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- International Workplace
- 21 October 2020
Businesses to reduce carbon emissions through flexible working
UK businesses could benefit from millions of pounds in new savings and dramatically reduce their carbon footprint according to new research from O2. Its new Green Savings Calculator uses details provided by individual businesses, including travel ...

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- International Workplace
- 14 October 2020
New code brings global consistency to facility management procurement
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has launched a new global industry code of practice that sets out high-level steps to bring transparency and consistency to the facility management procurement process. It comes at a time when t...

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- International Workplace
- 14 October 2020
How COVID-19 can offer opportunities for remote working
Working from home (aka ‘remote working’) is opening a world of opportunity. If you’ve ever dreamt of logging onto Teams from a café on Bondi Beach or Zooming from your balcony overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, now might ...

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- International Workplace
- 14 October 2020
Requirements set out for legally-required building safety manager role
The competence requirements for the proposed new role of building safety manager have been set out in a new report, Safer people, safer homes: Building Safety Management. Under new legislation being introduced in the draft Building Safety Bi...

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- International Workplace
- 14 October 2020
No joking matter – vicarious liability before the courts again
The scope of vicarious liability is undoubtedly narrow. Peter Wake, Partner at law firm Weightmans, looks at the impact of recent case law on this complicated area of employment law. In April this year, the Supreme Court (SC) restored some order ...

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- International Workplace
- 14 October 2020
Mental health: the “biggest workforce issue of our time”
A new study by Oracle and Workplace Intelligence of more than 12,000 employees, managers, HR leaders, and C-level executives across 11 countries has found that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased workplace stress, anxiety, and burnout for people a...