Guest Blog: The growth of extreme commuting times puts a strain on health and happiness - by Frances O'Grady - General Secretary - TUC

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Guest Blog: The growth of extreme commuting times puts a strain on health and happiness - by Frances O'Grady - General Secretary - TUC

As autumn starts to bite we may start to feel a bit sorry for ourselves. Many of us are already travelling home from work in the dark, and as the year wears on we will lose the light in the morning as well.

The average two-way home-work journey is 55 minutes per day for UK employees (Source: ONS Labour Force Survey), that’s enough to make most of us grateful by the time that Friday comes around.

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Commute Smart Week Provides a Great Opportunity for Savvy Employers to Think About Workplace Culture and Smarter Working - By David Lennan - Chairman - Work Wise UK

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Commute Smart Week Provides a Great Opportunity for Savvy Employers to Think About Workplace Culture and Smarter Working - By David Lennan - Chairman - Work Wise UK

Here we are again, after a decade of promoting Smarter Working practices and helping hundreds if not thousands of organisations small and large to introduce modern working practices, we still find that many organisations are not embracing all that technology can offer and still require people to be present at their desks, even during Commute Smart Week! 

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Are you a workaholic? - by Richard Morris, UK CEO, at global work space provider Regus

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Are you a workaholic? - by Richard Morris, UK CEO, at global work space provider Regus

We’ve all had ‘one of those weeks’. By a nasty stroke of luck, you’ve got projects overlapping, deadlines looming, a dozen client meetings and a handful of new employees to get up to speed. Before you know it, you’re 70 hours deep and you can’t remember what a good sleep feels like.

But for some people, that’s not a bad week – it’s every week!

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