Working from Home

You've heard of the cost-of-living crisis, now get ready for the cost-of-working crisis

As employers herd staff back to the office with few perks, workers are concerned about what it'll cost them

On-Prem22 Sep 2022 | 116

BT CEO orders staff: Back to the office or risk 'disciplinary action'

Exclusive '3 together, 2 wherever' policy incoming. 'We've lost that deep connection' says boss

Networks21 Sep 2022 | 164

Philippines decides outsourcers need incentives to stick around, after all

Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing

Channel19 Sep 2022 | 4

Red Hat says staff can stay away from the office forever

Buildings need 'a vibe' and desk-free ‘neighborhoods’ to make them fun for those who decide to come in

Off-Prem14 Sep 2022 | 23

Indian services giants fight over moonlighting employees

Asia In Brief PLUS: Trustwave's Singapore owners selling?; Pakistan's suspiciously political internet brownout; Indonesian data leaks; and more!

On-Prem29 Aug 2022 | 10

Microsoft to drop price for Teams Rooms, add free Basic tier for SMBs

Hardware still required – plus tolerance for visiting the office and remote collaboration

On-Prem18 Aug 2022 | 9

Apple to compel workers to spend '3 days a week' in the office

Mandate starts in September, staff say its about 'fear of worker autonomy'

On-Prem16 Aug 2022 | 73

Salesforce to let two-thirds of space in SF high-rise

Office-space-as-a-service suits this cloud giant to a T

On-Prem14 Jul 2022 | 4

Cisco compresses Catalyst switches to compact size

Fanless fun for the whole family (if the supply chain functions)

Networks28 Jun 2022 | 16

Tech companies ready public stances on Roe v. Wade

Some providing out-of-state medical expenses, others spout general pro-choice statements

Personal Tech27 Jun 2022 | 26

Tropical island paradise ponders tax-free 'Digital Nomad Visa'

Live and work in Bali, pay tax at home

Offbeat27 Jun 2022 | 29

Trouble hiring? Consider loosening your remote work policy

We're going hybrid or off-prem to retain and lure staff, say polled managers

On-Prem25 Jun 2022 | 30

Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff

As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?'

SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 72

Giant outsourcer keeps work from home, loses tax breaks. Government says 'good riddance'

Philippines says subsidies inflate profits, not local economy

Off-Prem14 Jun 2022 | 17

Next six months could set a new pace for work-life balance

Poll The only way to ease transition back to office is reduce the time in the office

Personal Tech07 Jun 2022 | 36

Elon Musk orders Tesla execs back to the office

Bosses can always work from home – after they've done a minimum of 40 hours a week on site

Bootnotes01 Jun 2022 | 156

Google opens the pod doors on Bay View campus

A futuristic design won't make people want to come back – just ask Apple

On-Prem17 May 2022 | 20

Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff

Why make us commute all the way into buildings where we're not allowed to talk to each other anyway, workers ask

On-Prem03 May 2022 | 74

Google to invest $9.5b in US offices, datacenters

Tough news for those Googlers still holding out for permanent remote work

On-Prem13 Apr 2022 | 5

Dell trials 4-day workweek, massive UK pilot of shortened week begins

Hopes to tap into pool of tech workers who aren't keen to be tied down for 40 hours per week

On-Prem11 Apr 2022 | 65

NASA: Telework doesn't work when you're building a Moon rover

VIPER mission running late thanks to WfH orders, also bitten by tech supply chain woes

Software07 Apr 2022 | 2

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

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 | 162

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

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 | 5

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 | 73

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