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Six reasons why working from home is not all it is cracked up to be

The large-scale move to homeworking is certain to be one legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic: the debate is no longer about whether it will happen but to what extent. In this, the first of three articles, Christopher Lake and Adam Gold look at the claim that working from home is liberating for you as an employee, allowing you to build your work around your life rather than your life around your work. 


The Cummings affair and who owes what to whom

The Dominic Cummings affair has sparked a debate about the nature of our obligation to comply with the lockdown rules and about how far our willingness to comply depends on the willingness of others to do likewise.  Our article seeks to lay bare the underlying considerations in this debate, exploring the difference between horizontal and vertical obligations and between the authority of a rule as it relates to its source and to its content.  


Pay cuts, pay ratios, and moral panic

Reports suggest that more than half of FTSE 100 CEOs have now taken a substantial cut to their base salary in response to the Covid-19 crisis. To date, a select band of university Vice- Chancellors and senior leaders have done the same, with 20% salary reductions fast establishing themselves as the default figure.  In this article we ask: Whose attention are these pay cuts intended to grab, and to what end?