining to being cooped up at home and tied to our screens all day long is that we’re dodging damaging UV light. In fact, the shift may not have been quite so good for our complexions as we thought. New research … Read more
How Covid changed Britain: WFH is STILL on the rise and people spend more time gardening, doing DIY and watching TV – but we are not sleeping as much as in the first lockdown Time study shows that many habits have lingered from the first Covid lockdown Britons are still spending more time gardening, doing … Read more