Napoleon Dynamite
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Done it for over 2 year now and the office environment is a big miss
However if I went into an office I know after half an hour I’d be wanting to wfh again
Will companies want workers to work at home when covid has disappeared?
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Done it for over 2 year now and the office environment is a big miss
However if I went into an office I know after half an hour I’d be wanting to wfh again
My latest office chair cost the company around £800, and that was using corporate rate - it included someone coming out to assemble it and set it up to suit me personally.
Well yes and no. My own programme has halved the number of people in my role as a result of this pandemic (and the associated issues) but we've all just had contract renewals on the same rate.
Must be a tough environment you work in if YOU need someone to help you problem solve.
I run a small development team who constantly bounce ideas off each other and are often crowded around one set of monitors suggesting alternate solutions to problems etc.
WFH is ok for catching up on Admin etc, but in practical terms it's a total pain in the arse.
That's a key thing for people in their early to mid 20s moving to a new area for work. If you turn up in a new town/city and know pretty much nobody there, your three options for finding mates are basically housemates in a shared house, work colleagues and people you meet through any hobbies and interests you have. All are lotteries to a degree but help you develop a network of friends. The mates I go to festivals with are people who used to work with a former colleague of mine in the job before he worked with me.
arthursboy
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Work from home
Save money
Protect the business
Save money
Protect the business
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Been doing halfy half through it all but I've now been told I can work from home full time and they have bought me a load of office equipment to do so. This is the new future.
Bob Fleming
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Yes seen the same in the agile teams I've worked in over the years. Productivity and more importantly quality is far better when teams are co-located.
spitfire
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I'm expecting WFH in some capacity to become a regular thing for many in our place. I'm likely to do a 3 day in and 2 days from home split when we get back. Better work life balance
Kent_Mackem
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I've worked at home off and on for 8 years now. The last 3 years pretty much exclusively at home apart from the odd trip over to my primary client in Germany.
I worked for Barclays and HSBC both with head offices in Canary Wharf. I absolutely hated the commute. I used to get up stupid early to catch the first train out of Ely to have any hope of getting a seat. That should have meant I could leave around 3.30pm but people invariably plonked important meetings so it just meant I worked longer hours in London if I couldn't escape and beat the rush back. I hated the packed Northern Line from KX to Bank. I hated the blue-suited bell ends that strut around Canary Wharf. I much prefer working from home.
The boss of Barclays, Jess Sealy, has already questioned the need for an HQ building with several thousand workers inside who mostly don't know or interact with the vast majority of others. It would save on office rent/mortgage, heating, maintenance, cleaning, catering (although that can be an income stream) and security. Working from home also keeps so much traffic off the roads. The only time I have used my car in the last few weeks was to go the supermarket. I can't remember the last time I filled it with fuel.
I hope that if any positives come out of this piglet flu lockdown, one of them could be less traffic on the roads, less crowded trains and fewer people crammed into shit offices to work. I love working from home. I don't have to interact with bell ends or listen to their shite phonecalls on the next desk. I get more work done at home as I just get cracking and get it done, no commute or fannying about in the office. I do a really early start after walking the dog and it means I get most of the afternoon and all of the evening free.
I worked for Barclays and HSBC both with head offices in Canary Wharf. I absolutely hated the commute. I used to get up stupid early to catch the first train out of Ely to have any hope of getting a seat. That should have meant I could leave around 3.30pm but people invariably plonked important meetings so it just meant I worked longer hours in London if I couldn't escape and beat the rush back. I hated the packed Northern Line from KX to Bank. I hated the blue-suited bell ends that strut around Canary Wharf. I much prefer working from home.
The boss of Barclays, Jess Sealy, has already questioned the need for an HQ building with several thousand workers inside who mostly don't know or interact with the vast majority of others. It would save on office rent/mortgage, heating, maintenance, cleaning, catering (although that can be an income stream) and security. Working from home also keeps so much traffic off the roads. The only time I have used my car in the last few weeks was to go the supermarket. I can't remember the last time I filled it with fuel.
I hope that if any positives come out of this piglet flu lockdown, one of them could be less traffic on the roads, less crowded trains and fewer people crammed into shit offices to work. I love working from home. I don't have to interact with bell ends or listen to their shite phonecalls on the next desk. I get more work done at home as I just get cracking and get it done, no commute or fannying about in the office. I do a really early start after walking the dog and it means I get most of the afternoon and all of the evening free.
Butcher's Coat
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On the same money though I hope marra.
spitfire
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Yep. We will shed some office space in the future.
Hep
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You not got a phone?
We've found a way of working using Teams but it's much better being side by side.
Hep
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This baffles me. I've worked from home for about 15 years. When I'm working from home, I'm working, not chatting about the weather. When I do go into the office, I find loads of people want to chat instead of doing work.
If you want to chat and socialise, do it in the pub or at lunchtime over Teams.
Why?
Charmless Man
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Don't know how you've made the leap from companies selling off office space/exiting leases to spending your entire life in the house and never meeting colleagues if I'm honest.
I think a mindset shift will be needed as reading through the posts its mainly the sense of routine people feel they'll miss.
Sidewinder2
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Currently working from home, have been 23rd March, its f***ing awful
Hep
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It works fine, we've got dev pairs located in different countries and they use the tech to whiteboard etc.
nyron4england
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i'd rather wfh than deal with all this social distancing and mask crap. i like commuting and i like being in the city but no way am doing all that crap. i'll just stay in the house.
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