The back to work campaign starts next week and unsurprisingly there are lost of people who have enjoyed the WFH experience particularly if a long commute is involved (why people are commuting up to 4hrs a day baffles me)
Reading some of the comments, people are relocating to rural areas and in some cases taken advantage of these visas in work remotely from some of the Carribean islands and never want to do the commute again
Now this would be ringing alarms bell if I were in their position
If the job can be done from the other end of the country, then is can be done in another timezone. Once the CFO has banked the cost saving for disposing of the white elephant offices in Canary Wharf, he is going to be looking at the staff costs and realizing that the accounts team can be relocated to somewhere like the Philippines for a third of the cost, with not discernable drop in productivity
I think I would be extolling the virtues of office work to my boss - but then again people think about the here and now and not what is around the corner
Itās not gone wellā¦
1st day back to school here. Protocols to follow.
And it was a clusterfvck.
Queues over 500m and approx 1 hour to get into many of the bigger schools.
Parents ranting their kids will now all be sick from standing in 15C & rain for so long
And the kids are going back to their schools this week (some went back last week). I wonder how long itāll be before they close again, or change their attendance policiesā¦
Itās an interesting point, but I suggest this would, in the first instance, be limited to process only jobs, which generally require a lower skill set in order to do them. Now, i can only speak for the industry i know and not others, but a number of these jobs are already done abroad. For instance, I know plenty of designers who will mark up changes on drawings and ping them over to the Philippines for an autocad draughtsman to put them on CAD and send them back overnight. Also, a much bigger threat to these jobs is the prospect of automation which is already replacing jobs at a canter. My SAGE accounting system now offers the flexibility to do away with about half of what is currently done by an Employee (invoice creation, cost / value reconciliation, etc).
Talking to some Clients, their take is that London will be hardest hit. There isnāt a wholesale appetite for working exclusively from home, but whereas a 5 day week was based in the office, now it seems that a 2 or 3 day working week will be office based with the remainder WFH. The office days will be longer but employees seem to be happier with this. Commercial Landlords will be forced to re-purpose their buildings to suit what is needed as companies downsize their office presence. It will be interesting to see how it develops.
Iād be interested to hear what the experience is like from you guys and how you think your working life will be affected by this.
That makes talk of us working from home rather redundant! Unless youāre stuck in a Spearmint Rhino with an endless supply of booze and smokes of course in which case thereās fuck all to whinge about!
Iāve had 6 days work since March.
I get Ā£200 a month grant from the Tourist Board who are juggling spinning plates trying to stop the complete collapse of tourist infrastructure
My food bill alone is Ā£400 a month.
We have some booking in Decemberā¦
Obviously over 100 job applications sent for anywhere in Poland. Nothing.
Itās weird isnāt it? Go back to school or you will fall too far behind. Go back to your office or lose your job. Jump on the tube, you love the commute. Go buy a sandwich or the economy will collapse. Go on holiday or the airlines will fail.
Oh fuck me, fucking youngsters are so irresponsible.
