By Andy Medici The disconnect on salary expectations between employees and employers has been an ongoing issue since the pandemic. With salaries shifting due to the softening job market, that challenge is likely to linger — and remote work is likely to be a pivot point. That’s according to Robert Half’s 2025 Salary Guide, which found candidates who […]
By JLL In the past 12 months, Boston has emerged as the top major market in the United States for workers returning to the office. According to foot traffic data from Placer.AI, office attendance in Boston has increased by 10.3% during this period, marking a significant improvement from a year ago when the city lagged in […]
By Joanne Drilling June was a watershed moment for post-pandemic office attendance. That’s according to the Office Building Index from location intelligence software company Placer.ai, which found the national average for office attendance was down only 29.4% compared to June 2019. Placer.ai’s data was based on foot traffic analytics from commercial office buildings in major metro […]
By Marq Burnett As the hybrid era ramped up after the pandemic, experts warned that proximity bias would be difficult to avoid. Now that employers are in the midst of their hybrid models — and some are even moving past them — new data suggests fears about proximity bias, or the tendency to gravitate toward employees who are physically […]
By Jane Margolies When Jack Welch, the longtime chief executive of General Electric, presided over a global headquarters on a sylvan expanse in Fairfield, Conn., in the 1980s and ’90s, he probably did not envision college students streaming into its two pristine office buildings. But on a recent morning, students at Sacred Heart University headed to classrooms on floors […]
FEATURED FACULTY Martine Haas AUTHOR Angie Basiouny Hybrid work is here to stay. That’s the prediction from Wharton management professor Martine Haas, who was asked to share what she thinks will be the biggest workplace trend of 2023. Although the mix of remote and in-person work can be challenging, she said, hybrid has emerged as […]
By Anissa Gardizy & Catherine Carlock Firms that signed big leases right before COVID are trying to design an office worth coming back to. After repeated false starts during the pandemic for returning to the office, the future of in-person work for white-collar professionals around Boston is becoming slightly more clear. In many industries, the […]
