Work

What is the future of the corporate HQ?

Some employers that are mandating office returns favour retaining their big spaces, while others move to smaller but better-serviced properties

Rich bosses’ isolation from poorer colleagues could come back to bite them

Wealthy managers are increasingly isolated from the less well-off at work and that’s not good news

Party leaders to back incoming minister in Dublin Airport passenger cap row

Seen and heard: airport cap row may soon be resolved, Vit Hit’s UK sales and councils to face crackdown on housing targets

‘Rome is a fantastic city to live in, but it’s very complicated. It’s a mess of a place. Madrid is clean. Everything works’

Wild Geese: Barry Haughian works for Ukrainian telco Tellias in the Spanish capital

AI in the office: Trust gap with staff is a big hurdle for companies

In banking and insurance, 50% of the work that gets done today could actually be executed and completed by technology on its own, Accenture says

Good feedback, bad feedback: companies need to learn the difference if they want staff to learn

When people are shown their failures, they don’t improve

Soft quitting: Why are so many workers emotionally disengaging from their jobs?

Unlike quiet quitters, who can be managed back to productivity, soft quitters have to be convinced the work is worth doing

Office attendance will affect year-end bonus for executives at top bank

Almost five years since Covid-19 pandemic, move seen as latest sign of hybrid working rethink in financial services industry

‘Copenhagen is like Disneyland compared to Munich: moving here immediately resonated with me’

Wild Geese: Caroline Ryan, Copenhagen

‘I could be beside someone doing the same work for more money.’ The plight of section 39 workers

Simon Harris’s interaction with Charlotte Fallon during the general election campaign brought carers’ issues to the fore. Now they are ‘ready to fight’ for equal pay and better funding

Dublin food delivery riders on thefts and attacks: ‘They do it just for fun, it’s horrible’

Delivery riders are struggling with low pay and insufficient working hours, while the risk of attack means they avoid certain areas of the capital altogether

Young people are rejecting work. Why?

An increase in Neets, who are not in education, employment or training, exposes grievances about the labour market

‘Employers can be very creative’: exploitation of migrant workers on the rise

WRC cases taken on behalf of workers are likely to be ‘the tip of the iceberg’, and even in successful cases, nonpayment of awards is a significant issue

WRC ruling is final nail in coffin of the right to remote working

Workers left to balance home and family life, along with the costs, by themselves

An Irish designer making waves in sustainable fashion in Portugal

Wild Geese: Molly Walters, Lisbon

Can I break training contract if employer missed payments?

Employer committed to fund study but has paid only part of the agreed amount; now I want to start a new job

High rental costs mean Dublin ranks in top 10 most expensive cities in Europe

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

‘I told him I can only work Irish school hours’: Fighting for work-life balance in Ireland’s tech sector

Frederic Meyer’s bosses in a US multinational could not let him set an example, so he left

My new year’s resolution? To connect more

The ‘fresh start effect’ is a powerful motivator – but so is a recognition of the paths we have already travelled

Film workers challenge overturning of WRC awards

Labour Court has overturned number of WRC rulings

‘The records sought do not exist’: ‘Golden visas’ granted under €1.25bn scheme but no list of investment beneficiaries

Lack of even a basic list raises questions about how the scheme was monitored

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