Working From Home Megathread

You think that is the effect of WFH?

Im also public sector and yes for new entrants salary and pensions are not the same as for existing staff. The policy on remote working in civil service is expected to be rolled out to the public service - but we already have our own policy in place. Ive also noticed a lot of retirements aswell which is not a bad thing - early retirements aswell.

Just a personal anecdote. I work fully remote since the beginning of the pandemic, I will continue to do this going forward as my company are ok with this. My job is in a very specialised development area, I often work on projects on my own for weeks at a time and there is a creative element that I find easier working in my own office at home. I just have occasional teams meetings (couple of times a week maybe) with colleagues in various countries around the world, Dublin makes up a small part of it. I have been with the company a good few years and know everyone, I travel to other countries to meet colleagues, mostly just for the social side to get to know them. We don't have juniors that are in need of mentoring at the moment. I don't have concerns about visibility for progression or anything like that as the projects have high visibility an d speak for themselves. So, all in all my role is very suited to fully remote.

However, I had an informal chat with another similar company a few weeks ago. This company always had a reputation for great conditions, the typical things you would hear about in tech firms. I asked about the WFH policy, obviously mentioning that I am fully remote at the moment. They will be 3 days in and 2 days at home, for everyone in the firm. I can understand the reasoning for this, in my position it makes sense to be fully remote as I have built up relationships over the years, joining a new company would involve starting again. Development is, in my opinion, 50% about communication and communication is a lot easier in person.

Based on this, I think the standard "good" hybrid will be 3/2.

Is that attributable to remote working?

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how much less of a concern does covid need to become, we are long passed the point where the severity of the illness pales to the inconvenience of the isolation guidelines.

how did people manage without daily updates on other contagious respiratory viruses?

im advocating that we end this obsession with what is now a mild illness given the high % of people that are vaccinated and / or have contracted it at this stage and how harmless it is relatively speaking.

I didnt need to know how many people got the flu or who died from it either.

and its died with not from Covid.

There are loads of infectious diseases that are mild for most but will cause issues for those with underlying conditions or the elderly, Covid at this point is no more or less deadly than any of the rest of them. We shouldnt be reporting on it, any more than we should report on any of the rest of them.

Yes the HPSC statistics dont make the distinction they just record people who have died who were positive for Covid 19, given the prevalence of the omnicron variant im surprised the numbers arent higher, almost everyone i know now has had it and no one was seriously ill, all were vaccinated.

Nah lets go with your hyperbole and focus on fringe cases, its a nicer way to live.

While I am not going to disagree with you in relation to dropping all guidance which will be gone by the February IMO. Just wondering do you know how a virus kills it is highly unlikely that the dead is caused by the virus itself

Don't bother. No point. If it didn't sink in within the last 2 years, there's no hope for these people.

I'm on the hunt for a job. While not immediate, one of our bosses basically said we're coming back in, and even most fukaboutery with changing my roster to include 1 day shift a fortnight/month (compared to all nights) for literally no reason than to sit in with the day people and see how they work. Except any time that's ever happened before, 70% of what they do is irrelevant to us on nights. Pointless and only being done so this manager can feel special and like she's actually doing something other than wrecking everyones head. (This is also on top of 6 months waiting for DPA validation training on something I do every night, but still haven't been trained how to do it and isn't knowledge specific, it's employer system specific so can't be learned elsewhere).

Apple have a good few WFH jobs, but none suitable at the moment. Amazon have a few WFH but none of these are advertising salary. And I'm finding it basically impossible to find another night WFH job at the moment, so I'll have to... * shudders * go back on days...

I thought this was a working from home thread 🤔

Lots of posts seem to be generally covid related.

You should be working for WHO with all this amazing medical knowledge you have! Imagine all those doctors, professors and epidemiologists wasting all those years in college and med school when they could just have phoned you up!