The FINANCIAL — Intense and persistent buyer demand is keeping the time on market for houses at incredible lows and pushing prices ever higher above 2019, according to Zillow’s Weekly Market Report. Sales remain high above last year and are expected to stay
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The FINANCIAL — Almost two-thirds of 140,000 employees in Sri Lanka’s leading companies are struggling to meet personal and family financial obligations due to the impact of COVID-19, reveals a new report. The report, Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Employment in the
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The FINANCIAL — The coronavirus pandemic has affected U.S. workplaces like nothing else in modern history, including high unemployment, the shuttering of businesses, and the shift of many workers to off-site, remote work. Gallup has been tracking full- and part-time U.S. workers’
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The trend of remote working was already on the right before this year. But since the pandemic has closed down many offices, that home working trend has been accelerated. As a result, many of us who weren’t working from home before are
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For many of us, working from home is new. We’d never considered it before COVID-19 forced our workplaces to abandon more traditional working environments to keep us safe. Fortunately for many our growing use of the internet and cloud-based services meant that
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The FINANCIAL — Google became the first huge U.S. company to commit to the year-long work from home plan. Google previously said that the most employees would be working from home through the end of the year, but today it was announced that
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The FINANCIAL — Microsoft’s chat and communications tool, Microsoft Teams, is down as thousands of workers started to sign into the service in an attempt to work remotely due to coronavirus pandemic. Connectivity issues affected people in the UK, Spain, France and
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