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Designing a New Workplace: Pandemic Inspired Offices
What will the office look like in a post-COVID-19 world? It’s a question architects and office designers have been wrestling with for months.
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Lawmakers Considering Ways of Helping Remote Workers Recoup Expenses
If you’re one of the millions of people working remotely these days, chances are you’ve been using a lot more technology at home than before. But, how much has it cost you? Addressing this issue, state lawmakers are in the midst of drafting two bills. Both could help alleviate the expenses of workers who’ve been forced to work from...
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Lawmakers Considering Ways of Helping Remote Workers Recoup Expenses
If you’re one of the millions of people working remotely these days, chances are you’ve been using a lot more technology at home than before. But, how much has it cost you?
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Changes, Challenges: the Not-So-Secret Life of Pandemic Pets
Ten months into quarantines and working from home because of the pandemic, household pets’ lives and relationships with humans have in many cases changed, and not always for the better.
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Hawaii's Business Community Wants You to Move Your Remote Office to Its Islands
Hawaii is a tourism-dependent state, but visits have dropped almost 90% as the pandemic has nearly frozen leisure travel. A temporary residency program called Movers and Shakas is trying to change that by giving contest winners a ticket to move and work from the island. Co-founder Richard Matsui talked to LX News about the new initiative that he hopes will...
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Google Delays Return to Office, Announces ‘Flexible Work Week' Test Plan
Google has delayed its plan for employees to return to the office, moving the date from July to September 2021, according to a staff memo sent Sunday night by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Tips to Relieve Your Work From Home Fatigue
Almost eight months after the coronavirus swept the U.S. and millions continue to work from their homes. NBCLX’s Clark Fouraker shares some tips to help ease your pandemic work from home fatigue and bring more balance to your life.
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Remote Workers Turn to Temporary ‘Coworkers' for Productivity
Remote workers who need a little extra help on productivity are starting to turn to virtual coworkers to help them stay accountable and get work done.
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Tired of Lockdown? Barbados Tempts Remote Workers With 12-Month Visas
Barbados is planning to introduce a 12-month visa that would allow remote workers to swap cramped city apartments for the island’s white sandy beaches, blue sea and year-round sunshine.
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How to Create a Productive Work Space at Home
Modern Antiquarian’s creative director Kelly Maguire provides tips for creating an effective work-from-home setup that is both ergonomically safe and versatile, allowing you to reorganize the space when you go back to your evening routine.
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Child Adorably Interrupts Live TV Interview
Working from home presents its own set of unique challenges, but one health expert found that out on live television as her young daughter sought a place to showcase her unicorn picture.
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Tips for Working Securely from Home During Pandemic
Like millions of Americans, Oceanside resident Rob Wetzel is working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, spending more time on his computer and phone. He doesn’t know when or how it happened, but his online passwords were stolen. “I got an email and the subject of the email was my password to this special program that I use and...
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Redesigning the Workplace
When workplaces start to reopen again, they will be different.
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Working From Home: Many May Never Go Back
Millions of Americans have shifted to telecommuting as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially changing the way we work forever.
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Low-tech Japan Challenged in Working From Home Amid Pandemic
When the Japanese government declared an emergency to curb the spread of the coronavirus and asked people to work from home, crowds rushed to electronics stores
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Warning About Work From Home Scams
Working from home can bring many challenges, scammers being one of them
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Be Careful of Work From Home Scams: Officials
The Department of Consumer Protection, the Better Business Bureau Serving Connecticut and Attorney General William Tong are warning families to be aware of work from home scams that may be targeting vulnerable workers. The DCP said they have received complaints about re-shipping scams since the emergence of coronavirus in Connecticut. Many people in Connecticut who are out of work are…
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The Secret to Landing a Remote Job — and Who Is Hiring Right Now
To help those who want to shift away from working in the office to working from home, CNBC spoke to FlexJobs to find out the best way to search for a remote job, sell your skills and prepare for the interview — and which companies are hiring remote workers right now.
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How to Dress While Working From Home, According to the Experts
It can be tempting to fall into a uniform of sweatpants and pajamas when working from home for an extended time. And while there’s something to be said for relaxing your style when you don’t need to adhere to an office dress code, some folks actually prefer to get dressed up to maintain a sense of normalcy.
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U.S. Internet Well-equipped to Handle Work From Home Surge
Tech experts say the U.S. internet won’t have any trouble handling spikes in traffic from the millions of Americans who are now working from home to discourage the spread of the new coronavirus