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A WFH employee in Australia is hitting out at her ex-employer after it tracked how much she was typing — and then fired her

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Employee monitoring appears to be on the rise.

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Radious lets you rent your home to businesses as a coworking space: 'It's like Airbnb and WeWork had a baby'

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Homeowners can rent out their houses to companies in need of coworking spaces using Radious.

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People who choose to work from home are actually less-productive when they do so, new research suggests. An author behind the research explains why.

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A new study on worker productivity found that those who work from home are also likely to be constrained by other responsibilities, like childcare or household duties.

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Return-to-office mandates just got another vote in their favor: A new study says WFH results in 18% less productivity.

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A new study from economists at MIT and UCLA observed that data-entry workers were 18% less productive at home than they were in the office.

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New research finds that fully remote workers are less productive than their in-office counterparts

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More employers are pushing for workers to return to the office in a hybrid role or full-time.

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That's one way to draw people back to the office: Google hotel reportedly touts $99 special to 'make it easier for Googlers to transition to the hybrid workplace'

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Google opened its Bay View campus in May of 2022.

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Lyft's new CEO reversed its WFH policy. Now he says employees should want to come back to the office 'for the snacks.'

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Lyft CEO David Risher said people should want to return to the office "for the snacks," the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Managers say 4-6 pm is now a work 'dead zone.' Employees run errands and take care of kids before logging on later to finish.

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Employees following a "triple peak" workday are signing off early to run errands or do leisurely activities — perhaps a trip to the beach? — before logging on again at night to wrap up their work.

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Canadians and Brits spend the most time working from home, even though Americans want to most, survey shows

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A man in Arlington, Virginia working from home.

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A judge threw out a lawsuit from laid-off Twitter staffers which claimed Elon Musk's cuts unfairly targeted women

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Elon Musk.

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