Housing Crisis The Pandemic Has Emptied Out Office Buildings. What Happens Now to All That Space? What office life looks like after the pandemic is still an open question. But real estate experts have no doubt there’s going to be a surge in empty commercial real estate. In many cities, developers say some of the buildings can be redesigned to help address the affordable housing crisis. The practice is called “adaptive reuse” and it’s been used...
Meghan Markle Meghan Markle's Ordeal Highlights the Bias Black Women Face at Work The emotional struggle Meghan Markle detailed in her explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey triggered a conversation among Black women about the bias they experience in the workplace around the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork. Christina Coleman, a communications strategist, joined LX News host Ashley Holt to discuss why this is such a common struggle for Black women and how their white co-workers can...
workplace culture How to Avoid a Tom Cruise-Style Workplace Meltdown in the Age of COVID-19 Tom Cruise was reportedly caught on set yelling at two crew members for breaking COVID-19 pandemic protocols. Here are some tips to avoid a “Tom Cruise moment” as you navigate the new safety rules at your workplace.
bermuda COVID-19 Made My Office Irrelevant, So I Worked From a Tropical Island More than 500 visitors have taken advantage of Bermuda’s “residential certificates,” allowing them to work from the island for up to a year, while also enjoying many of the perks of being a Bermudian citizen.
bermuda Ever Wanted to Work From a Tropical Island? For Some, Now Is the Perfect Opportunity Bermuda, Barbados, Aruba and Jamaica are some of the countries offering “digital nomad” programs for international workers who want to ride out the pandemic abroad. NBCLX’s Noah Pransky gave it a try.
working from home How to Ask Your Boss to Help Cover Your Work-From-Home Costs If you’re among the millions of Americans now working from home, you may find that the costs of your home office can add up. An economist and professor at Rutgers University, William M. Rodgers III, has some tips for how you can ask your boss to chip in.
the future City Life After the Coronavirus Pandemic May Never Be the Same COVID-19 changed life in cities almost overnight. Maybe the most drastic shift came from the closure of office buildings and the shift to work-from-home lifestyles. Suddenly, a major incentive of living in a city — proximity to jobs — had vanished. Will an exodus to small towns change urban living forever?
workplace culture Why One Third of Black Workers say Office Discrimination is Still a Major Concern A new report from the Society For Human Resource Management shows one third of Black workers feel undervalued in the workplace compared to 18 percent of white workers. Johnny C. Taylor Jr., the president of SHRM joined NBCLX to discuss further how the American workplace continues to wrestle and struggle with racism.
workplace culture Why Corporate America Needs a ‘Culture Check' About Racism in the Workplace Many companies have been tweeting support of Black Lives Matter, but one in four companies still has an all-white executive suite. Jamillah Bowman Williams, an associate professor at Georgetown Law, says companies need to do a “culture check” and talk directly to their black employees about racism in the workplace.
