Working from Home….

[peteblue]

Sean Dyche would defo have his team in every day if he was an office manager.

A while back I thought quite a few were wfh tbh…….

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I'm managing a South West team from Cornwall to Cheltenham, haven't met some of them F2F.

I go into a clinic one or two times a week. Suits me perfectly. I always dreamed of working from home but as a nurse never thought it possible, it's literally everything I hoped for and more and telephone assessments go down well with both patients and staff with no significant clinical drawbacks have been shown in the period since Covid.

I pay more for electricity etc at home and keeping out of the fridge is difficult but the cost of commuting for people shouldn't be underestimated, in this climate working from home is saving some people money to put food on the table.

Hybrid working absolutely is the future, companies resist it at their peril. In my industry at least its a sellers market, if you don't offer conditions that people want they will just work elsewhere. A happy team is a productive team.

 

[Nightman]

My team is International and all remote. We use an Employer of Record company, meaning I can hire almost anywhere. This is the way forward if company's want top talent, but I don't know if this service is used more widely than tech.

 

[wm02]

I’ve been 100% remote since starting a new job about a year and a half ago. On the whole, it’s been positive. More time with my kids and no commute.

I would say that it has made making friends in my new company challenging compared to my previous workplace. It’s just something that’s very difficult to develop in the virtual environment

 

[degsy]

So Covid originally drove this but now seems to be part of life. However it may end up being not quite so clever…..

“ The boss of electronics and white goods seller AO World has warned that staff working from home could find their jobs outsourced overseas.

John Roberts also told the Bolton-based retailer's 3,000 employees that 'hybrid working', when staff come into the office only intermittently, was banned.

'Working from home, you might as well be working abroad, which is only a step away from outsourcing,' he said, warning that cheaper workers could be sourced in places such as Bangalore in India.”

Anyone here wfh….

From a bosses point of view - Yes a person on a computer can be anywhere...for answering phone in queries on simple topics with fixed answers.
But, in my experience those who 'allowed' to WFH are a bit higher up the paygrade than that.

I call 'Bluff'

 

[Tommy Chong]

Still working from home as well and loving it, although cabin fever does tend to seek in every now and then, but as along as I’m connected to the internet, I can do my work literally anywhere! On a beach in the Caribbean or 10,000 feet in the sky about to do a skydive… The boss will never know.

I'm fully remote. Play 9 holes a lot of mornings when the weather's nice or I like to have a lie in when I'm hungover.

Current client has stupid software on their laptops that show you offline after 5 mins of inactivity. So you need to plug in a mouse and wedge it between a wall and something that vibrates.

Will only take meetings in the PM.

My whole company is connected through Team Microsoft which tells everyone when you’re on line or away.
Hint: There are apps you can install that’ll move your mouse pointer a few centimetres every couple of minutes so it’ll look like you’re online 8 hours a day.