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The Hybrid Office Playbook for Financial Services: How to Design Hybrid Offices to Optimize People and Spaces
Date: August 25, 2025
Hybrid is now the default operating model across financial services. The question isn’t whether to operate hybrid offices—it’s how to design them so people get more done and spaces are used with precision. The firms pulling ahead are treating the office like an instrument: tuning presence, rooms, and workflows with data until collaboration feels effortless and individual productivity stays high....
UK Q2 productivity 0.8% lower than a year earlier
Date: August 14, 2025
LONDON (Reuters) -British output per hour worked in the three months to June was 0.8% lower than a year earlier, the steepest annual decline since the third quarter of 2024, official figures showed on...
Leveraging productivity data: from insight to strategic action
Date: August 5, 2025
Understanding how work gets done is more crucial than ever in a workplace that is being molded by hybrid scheduling, digital collaboration, and increased performance expectations. Companies no longer rely solely on intuition when making judgments. Rather, they are using real-time data to inform more intelligent plans, and productivity monitoring is one of the most effective sources of that data....
Poor UK productivity recovers partially in Q4, ONS data shows
Date: February 18, 2025
(Reuters) - Productivity in Britain's economy, one of its major weak points, recovered partially in the fourth quarter of 2024 but was down compared with a year previously, official data showed on...
Volkswagen CFO: after cost-cutting deal, productivity must go up
Date: January 15, 2025
BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen's chief financial officer said in comments to investors seen by Reuters on Wednesday that the next step to making its German plants competitive was to improve...
Euro zone productivity growth remains weak in Q3, data shows
Date: December 6, 2024
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone productivity growth remained weak in the third quarter despite a modest expansion in the bloc’s economy, continuing a poor run that has lasted years, data from Eurostat showed on Friday. Per capita productivity was unchanged compared to the same quarter a year earlier while it expanded by 0.5% based on...