Work from home

About 50% of business were unprepared to have their workforce work remotely, and they're scrambling to catch up with panic buying of services and hardware.

Now is an “opportunity to advance the conversation around mental health and well-being,” says Aetna’s head of behavioral health.

New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Americans responded quickly and thoroughly to directions from federal, state and local leaders, to combat coronavirus.

The medical community isn’t sure when the COVID-19 pandemic will end, but a labor attorney says employers need to have office policies in place well beforehand.

Once case numbers become more manageable, the U.S. will move away from self-isolation, and toward containing individual cases. The U.S. will need 100,000 to 300,000 contact tracers to contain the coronavirus.

Cloud-computing companies have been a clear beneficiary of the stay-at-home and social distancing measures to help combat the spread of the virus.

A great redistribution of knowledge workers is afoot, says entrepreneur and founder of Russian Exchange Bank Alex Konanykhin, CEO of TransparentBusiness, who also says the coronavirus pandemic is producing a few winners (Zoom) and a huge swath of economic losers.

The CEO of Perspective Partners shares how software can help answer healthcare and retirement benefit questions during the enrollment process.

While each agency’s policy will be unique, try your best to create guidelines that will empower your employees to maintain productivity and service to prospects and clients.

The shift from office culture to remote work has been challenging for the hardware-focused company with a passion for secrecy.

With so many people working remotely because of the coronavirus, surveillance software is flying off the virtual shelves.

Businesses are struggling to adapt to remote work, according to a new survey by Arizent, the parent company of Employee Benefit News.

Online searches for the term “office chair” increased 150% between March 9 and March 20 as many switch to remote work.

The adjustment to remote work is changing the definition of business attire and some savvy brands are pushing a new type of hybridized clothing that straddles the line between work and home, formal and casual, suits and sweats.

Coworking companies are struggling to adapt while many of their customers consider cancelling contracts or are forced to default.

Be transparent about the challenges you’re facing when you communicate with colleagues and clients and make sure your practice is optimized for a work-from-home situation.

Locales with high concentrations of jobs in industries such as retail and health care could see as much as a 4% decline in their annual growth rate if the shutdowns last just a month.

HR managers can help support employees working remotely by recommending how any workspace can be made safe and comfortable, whether employees are working from their own home office or are making calls from the couch.

Only 42 million out of 144 million U.S. workers could do their jobs at home, forcing many to choose between the fear of getting sick and the fear of being fired.

Almost overnight, the pandemic has created a booming work-from-home economy as tens of millions of Americans are thrust into setting up home offices on the fly.