Working From Home Megathread

The WFH /hybrid survey should be a simple one line question: - Do you want the certainty of a whole load of extra hours per week to sleep, exercise, spend time with your family and get out midweek with your real friends and have a meal or a few beers or do you want to commit to unnecessary travel to a desk where you boot up the same f*cking computer you were looking at at home and catch up with people who generally don't share your interests but you all try so amicably for teamwork' sake??

Then there's the one that you get on like a house on fire with and you miss. And guess what? There's no company rule saying you can't meet them for beer, football, coffee or whatever outside office hours. But no matter how pally ye are in work, no dossing, no drinking and defo no funny business.

Look, work should be meaningful. But we can't all be that lucky. Most of us have to do the (often well-paid) sh1tty jobs. Bye bye soul. But hey. But if it means more to you than your family, pets or personal development like reading or self improvement or volunteering or living a full rounded life, you need your head examined and ps good shooting for the next death race, sorry, I mean promotion competition.

If employers can't seize the once a century organisational development opportunity created by a pandemic, then marketplace creative destruction awaits.

We've, mostly, all bought into the narrative that WFH is anti-social and being in the office is social. Not really. The truth is that the office environment is totally unnatural, toxic and wasteful of resources. The truly social creature would be best completing tasks at home,not competing hours by the way, and then continuing to spend those God-given hours in the focussed lived fashion they should be. Not sitting like a goon with your foot on the throttle and your eyes forward, like Fred & Barney. Planning your day or listening to podcasts about how to plan your day....

Wake up folks. Baaaaa!

Not all. I am back 2 to 3 days a week. I know others who never worked from home (due to what they work on) and others who were in the office a day or 2 always. Yes trying to contact your local office by phone is horrible. But hey it has always been like that

I am in I am in CGs area I would say sent a mail through MyAccount or ROS

I think we could all get on-board with this idea as the lines between work and home-life get blurred with WFH - "Portugal has banned bosses from text messaging and emailing staff out of working hours as part of new laws dubbed "right to rest".

Well all that ever was was the right to request remote working.

There was no obligation onnan employer to allow remote working.

Oh I agree there should be still some telephone system at least. It is the same for us trying to get someone. Sorry I cant be much help

surely though, given the fact it'll be almost 2 years when we've been wfhing 100% of the time, how can employers honestly say you have to come in 50-60% of the time? it's not credible.

I had understood it could only be refused with data-based reasons as opposed to simply giving written sentences. The employer would need to show a measurable detrimental impact to the employee's work by them not doing it in the office. Very difficult for a lot of roles to show this.

Cleanliness: with hot-desking, you'll be using a desk that was sat at by someone else yesterday. Either the employer has to pay someone to sanitise between users, or there is a risk of cross infection. (Yah, I know Covid-19 is rarely spread on surfaces. But other bugs are. And some people are just grubby.)

We have enough equipment for them to work in one place. But we need to buy additional so that they can work at home or the office - there's not much rush, because we're not expecting people back until Feb/March next year.

Looks like approval will be given today & tomorrow to the reintroduction of WFH where possible restrictions. I guess it will apply from Wednesday?

And to not expect people to make life changes that reflect that fact is madness!