Tag: Work

The Colombo Bird Park project in Madiwela was inaugurated by State Minister of Urban Development Nalaka Godahewa yesterday (28).

Bahrain has indefinitely suspended giving work permits to people from coronavirus red list countries such as India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, a representative of the Labour Market Regulatory Authority told The National on Sunday.

Facebook on Wednesday said it will give employees the option of sticking with remote work for the long term, even offering to help some interested in moving to other countries.

A special Police operation is to be launched to monitor those violating the quarantine law by misusing permits issued to employees of essential services to travel during the islandwide travel restriction imposed in Sri Lanka.

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Google's Fiona Cicconi wrote to company employees. She announced that Google was bringing forward its timetable of moving people back into the office.

The upheaval in global labour markets triggered by the coronavirus pandemic will transform the working lives of millions of employees for good, policymakers and business leaders told a Reuters virtual forum on Tuesday.

October 28 - Any remote worker can tell you how office demands have invaded the home in 2020 and started creeping into every corner of the day. But Jessica DeGroot is no ordinary worker. She is an expert in work-life balance as head of the consultancy ThirdPath Institute. “Work was taking over entirely, and I was becoming less and less ...

October 15 (Reuters) - Dubai has launched a new programme that enables overseas remote-working professionals and their families to live in Dubai while continuing to serve their employers abroad, state news agency WAM said on Wednesday. Residence for foreigners in Dubai has thus far been mainly linked to employment in the region, with workers sponsoring families. “The program allows people ...

May 13 (BusinessInsider) - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told employees in an email on Tuesday that they would be allowed to work from home indefinitely, even after COVID-19 shutdowns end. Dorsey also said Twitter's offices wouldn't be reopened until September at the earliest, BuzzFeed News first reported. Twitter told employees to start working from home in March, but the offer doesn't extend ...