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WFH & long weekends | Boss claims staff want 'pop star' treatment - does he have a point?

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Workers want to be treated like ‘pop stars’ over their desire to work from home and have shorter working weeks, a chief executive has claimed.

Christian Ulbrich, CEO of property giant JLL, also claimed working from home was “poisoning workplace relations” because it made conflict resolution more difficult.

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