There was a noticable increase in the number of articles about remote and hybrid working over the summer, with at least one media title (Business Post) beginning to grow hostile to the concept of remote working, and now frames access to remote or hybrid working as a perk unique to the public sector.
With the commercial property market teetering on the brink of...well...trouble, it's not surprising there's been a pushback. In today's Irish Times Emmet Malone writes about how "boundaries are still being thrashed out in many workplaces" - ‘If you don’t swipe in, you won’t be promoted.’
Zen
Colleagues, last week we bid a very fond farewell to our friend and colleague Chris Cully. It's not going to be the same around Nerney's Court in her absence, especially at lunchtime in the kitchen, where the lively chat over a pot of freshly-brewed tea and a loaf of batch bread was part of the routine. We wish Chris well and...I could really only think of one song to mark the moment (and to defy today's inclement weather).