Tag: EQUIVALENT

German forest fires burn equivalent of 1,771 football pitches in 2023

Forest fires in Germany affected an area equivalent to around 1,771 football pitches in 2023. A total of 1,059 fires were recorded during the year, destroying around 1,240 hectares of forest, according to the Federal Information Centre for Agriculture (BZL) in Bonn. The figures were more than double in 2022, at 2,397 fires and 3,058 […]

Employees are spending the equivalent of a month’s grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

Despite the benefits of remote work for employees, many organizations are abandoning it in favor of returning to the office full-time–or part-time in a hybrid model. A recent survey from BetterUp shows that the number of primarily remote roles has been cut in half–and one out of four organizations cite improved connection and culture as […]