Put safety first. Encourage managers to conduct electronic risk assessments with their teams, to ensure the home workplace is suitable. Make sure all workers know about your health and safety policies. If you supply equipment it must pass relevant safety tests.  Know when to step away from your desk. Be...

As the world shifted to working from home because of the COVID pandemic, living a sedentary lifestyle has become much of a norm. Since people stayed indoors, there has been less time to exercise and stay active.  Unfortunately, living an inactive lifestyle may seem harmless, but it could lead to...

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Widespread working from home has been one of the biggest behavioural changes of 2020, with scores of offices still empty and employees facing months more away from their desks. In efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus back in March, Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised the public to work...

The BBC asked their readers to send in their pictures on the theme of "working at home" during lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus. Here are some of the pictures sent to us from around the world. This picture is of Usha Venkat: "I work in my study...

As the pandemic leaves offices around the world empty, Catherine Nixey of The Economist asks what was the point of them anyway? In the spring of 1822 an employee in one of the world’s first offices – that of the East India Company in London – sat down to write...

Welcome to the FRISKA guide for working from home. Here at FRISKA, we’re well aware of the demands of office workspaces and we want to invite you into the FRISKA family, to understand not only what we know to be true about office spaces, but to talk about the ideas...

Farewell BC (before coronavirus). Welcome AD (after domestication) From The Economist  2nd. June 2020 On march 16th Bartleby left the offices of The Economist to head home. That was the last day when all editorial staff assembled in our London redoubt. And, at the time of writing, no date for a return to...