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A Northwest D.C. restaurant accused of stealing workers’ tips and cheating them out of wages and benefits is paying over $500,000 to settle a wage theft lawsuit filed by the District’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb last year.
Swahili Village, located along M Street south of Dupont Circle, and its owner, Kevin Onyona, have agreed to pay more than $260,000 to 72 restaurant workers. That includes owed wages and damages, according to a news release from Schwalb’s office.
As part of the settlement, the restaurant has to pay more than $197,000 in penalties to the city, and provide documentation to Schwalb’s office for the next three years, proving that its in compliance with the city’s wage and hour laws.
“It is unacceptable, and illegal, for businesses to steal from their hardworking employees, depriving them of the full benefits they have earned and are legally entitled to,” Schwalb said in a statement. “Employers that do so are not only exploiting their workers but are gaining an unfair advantage over their competitors who play by the rules. This is a significant win for dozens of Swahili Village workers who were mistreated and continues our office’s commitment to combating wage theft in the District of Columbia.”
The lawsuit, which Schwalb’s office said started with an employee tip to authorities, alleges that the restaurant participated in “an egregious pattern of wage theft,” paid workers less than minimum wage and didn’t pay them overtime. It also accused the restaurant of not distributing tips or providing sick leave as is required by law.
WTOP contacted the restaurant for comment on the lawsuit.
Rowles Adams, a former Swahili Village bartender, said a few weeks after the restaurant opened in 2020, “there were some people that weren’t getting paid. Some people weren’t seeing all of their money, me included.”
When it was time to get paid, Adams said workers received checks written out by the manager.
“That was the one thing that really stood out to me that was different,” Adams said.
At other restaurants that Adams worked at, employees got training on software used for calculating tips and managing employee hours. At Swahili, Adams said, “We had people to teach us how to use the software, but when it came down to actually using it and recording funds, I don’t think they were using it properly at all. They were just using it to ring in orders and just make the kitchen functional.”
Some workers expressed frustration with the circumstances, but their concerns were brushed aside, Adams said.
During the pandemic, “nothing else was really hiring so I stuck it out for as long as I could,” Adams said.
Adams added that many workers “were in school, or they had different situations going on at home and in their personal life, where they needed this money and it was just never being accounted for.”
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Red Bull has been the dominant force in Formula 1 in recent years, but recently has had to deal with a lot of opposition from McLaren and Mercedes. That makes the various top teams look at innovations from the other with suspicion.
Flexible front wings have been a regular topic of discussion recently, but Red Bull also recently complained about McLaren's brakes, according to Auto, Motor und Sport.
The team from Woking is said to be using extra holes in the brake drums at the front and rear. Teams use sensors to collect information about the temperature of the rims and tires, but Red Bull suspected that McLaren had created an extra cooling hole, which would violate regulations.
According to the publication, the extra hole would give access to a cable for a sensor that measures the temperature inside the brake cylinder aerator.
Red Bull's suspicion was fuelled by the fact that Lando Norris came out very strong in Miami, Imola and Spain, where he kept his tyres alive better than Max Verstappen. Would the information from the holes and sensors help?
The regulations state that sensors may indeed be placed in the brake drums during free practice on Friday, then the holes must be closed on Saturday and Sunday.
According to Red Bull, however, McLaren's holes sometimes remained open during the races, but the FIA did not go along with that.
The motorsport federation checked the McLarens and it turned out that the team had taped off the holes in Austria and Britain.
Whether McLaren did so after Red Bull's complaint or the FIA's checks is not known. The fact that Red Bull has reportedly filed a complaint does show the extent to which the fight has flared up.
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An electric vehicle is seen charging in New Jersey on June 11, 2024. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for NPR
Thinking of taking a road trip in an electric vehicle? Or are concerns about running out of battery power on a long drive keeping you from buying an EV?
Charging infrastructure has improved over the last few years, and newer vehicles are charging much faster than previous generations. But it still matters what you drive, where you're driving and how much you plan in advance.
Road trips can play a disproportionate role in the public conversation about EVs. The vast majority of EV charging happens at home, not at public fast chargers. Many EV-owning households also have a gas or hybrid vehicle they prefer for long trips.
And some EV owners shrug off range anxiety because they simply don't go on many road trips. Ford CEO Jim Farley, in a recent love letter to EVs, wrote that Ford’s research shows half of Americans go on 150-mile-plus drives "four days or fewer per year.” Owning a car that's cheaper and easier 361 days of the year, but a bit of a hassle on your yearly holiday drive, might beat out having the dream road-trip machine.
Still, being able to go on road trips is a priority for many people. Here are some tips on how to make a battery-powered long haul more relaxing.
The 48 single-engine F-35s will replace 36 aging, and non-stealthy, Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters belonging to the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa air base in northern Japan. The single-engine F-16s carry special sensors in pods for detecting enemy radars – and also carry AGM-88 anti-radiation missiles for blowing up the radars or forcing their crews to power them down.
The F-35s won’t need the radar-detecting sensor pods, as their built-in sensors are already highly-tuned for pinpointing enemy radars. The Misawa-bound F-35s might be among the first to get a new version of the AGM-88 that fits inside the stealth fighter’s internal weapons bays, too. Carrying weapons internally preserves the F-35’s clean profile, which is one key to its radar-evading stealth.
The F-35s will be capable of other missions, of course – including air-to-air combat, anti-ship strikes and bombing runs over land – but the 35th Fighter Wing has long focused on defeating enemy air defences so that other US and allied squadrons and wings can bring their own firepower to bear without risking heavy losses. Once such specialist units were known as “wild weasels”: nowadays the mission is known as Suppression (or Destruction) of Enemy Air Defences, SEAD or DEAD. It is the unique US military capability which no other air force, not even Russia’s, really possesses. SEAD/DEAD has arguably won several important past campaigns for the US and its allies.
There are many components to SEAD/DEAD but fighters with sensors and anti-radar weapons are an important one. In boosting the 35th Fighter Wing from 36 old F-16s to 48 new F-35s, the US Air Force is acknowledging the growing danger Chinese air defences would pose to US and allied air operations around Taiwan.
Those defences are especially dangerous for non-stealthy warplanes – including the new F-15EXs the Americans will be assigning to the 18th Wing at Kadena air base in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture. The 36 twin-engine F-15EXs will replace the 50 or so 1980s-vintage F-15Cs that flew from Kadena until last year.
The US Air Force gradually retired the older F-15s as their aging airframes became increasingly unreliable and unsafe to fly. The service partially covered their departure by rotating in squadrons from the mainland United States, but a permanent contingent of fighters and crews has always been the best solution, as the vast reaches of the western Pacific – and the intensive threat from Chinese missiles and jets – demands singular focus and constant training.
Where the old F-15Cs were strictly air-to-air fighters, the new F-15EXs – with their improved sensors and avionics – can attack targets in the air, at sea and on land. The F-15EX is the US Air Force’s newest fighter type – and the first type in the American inventory that’s compatible with the huge hypersonic land-attack missiles the Air Force is developing. Long range, hard-to-defend-against precision strike weapons are another vital part of the SEAD/DEAD toolkit.
To be clear, 84 fighters – however sophisticated – aren’t a lot of fighters in a region teeming with thousands of potential targets. But US commanders don’t expect the crews of those 48 F-35s and 36 F-15EXs to win an air war over Taiwan all by themselves. Their job is to meet the first wave of Chinese forces, buying time for reinforcement squadrons to arrive from North America.
They’re pickets. But they’re also symbols. The Pentagon’s new air power plan “demonstrates the ironclad US commitment to the defence of Japan and both countries’ shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region,” the Pentagon stated.
It’s a commitment that millions of Taiwanese and Japanese people surely hope doesn’t end after the presidential election in the United States in November – an election in which Donald Trump is currently leading. Trump is known to admire authoritarian leaders like China’s Xi Jinping, and once described the Chinese ruler as a “brilliant guy … smart, brilliant, everything perfect”.
It could take years for all 84 new fighters to arrive. A lot could change in the meantime.
If it wasn’t outright unwise for the speakers at Audi Field to play the US Eagles and Scotland on to the field with Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, it was surely tempting fate.
The sizable crowd – 17,418 – which came down to the banks of the Anacostia on a sticky night paid its money and took its chances, sure. So did World Rugby, which put the game on. And the Eagles didn’t score nothing. But the Scots mostly took their own chances, and by and large the Americans did not, and the result was a procession that in the second half, at least, descended slowly into the swamp.
That said, American rugby cannot be said to be in dire straits. MLR, its men’s pro league, is finishing season seven, the women’s game is strong, the global governing body has grand ambitions for the 2031 and 2033 World Cups. This game was meant to be a start, not a means to an end.
After the final whistle the US coach, Scott Lawrence, told reporters: “Our mantra is always, ‘The score doesn’t matter, as long as we get better.’ We’re building towards something. We want to play inspirational. We want to inspire young players that want to be Eagles some day. And I think the players put it all out there.”
The big wing Duhan van der Merwe got the first Scottish try, slipping a tackle rather easily after five minutes of possession, the fly-half Adam Hastings turning down a kickable three points in search of the seven he got. A few minutes of American ball followed but also the first trickle of a stream of American penalties. Scotland advanced, the Eagles defence held and the hosts escaped upfield, only for their own fly-half, AJ MacGinty, to kick for three and miss. Then the Americans conceded another penalty, Hastings kicked to the corner, and after a scrappy lineout the hooker Ewan Ashman drove over. Again, Hastings converted.
The pattern repeated on 26 minutes, Ashman scoring again after another penalty, which this time produced a yellow card for the Eagles prop David Ainu’u, and another Hastings kick to the corner.
The Eagles did get a try. Their own kick-to-the-corner-and-drive didn’t work but the Scotland No 8, Matt Fagerson, came off a scrum, got himself rather splendidly clattered, and saw the ball spill loose. A couple of phases later the Eagles hurled their shock-haired centre, Tommaso Boni, over the Scotland line. The home supporters, most wearing colours of school, college or club, made their appreciation known. MacGinty made it 21-7.
It could’ve been 21-10, had the Eagles full-back Luke Carty’s 55-metre penalty not shaded left of the posts. As it was, after that miss the Eagles trapped themselves in their own 22 with a mix-up, Hastings kept kicking penalties to the corner, and after a lot of heaving and grunting, and prolonged official decision-making, Ashman plopped over for an extremely short-range hat-trick. Hastings made it 28-7 at half-time.
The Scotland scrum-half George Horne got the first try of the second half, getting on the end of a break by his full-back, Kyle Rowe, after the Eagles scrum conceded a penalty and field position. Hastings converted again.
With 25 minutes left, the Eagles removed their front row. The new props and hooker packed down, pushed too early and saw the whistle blown again. It was turning into the sort of night when replacements run on at regular intervals, rhythm drops away and fans play up for the cameras.
It was humid as hell, so slips and drops were explicable. The Eagles brought on a youthful debutant in the second row: Saia Uhila of the Utah Warriors, positively frolicsome at 37 years old. With 10 minutes left, the crowd ventured its first chant of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” They saw their team’s scrum wheel and Scotland win the put-in.
Still, Scotland hadn’t scored in 20 minutes. It looked like the drought would break but Kyle Steyn dropped the ball on a kick-through with the line begging. Even the home fans groaned at that. They groaned again when Fagerson made up for his error for the American try by controlling the ball at the back of a galloping scrum for an old-fashioned pushover try. Hastings stayed perfect off the tee, making it 42-7.
It started raining, not a surprise under skies murkier than a lobbyist’s conscience. Behind the western stand, the Washington monument receded into the gloom.
In the final analysis, a 23-man Eagles squad containing 20 players employed in MLR held up well, improved fitness and fight on show. They faced a strong Scotland squad too, 13 of coach Gregor Townsend’s 23 coming from Glasgow, last month winners of the United Rugby Championship, stunningly in South Africa.
Lawrence said: “For American rugby players as a whole, I think it shows that we can compete at that level with a right amount of integration of the national teams into the condition levels that are above the professional game here. So it’s really about working together with MLR.”
Assessing Uhila and others taking their first steps in Test rugby, Lawrence pronounced himself pleased. He picked out Conner Mooneyham, a wing made in northern California and at Life University in Georgia, now employed in Seattle.
The game ended with the Eagles battering the Scotland line but being held up and out.
Townsend told the press it was “a frustrating game to watch”, wryly noted that most of the penalties were conceded by Americans, and said: “I think we would have wanted to have kicked on and just been a bit more accurate in that second half.”
All in all, though, he surveyed a job well done. The Scots now go south, to face Chile and Uruguay.
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Bobby Pierce continued to prove why he is one of the top dirt Late Model drivers in the country through the weekend in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The Oakwood, IL native picked up his eighth World of Outlaws CASE Construction Equipment Late Models victory after a duel between fellow Illinois drivers Brandon Sheppard, of New Berlin, Dennis Erb Jr, of Carpentersville, and Brian Shirley, of Chatham.
Beginning the night from the second row, Pierce got by Shirley on the high side of the track while he rode behind Erb and Sheppard in his No.32 Low Voltage Solutions machine.
Sheppard prevailed against Erb on the high side with Pierce following the tire tracks of the No.B5 Longhorn Chassis to get by Erb.
Pierce began to pick up forward movement on Sheppard as the race progressed. His first attempt to pass Sheppard was blocked by a lapped car in Pierce’s line and forced him to gather the car back up for a second chance.
His second chance to take the Feature lead proved to be a success when Sheppard jumped the cushion in Turns 1 and 2, allowing Pierce to get a run on him on the bottom of Turn 3 and completing the pass for the lead.
Pierce expanded the distance to Sheppard to over three seconds while searching for ways to manuever around the packs of lapped cars competing around him.
Conquering the northeastern swing with ease, the “Smooth Operator” got his 26th Series triumph and became the first driver since Sheppard in 2020 to win four consecutive races.
“That track was tough tonight,” Pierce said. “I kept thinking if we made the right tire choice again because Brandon was on a completely different tire. But, I could tell he was driving hard and I wasn’t pushing as much as he was. So, it had me a little worried but he was getting tight and I was cutting through the corner pretty good. That’s when my chance came and got around him through the slide.
“It was a fun race to have the bottom and top so when you got into a battle, it was hard for me to pass a guy like Chub Frank around the bottom. The track really transitioned there and it was nice to have a track that moves around like that.”
Sheppard picked up the second-place result, his third in four races. With the performance displayed, “B-Shepp” grew his lead in the Series standings to 52 points over Mooresville, NC driver Nick Hoffman.
“It was tough out there,” Sheppard said. “We were rolling good in the first half, but once the fresh dirt went away I was super free. The changes we made to the car just did not activate when it got slick so it hurt me there. Overall, it was a pretty good night. I’m getting tired of finishing second, but you can’t complain about finishing second. Bobby’s the best in the country so we gotta step up our game.”
Marshalltown, IA driver Ryan Gustin finished the night with his fourth third-place finish in the last five races. Rolling off the Feature from a sixth-place starting spot, “The Reaper” made steady gains through the 50 laps to end the weekend a podium finish in every PA-OH event.
“We faded pretty bad late in the run,” Gustin said. “Those guys could take off and we couldn’t, it just wasn’t our night. It’s nice to be on the podium for sure, but we’re here to win. We didn’t come to run second or third, we just gotta get our car better, that’s really all there is to it.”
Shirley finished fourth, and Brandon, FL driver Kyle Bronson solidified the night’s top-five results from the Hartford, OH track.
RECAP NOTES:
Dirt King Simulator Hottest Hot Lap: Ryan Gustin
Simpson Quick Time Award: Bobby Pierce
Heat Race Winners: Bobby Pierce, Brian Shirley, Ryan Gustin
Last Chance Showdown Winner: Chub Frank
Bilstein Pole Award: Dennis Erb Jr
Fox Factory Hard Charger: Nick Hoffman
Up Next: The World of Outlaws CASE Late Models return to Illinois for the second time in 2024 for the 34th Annual Prairie Dirt Classic from Fairbury Speedway on Friday and Saturday, July 26-27. The top dirt Late Model drivers in the country will compete for a $50,000 payday and add their name to the historic list of winners in the event.
For more information on the event and the remaining 2024 World of Outlaws CASE Late Models schedule, CLICK HERE.
If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision.
CASE Late Model Feature (50 Laps): 1. 32-Bobby Pierce[3]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 3. 19R-Ryan Gustin[6]; 4. 3S-Brian Shirley[4]; 5. 40B-Kyle Bronson[10]; 6. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[1]; 7. 97-Cade Dillard[8]; 8. 19-Dustin Sorensen[13]; 9. 16-Tyler Bruening[5]; 10. 1*-Chub Frank[19]; 11. 44-Dave Hess Jr[11]; 12. 9-Nick Hoffman[23]; 13. 02-Michael Norris[9]; 14. B1-Brent Larson[16]; 15. 22*-Max McLaughlin[21]; 16. 97JR-Cody Overton[12]; 17. 14W-Dustin Walker[17]; 18. 1Z-Logan Zarin[18]; 19. J4-John Garvin Jr[7]; 20. 12B-Andy Boozel[15]; 21. 217-Eric Wilson[24]; 22. 1C-Alex Ferree[20]; 23. 0-Ryan Scott[22]; 24. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[14]
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Matt Wallace and the author looking over a putt at the Genesis Scottish Open.
Darren Riehl
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — I arched my back against the hard plastic back of seat 31A and listened to the hinge squeal again. It was sometime late in the evening on Delta Airlines Flight 208, and reality was beginning to set in.
The following day, Tuesday, was nearing sooner than any of the hundred or so seated around me wanted to admit, barreling down upon us like our aircraft on the gray-black clouds below.
And me?
I was screwed.
In a few hours, we would all land in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the wee hours of the morning, and though I had just gone to bed back home on the tarmac in New York, there would be no time for further napping. The second our wheels touched down, my marathon would begin: first in a taxi from the airport to my hotel in Edinburgh to drop my bags, then in a second taxi from the hotel to the host of this week’s Genesis Scottish Open, the Renaissance Club, and finally with my first 18-hole round of golf in two full months, conveniently contested alongside a pair of professional golfers, in front of a gaggle of my peers in the working press and on the tournament staff, and at a golf course in championship condition on the eve of hosting a PGA Tour event.
If I was lucky, I’d manage to grab a warmup swing or two before play began. But if those gray-black clouds beneath our aircraft really did speak to the weather down below, well, I’d better figure out the no-show policy.
As perhaps you’ve pieced together by now, I was preparing to play in my first-ever pro-am in the hours preceeding the Scottish Open, my tee time secured by the folks at J. Lindeberg. And though my game was bad and my logistics terrible, there was a more immediate issue staring me in the neck pillow from the economy cabin of Flight 208: sleep, or more specifically, my lack of it.
The flight was six hours long, which meant I had about as much time to find some semblance of REM before the marathon began in earnest. As I listed off again in seat 31A, the thoughts I’d ironed out on the range the night earlier began to swirl: short swing, tuck the elbow, tilt the shoulders.
If you think it’s hard to sleep on a plane, try doing it the night before a tee time with the pros.
Half of life is just showing up, and as it turns out, that counts the same when you’re flying in from a different country. I ripped out to the golf course as soon as I could on Tuesday morning, but after arriving on-site and getting changed, I realized I’d missed my tee time by 10 minutes.
Thankfully, my playing partners hadn’t bothered to wait up. They got started as I slipped my golf shoes back on, resolving to meet me on the 11th tee and even draining a birdie putt on the 1st to get our round rolling in earnest.
My front-nine playing partner, JL ambassador and DP World Tour pro Todd Clements, was plenty friendly about the whole ordeal when we finally met from just off the 11th tee box (we started on the 10th). He was stunned I’d even bothered to show up for the tee time.
He chuckled as I frantically stretched and shook my sleepy limbs to life from off the 11th tee box.
“You’re looking nice and warm,” he said.
My caddie — fellow GOLF.com coworker and co-conspirator Darren Riehl — was less forgiving.
“This one’s pretty simple,” Darren said as I stared out at the paper-thin 11th fairway, a grin spread across his face. “Just hit it straight.”
Yep, this is the sorta thing you’d imagine you’d do before playing a round. But imagine my surprise when I realized just steps from the 11th tee that the day called for gale-force winds and sideways rain. Coming from 90 degrees and sticky in New York, I hadn’t bothered (or cared) to look at the forecast in East Lothian for my pro-am day. Go figure: I spent the rest of the day clinging to my new sweatshirt and rain jacket for any semblance of warmth.
Our pro-am was a modified-scramble format, meaning that we could choose a tee shot from any member of the group and play our own ball into the hole from there. Unlike previous scrambles I’d played, all birdies carded by the group counted toward our overall score.
This would’ve been great to know before I teed off, but I hadn’t bothered to ask in my jetlagged haze. Truth be told, I didn’t learn the scoring portion of the event until the next day.
I am embarrassed to admit this to you, dear reader, but it helps to explain some of what came after.
Perhaps it was explained in the pre-pro-am meeting. Perhaps it’s somewhere in my email inbox. But I truthfully had no idea how many shots I was getting when I stepped on the 11th tee, and I still don’t know how many potential birdies I left behind. Blech.
Clements had a great sense of pace and direction around the greens, which made him a useful sounding board for breaks I was still trying to learn.
Matt Wallace, another JL ambassador who joined our group on the back nine, was even more technical. An aside: His bone-dry sense of humor was well-appreciated.
You’d be surprised what you can learn from a pro golfer when the barrier of the ropeline is removed. Wallace, I learned, has some golf-media experience of his own — having served as one of the BBC’s on-course analysts during the Ryder Cup last September.
“I’d like to play in the thing,” he told me. “But I really loved broadcasting it.”
He’s also a big wine drinker, having stopped by a famed Napa vineyard phonetically identical to my last name earlier this year. (Colgin.)
I couldn’t tell if Darren was trying to psyche me out when he told me I was lined up 20 yards left of the line he’d given me on my tee ball. I swung at it anyway and, unsurprisingly, hit it 20 yards left of my line.
I listened to his advice on every hole the rest of the way.
Darren, it turns out, was a good caddie.
Believe it or not, it’s easier to score when you hit the fairway. It’s not guaranteed, of course, as our group learned. But it is helpful. And unless you have a very long hitter as your group’s pro, odds are good you’ll have a better look from the amateur tee shot.
Like, perhaps, a look at net-eagle from 10 feet off 18th green. And then the ensuing 4-footer for net-birdie. That would really suck to miss.
Particularly when they’re telling you your group is DFL in the pro-am. It won’t help morale, and you’ll still be tired.
Not saying I know what that feels like, or whatever.
You might never be back here, after all, and it is pretty cool to be walking the fairways alongside some of golf’s best.
The story is usually better than the golf. In fact, it almost always is. Grab a photo or two. The memories will last far longer than the cold.
(Oh, and a bonus tip: The caddie bib name is removable. Take it with you.)
After reaching its peak demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of available remote jobs has definitely dropped. Many, if not most CEOs have called their employees back to the office, citing reduced collaboration and a drop in productivity, not to mention empty office spaces that continue to be on company dime.
If you're already holding down a remote job but know that management will soon send you back to the office, here are four tips you can use to keep working remotely in 2024.
It’s easy to see why productivity is the biggest concern for CEOs who want their employees back onsite. While remote monitoring tools are available, they often come with several disadvantages that can complicate their effectiveness. Besides making employees feel like they’re under constant surveillance, they can also produce misleading data that favors activity over results.
So, if you want to keep your job, it’s important to demonstrate that you’re equally, if not more productive, as a remote employee than if you had to report to the office.
I suggest providing detailed reports of your work. Remember to highlight your achievements and demonstrate how your remote setup contributes to your efficiency. Regularly sending quick emails or Slack messages updating your supervisors on your progress is also a good idea.
The key here is to report both activity and results. You want to show that you’re always where you’re supposed to be during work hours and that you’re getting things done with minimal supervision.
Additionally, make sure to ask for feedback and be open to it. This shows that you are engaged, committed to improvement, and willing to adapt to the needs of the team and the company.
Remote roles might be on the decline, but companies looking for remote workers do still exist. This is especially true in tech, digital marketing, e-commerce, customer service, and other industries that found success with remote working during the pandemic.
So, even if you’re happy with your current role, make it a point to check the job market and apply for remote positions periodically. This way, you can use your other job offers to demonstrate that your skills and expertise are still in demand, which puts you in a position to negotiate with your current employer.
Since the goal is to keep your current role, I would recommend approaching this discussion tactfully. A good rule of thumb is to frame the discussion in a way that highlights your value and dedication to your current employer.
For example, you can say that while you have received attractive offers from other companies, you want to stay because you are invested in the company’s vision and you enjoy your work there. This allows you to reinforce your worth while also showing loyalty, which may make your employer more willing to consider your preferred work arrangement.
Some companies will be insistent on their return-to-office mandates, so consider proposing a hybrid work arrangement as a compromise. A hybrid model, which involves splitting your time between the office and working remotely, allows you to enjoy at least some of the benefits of remote work while satisfying the
company’s need for in-person presence.
For example, if you’re a middle manager, your team may benefit from having you around at least during the busiest days of the week for face-to-face meetings and direct supervision. Your presence in the office may improve team cohesion and productivity when it counts, while remote days can help you manage personal tasks and focus on deep work without office distractions.
You can even suggest a trial period to show the advantages of such an arrangement. This way, you have the chance to prove your case and clearly demonstrate why your company should let you work remotely at least some of the time.
When proposing this arrangement, be sure to communicate your desire to find a solution that works for both you and the company. While you will always want to emphasize your value to the company, it’s also best to be seen as a flexible team player with every intention of contributing to the organization’s success.
Perhaps the best strategy that you can use to retain your remote role is to tie it together with how it’s going to contribute to the company financially. It’s already a given that hiring new staff costs more than retaining existing employees, so you want to show that you’re a valuable member of the organization whose absence will be missed by highlighting your positive contributions.
Next, it’s a good idea to look at factors like cost savings. Retaining remote staff can mean saving on utilities like electricity, heating, and cooling expenses, especially if a sizable chunk of the workforce is working from home.
If your company is big on environment and corporate social responsibility, then this is another angle that you can use. Besides cost savings, working from home allows you to reduce carbon emissions associated with commuting and powering an entire office building. Even if only some staff are working remotely, less foot traffic still means reduced environmental impact overall.
At the end of the day, it’s best to communicate openly to your management about your intentions to continue working remotely. Be honest about your reasons, whether they involve personal productivity, work-life balance, or cost savings.
If you can, present any data or feedback that supports your case, such as improved productivity metrics and even personal sentiments from your team. This way, you can put yourself in the best position to negotiate with your company, and hopefully never have to spend two hours on grueling commutes again. Good luck out there!
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America is strengthening one of its most powerful air-power tools in the Western Pacific. Hopefully.
The US Air Force intends to deploy 48 new Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters and 36 even newer Boeing F-15EX fighters to Japan in the near future, reversing years of cuts to USAF force structure in the region – and positioning American pilots to challenge Chinese ones in the early hours of a possible war over Taiwan.
“The modernisation plan, which will be implemented over the next several years, reflects over $10 billion of capability investments to enhance the US-Japan alliance, bolster regional deterrence and strengthen peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region,” the Pentagon announced earlier this month.