In this report, we highlight notable companies leaving Chicago since 2020 and why. You’ll find every public announcement by businesses stating they’ve moved out of Chicago as well as companies threatening to move. Despite lockdowns being lifted over a year ago, Chicago’s office space remains the emptiest on record. On top of that, even the occupied buildings aren’t being used. The Windy City’s “office vacancy…
Here are 120 companies with the best maternity leave. To qualify for the list, a company needs to offer at least 12 weeks of maternity leave. You’ll see some companies offer up to 52 weeks, though. If you’d like to download the full database of 120 companies with great maternity leave, click here. Use the links below to navigate to a specific group: View the…
UPDATE: Caterpillar Inc. (enterprise-wide) mandated 5-day RTO on April 9 with a start date of June 2. Read the full memo here. I received an email from a Caterpillar employee stating this: “Caterpillar Resource Industries has mandated 5 day/week return to office for all employees beginning Feb 1, 2025. It will be closely tracked and employees that do not comply will receive a ‘does not meet…
Article Updated: January 10, 2025 On January 8, 2025, Home Depot shared internally a new return-to-office policy: Employees working within 50 miles of the headquarters in Atlanta must return to the office full-time starting on June 2, 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about Home Depot’s RTO policy. Home Depot’s Return To Office Policy [Jan 2025] Notice Date: January 8, 2025 Return To Office Date:…
To highlight some good excuses to miss work on short notice, we dug through some earlier posts about leaving work early, missing work, and reasons to work from home. We found 12 good excuses to call off work last minute, and organized them into two categories: The best last-minute examples that never fail Notifications you can condense into a quick text message Some will work…
My wife and I have worked remotely together for almost a decade. Each time we choose a new place to visit/work, we balance several factors like Airbnb options, flight prices, cafes, cost of living, and more. It sparked an idea. Remote workers need an unbiased list of the best US cities for remote work (based on real data). That’s what you’ll find below….
On September 16, 2024, Amazon issued its sixth publicly-shared return-to-office (RTO) policy. But on December 16, 2024, Business Insider reported that Amazon may not have enough space for some employees in some locations. Here’s everything you need to know about Amazon’s RTO policy. Latest Amazon RTO Policy September 2024: According to CNBC, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a new memo instructing corporate employees to…
Here is a hybrid work policy template you can customize in Google Docs. Edit the text, input your company and policies, and download the document in Word or as a PDF. There’s no question that hybrid work is having a moment. Because it balances working in-office with working at home, it is an attractive alternative for companies that want to be more flexible in their…
This is an exhaustively researched list of the biggest companies that only hire remote workers. Every company on this list has 1,000+ employees and is classified as either fully remote or remote-first in our remote company database. I created this research report for people who are experiencing the following: You are looking for companies hiring remote workers but you’re sick of the fake remote jobs,…
Many RTO announcements are met with public employee backlash. And a few recent surveys show the same. A Gartner survey of 2,080 knowledge worker employees from May through June 2023 found the following: Intent to stay among knowledge employees surveyed was 8% lower with strict RTO mandates Intent to stay among high-performing employees surveyed was 16% lower Intent to stay among millennial employees surveyed was…