HP bets big on future of hybrid work with $3.3bn Poly buy
Plantronics and Polycom have a new parent company
On-Prem28 Mar 2022 | 12
Working from Home
Half of bosses out of touch with reality, study shows
Work Trend Index indicates things are about to get a little messy
On-Prem16 Mar 2022 | 158
Google to wind down pandemic work-from-home
Updated And Apple, too, and Twitter, kinda
On-Prem03 Mar 2022 | 25
Working overtime? Those extra hours might not be hurting your wellbeing after all – just don't tell Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma
If you love your job, going the extra mile might not be stressful or cause depression
Offbeat20 Jan 2022 | 22
COVID-19 was a generational opportunity for change at work – and corporate blew it
Column Faux flexibility – and then back in the office where we can keep an eye on you ...
On-Prem19 Jan 2022 | 106
Bloke breaking his back on 'commute' from bed to desk deemed a workplace accident
Thank goodness he didn't make a diversion for Coco Pops
Offbeat10 Dec 2021 | 114
BROADER TOPICS
Amazon CEO: Directors and team leaders will determine return to work policy for white collar workers
And warehouse staff, datacentre engineers, retail staffers? 'Thanks for your dedication' but no flexible work for you
Off-Prem12 Oct 2021 | 5
'This is the new normal,' Microsoft tells US workers: Work from home until further notice
Plus: President Biden wants businesses with 100+ staff to get vaccinated or test weekly
On-Prem09 Sep 2021 | 75
Biggest takeaway from pandemic lockdowns for Microsoft? Teams stopped talking to each other
Maybe they were using, you know, Microsoft's collaboration service
Offbeat09 Sep 2021 | 20
Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we're still burning out
Chartered Institute of Information Security reveals what you're all thinking
Security08 Sep 2021 | 5
More than half of companies rethinking back-to-office plans amid variant uncertainty and vaccine mandates – survey
Thought you were all set to return? Yeah, about that
Networks24 Aug 2021 | 92
Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports
That spells trouble for up to one in five workers expected to be WFH
Off-Prem11 Aug 2021 | 98
Security breaches where working from home is involved are costlier, claims IBM report
Great, it's not like employers need more reasons to haul you back to the office
Security28 Jul 2021 | 6
Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work
Column Fortune favours the flexible in the new normal
Offbeat28 Jul 2021 | 98
Cybercriminals took advantage of WFH to target financial services companies, say financial bods
Home Wi-Fi was an obvious target, but evildoers also knew to probe cloudy connections
Security14 Jul 2021 | 6
Pyjama bottoms crew, listen up: In 2022 we'll still be at home
Huge shift in working patterns continues into next year, according to the all-seeing eye of... Gartner
Offbeat23 Jun 2021 | 32
Want to keep working in shorts and flipflops way after this is all over? It could be time to rethink your career moves
Feature Pandemic has opened a can of worms for our work goals with what comes next
Offbeat14 Jun 2021 | 86
Y'all ready to get back to the office this October, Facebook tells staff in the US
Sure, you can apply to work from home in the middle of nowhere, just don't expect Silicon Valley pay
On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 15
Hybrid working? Buckle in, there's no turning back as survey takers insist: You can't make us go back
No, literally, let's make illegal
Offbeat03 Jun 2021 | 74
Back to the office: Workday hiring 20% more Workdayers in anticipation of postponed projects opening up
The desk and chain awaits those extra 2,500 people... the lucky blighters
SaaS27 May 2021 | 2
Just one in 5 Googlers plan to swerve the office permanently after COVID-19
Free breakfast, lunch and dinner? Listening to Ryan Reynolds talk shit? Massages for gratis? Why the hell wouldn't they return
On-Prem06 May 2021 | 15
Does the boss want those 2 hours of your free time back? A study says fighting through crowds to office each day hurts productivity
Never want to return to daily 9-5 regime? Use psychology to baffle higher-ups
Bootnotes26 Apr 2021 | 98
Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess
If only it had a built-in loo and pillow, then we could work 24/7
Bootnotes16 Apr 2021 | 112
Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance?
Poll Little love for a return to the five-days-on-campus week, Blind survey shows
SaaS19 Feb 2021 | 96
Social isolation creates craving in the same brain region as wanting food or addictive drugs, study finds
What do 20 pizzas and five hours of face time with your most boring mate have in common?
Science24 Nov 2020 | 23
Finding remote working a bit of a grind? Microsoft staffers feel your pain
Gloomy workers unlikely to moan about open plan again as office reopening slides to July 2021
Legal23 Oct 2020 | 27
Work life balance? We've heard of it. Pandemic means 9-5 shifts are a thing of the past for many
Will the hardest workers want to go back to the offce for a break?
Legal16 Oct 2020 | 39
Microsoft tells staff work-from-home is now ‘standard’ – with caveats galore
Boss has to agree, home time not to exceed 50 percent and let’s talk about salary if you leave town
Personal Tech12 Oct 2020 | 51
50%+ of our office seats are going remote, say majority of surveyed Register readers. Hi security, bye on-prem
Reader research We asked hundreds of IT decision makers where their priorities lie – here are the results
On-Prem20 Aug 2020 | 49
Google extends homeworking until this time next year – as Microsoft finds WFH is terrific... for Microsoft
You see, there is a COVID-19 silver lining. For employers. For the rest of us, welcome to the machine
Science28 Jul 2020 | 57
You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Fujitsu tells 80,000 of its Japan employees: From now on, you work remotely
Announces plans to close 50% of its Japanese office space by close of 2022
On-Prem06 Jul 2020 | 39
A memo from the distant future... June 2022: The boss decides working from home isn't the new normal after all
Because nobody wants to be the new Yahoo! apparently
Legal19 Jun 2020 | 122
How many? 28 million fewer PCs and tablets to find a home in 2020
Factory closures, surge in remote working and weakened economy all fed into forecasting formula
Personal Tech03 Jun 2020 | 15
Tata Consultancy Services tells staff to go to their rooms and stay there, even after the pandemic passes
COO says plague-time productivity has improved so clients don’t see see WfH as a WtF
On-Prem28 Apr 2020 | 20
Cisco rations VPNs for staff as strain of 100,000+ home workers hits its network
Following the moon to find capacity and sticking to safe sites as Chuck Robbins leads new weekly briefings
Networks02 Apr 2020 | 30
Tech won't save you from lockdown disaster: How to manage family and free time while working from home
Tips from El Reg hack with two decades of WFH experience
Personal Tech21 Mar 2020 | 123
Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves
Eventually, 'customers will stop buying and start preserving capital'
Channel20 Mar 2020 | 118
Surge in home working highlights Microsoft licensing issue: If you are not on subscription, working remotely is a premium feature
Customers on-premises with perpetual licences 'don't have a good story' for remote working
Software20 Mar 2020 | 126
5,000 Virgin Media workers unchained to slog away remotely
Fingers crossed those net connections stay up
On-Prem14 Feb 2012 | 13
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