Coronavirus office closures: the expert guide to working from home

Companies including Google, Twitter and Sony are sending workers home. Here’s how to stay happy, healthy and productive – even if you’re still in your pyjamas

‘Health workers are too scared to enter’: the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela

Young people with HIV in Brazil’s poorest favelas often have no support, but in Boi Malhado, one team is determined to provide vital help

Don’t give up on cash yet: there’s a value to seeing what you spend

Cards and contactless are convenient – but New York is right to fight for cash

Forget the nanny state, here comes the nanny employer

Companies are increasingly offering ‘wellness’ programmes for employees – but there is a thin line between helpful and intrusive

UK supermarkets ‘not transparent enough’ about pesticide use

Information not routinely displayed on labels of food and gardening items, report finds

How can I convince my exhausted colleague to take time off?

He’s working incredibly hard, it’s affecting his health and happiness, and he’ll lose some of his holiday if he doesn’t take it soon. But he won’t do it

‘It’s in complete crisis’ – architects form trade union amid fury and despair over exploitation

Low pay, shocking hours and cut-throat competition spell misery in a profession with few safeguards. We meet the young architects who are fighting back

DIY drugs: should hospitals make their own medicine?

The long read: If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist thinks so

‘You burned my bagel!’: how to let go of a workplace grudge

Ever found yourself hating a colleague for the most trivial of reasons? Of course you have. But with help you can move on …

I returned to uni for freshers’ week 20 years after leaving. Here’s what has changed

There’s more teetotalism – and students are more likely to have a job. As term begins, our writer visits Glasgow, her alma mater, to hear the hopes and fears of four first-years