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pret will be gutted...this campaign seems to have gone a little quiet.......
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pret will be gutted...this campaign seems to have gone a little quiet.......
i believe one council north of the river are consolidating their office estate, closing down buildings and moving everyone onto one smaller site on the assumption that moving forward not everyone will ever work from the office at the same time again.
And I bet that's a large office with loads of people ? My office (that I won't be going back to)) is small, 12 people work there - 2 of which are off with confirmed cases of Covid............I dread to think of what could happen in bigger offices with more employees.50% of our staff going back on Monday. The other 50% get to work from home for the forseeable (they've made vague promises about 1 week in, 1 week at home, but it won't happen)
I'm pretty much the only one who has over 30 minute commute (can take up to an hour if traffic is bad), the rest of the team are local to the office.
Feel shafted to be honest, and have told them as much.
And I bet that's a large office with loads of people ? My office (that I won't be going back to)) is small, 12 people work there - 2 of which are off with confirmed cases of Covid............I dread to think of what could happen in bigger offices with more employees.
since very early on in this (the end of march), i've thought it unlikely our office would be back before christmas... and every passing week confirms it.Our rota return been put back for 'several weeks' and will be reviewed again
Over time they will save on office costs as well. I can see new starters using the main office for training and getting to know key staff, then working from home most of the time alone with the rest of the staff who know the systems. There will be an increase in the use of conference type facilities for whole staff training or just to get people together to make links and do the social bonding which will be lost by not all being in the office.Homeworking is in for good like, this recent spike has seen to that. As people are more used to it and comfortable doing it, productivity is going through the roof and employers are now seeing the benefits, after initially being sceptical.
Spot onOver time they will save on office costs as well. I can see new starters using the main office for training and getting to know key staff, then working from home most of the time alone with the rest of the staff who know the systems. There will be an increase in the use of conference type facilities for whole staff training or just to get people together to make links and do the social bonding which will be lost by not all being in the office.
We are in a time of transformation of the work place, that is the only positive I can see for this pandemic. Obviously there will need to be structural changes to city centres, possibly seeing more people living in the centre of towns and in the suburbs and small towns an increase in footfall for local shops, hopefully locally run and owned rather than the one size fits all chains we currently have.
since very early on in this (the end of march), i've thought it unlikely our office would be back before christmas... and every passing week confirms it.
I have a real challenge on my hands as to what to do with our London office in the next 2 years. We are effectively squatting from the end of this month but by hook or by crook can eek things out to 2 years. I suspect what we end up with will be very different to what we have now.No they won’t. Companies won’t spend millions on big office blocks where they’re responsible for the rent, maintenance and utility costs of those premises when their staff can work from home and literally bear that cost themselves.
And I bet that's a large office with loads of people ? My office (that I won't be going back to)) is small, 12 people work there - 2 of which are off with confirmed cases of Covid............I dread to think of what could happen in bigger offices with more employees.
A year laterThat'll be changing soon like
Talk in certain depts of trying to get majority of people back for at least a couple of days a week in the next month.
I've just signed up to exactly that !!I've got an interview next week and it's predominantly working from home with occasional travel to Manchester.