Aisling O’Reilly, Projects Coordinator (Energy) asks: what is the impact of homeworking on our carbon emissions and will the future of work be better or worse for our planet? The past 19 months have changed the way we work forever. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the majority of us to work from home and overall, we […]

It is remarkable how quickly and effectively we all managed to transition to home-working at the start of Pandemic back in Spring 2020. A minority of Finance colleagues had previously experienced working from home and the concept of running high volume transaction processing teams remotely challenged our quite traditional mind-sets. We have, though, managed to […]

Dr W. Victoria Lee Lecturer in Architecture & Environment Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA) Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) At the beginning of the pandemic, the advice from the government was that anyone who can work from home must do so. Eighteen month on, while we have moved beyond Level 0, the […]

Sharing Your Experiences If there is a message to come out of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is the value of connection and simple human exchanges for our mental health and wellbeing in the face of global trauma. Maintaining close connections online with those we work with has given us a sense of grounding at a […]