The new workplace: The travel and hospitality industries are shifting gears to accommodate a new type of visitor: the 9-to-5 worker.
Wunderman Thompson Intelligence
Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity: Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated biodiversity losses. However, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will drive an increase in the production of many metals, creating new mining threats for biodiversity.
Nature Research
Beware the ‘work from the wilderness’ movement: Silicon Valley’s evangelists are using COVID as an excuse to work from remote locations. Will it last, asks Danny Fortson.
Say ‘recession’ and watch us flock back to the office: As job losses increase, so too will workers’ desire to be seen at their desks. Yet this can harm not only productivity but mental health, warns Cary Cooper, the man who coined the term ‘presenteeism’ in the 1980s.
Cary Cooper
From Fisker to Nikola, the electric challengers speeding up behind Tesla: Inspired by Elon Musk, a fleet of new car start-ups are spreading hope — and hype.
The Times
BP’s Looney stakes future on producing less oil: New chief seeks to convince investors the push into renewables will pay off.
FT
The single most important thinking skill nobody taught you: Being flexible and weighing the options you ultimately won’t take is more beneficial than you may realize.
Thomas Oppong
