Insperity

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If you’re going to ask them to give this up for at least a few days per week, you should have a compelling reason for them to come into the office. Gently remind employees about loud music and pungent food smells, for example. What you can get away with at home may not fly in the office!)

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Work Life

JULY 19, 2024

Fast Company recently wrote about the rise in “coffee badging,” the practice of people making an appearance in the office (long enough to just grab a coffee) to comply with company return-to-office policies.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 13, 2024

The Telecoms giant’s Movers Index suggest that around 40 percent of firms now require five-day-a-week office work. Meanwhile, 92 percent of companies had some kind of mandatory in-office policy. Wednesday remains the top day for office work, with about three quarters of office workers coming in for the midweek.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The vouchers were typically given to employees who worked at smaller offices without a cafeteria, enabling them to order food while at work. Meanwhile, Google has pulled back on employee perks like fitness classes and office supplies, even replacing laptops and other equipment less frequently.

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Envoy

AUGUST 17, 2023

Increase operational efficiency while reducing costs: By streamlining your company’s day-to-day workplace operations—from food and beverage services to maintenance and security processes—you can save considerable time and money. Because employee attendance and workplace data have a symbiotic relationship.

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Condeco Software

JULY 19, 2022

The multinational food processing and commodities trading corporation has 300 manufacturing sites that need to staff grain silos and processing plants. The interesting part is how different people’s policies are for what they call hybrid, and how they make it work. The result: Open jobs.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 2, 2022

First, though, if you’re saying that the receptionist takes time off but doesn’t charge it to her PTO balance, that’s not illegal (the law leaves stuff like that up to employers) but it’s presumably against your office policy and someone can require her to use real time off for it.

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