Telecommuting
If you think the roads have gotten busier on your morning commute, you’re not alone. The rate of workers driving to their jobs creeped up last year, as did those who carpool to work by car, truck or van.
Insurance giant Allstate won’t be getting certain incentives from North Carolina that were part of a plan six years ago to add more than 2,200 workers in Charlotte.
Mexico’s Labor Department has issued new rules requiring employers to pay for internet and provide ergonomic chairs for employees working from home.
The tech industry started the year with a wave of job cuts, around 50,000 in January alone, and there doesn’t appear to be any let up this month.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has delayed its requirement that state employees get vaccinated against the coronavirus or undergo weekly tests by more than a month to Oct. 12, the same day telecommuting workers are now scheduled to return to their offices.
SEATTLE (AP) — King County Executive Dow Constantine announced Thursday that he is extending the mandatory work-from-home order for hundreds of county employees through July 5, 2021.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ceri Weber had just begun to defend her dissertation when the chaos began: Echoes and voices interrupted her. Someone parroted her words.