by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
A recent UK study showed the results of working from home during the time period between 2011 and 2020. It looks like remote workers didn’t do too well. Some of the takeaways include the following: People who mainly worked from home were less than half as likely to be...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
Jamie Dimon, the well-respected CEO of JPMorgan, called for his employees to return to the office. This time, it seems real. Dimon previously required his traders, bankers, brokers and research analysts to return to their offices by Sept. 21, 2020, after working from...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
The U.S. is reopening much faster than most people thought possible. Leading corporations, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, have expedited their return-to-office plans. The next big issue that needs to be addressed by companies...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
New York City, the once epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, will open on July 1, said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. After over a year of casualties, deaths, fear and anxiety, the city is coming back. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe television show, de Blasio...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
During the pandemic, Google, along with most other large corporations, told its employees to work from home. An unintended consequence of this remote work trend was the big savings realized by both companies and workers. Bloomberg reported that Google, according to...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
President Joe Biden positioned himself as the champion of the American worker during his campaign, as well as an ardent proponent of unions. On Thursday, Biden’s Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh, told Reuters that gig workers should be treated as employees. This simple...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
Basecamp, a company that offers a collaborative project management tool, found itself at the center of a social media storm this week. In a corporate blog post, CEO Jason Fried wrote that there will be “no more societal and political discussions” on the company...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
It feels like almost overnight the job market started heating up. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, the U.S. Department of Labor and Federal Reserve Bank chair Jay Powell all have pointed toward a strong “Goldilocks economy” and “jobs boom.” It now looks like...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
There has been much coverage of how major corporations are navigating the reopening of the economy and how employees will work in the new post-pandemic environment. There’s been scant talk about what city, state and federal employees will do—up until now. New York...
by Jack Kelly | May 25, 2021 | Forbes Articles by Jack Kelly
FlexJobs, a job site focused on remote work and flexible job opportunities, conducted a survey of over 1,100 parents with children 18 years of age or younger—who live at home—to find out what they’ve experienced during the pandemic. Anyone who has young or teenage...