BIT·Mar 1, 2022Tackling long hours culture and presenteeismThe pandemic has dramatically shifted ways of working, with 57% of employees now wanting either full time home working or ‘hybrid working’ — where they are in the office for some of the week and at home for the remainder. At the same time, working hours have increased for remote…Health4 min readHealth4 min read
BIT·May 24, 2021How many days should we work from home after COVID-19?Before the pandemic, only around 5% of UK employees worked entirely remotely. In the first lockdown this rose to 33% and 54% of UK employees are working remotely to some extent in April 2021. Many affected organisations are now thinking about next steps for when the requirement to ‘work from…Work Life Balance5 min readWork Life Balance5 min read
BIT·Mar 8, 2021How to deliver more flexible jobs and applicationsFindings from 20 million job applications — one of the biggest experimental social policy trials ever published With almost 40% of employees working from home this year, remote working and other forms of flexibility have become the norm and myths about productivity losses have started to evaporate. 2020 has given many the opportunity for a more flexible working pattern — and the appetite for flexibility hit new…Jobs6 min readJobs6 min read
BIT·Feb 1, 2021Changing truck driving behavior one mile at a timeIt would take planting over half a billion acres of forest to offset the amount of CO2 emitted in a year by trucks in the United States. In 2018 alone, medium- and heavy-duty U.S. trucks consumed 43.6 billion gallons of fuel. In the same year, transportation was the highest producer…Economy4 min readEconomy4 min read