ronk said:Retirement is best job ever - ok the salary drops a lot but it works out nicely provided you are in a Mr Macawber situation !
Missing elements for me are lack of banter and the knowledge pool is zero.
Nanu said:Working from home is difficult to get used to at first (Been doing it for 14 yrs) and takes a lot of discipline especially in summer months but it has distinct advantages. As long as my work gets done then I am left to my own devices. If it's nice outside then I take advantage, if not or its dark cold winter months then I work and or clock up time owed. Weekdays / weekends don't matter. Alarm clocks, what are those? Traffic jams the same. I go into an office no more than once a week and only for a couple of hours at most. I have been offered serious money to work full time in an office based job and turned it down. Can't beat coming out of the bedroom into the office, switching on the computer and your at work in seconds. Often still in the dressing gown till 10am
I have been working from home for 12 years. I don’t even pop to the office on the odd occasion. Being mobility impaired it has been great. All my colleagues are now working from home and it looks like they will never go back to working full time from an office again. That is what the company is saying.AndyBeech said:Nanu said:Working from home is difficult to get used to at first (Been doing it for 14 yrs) and takes a lot of discipline especially in summer months but it has distinct advantages. As long as my work gets done then I am left to my own devices. If it's nice outside then I take advantage, if not or its dark cold winter months then I work and or clock up time owed. Weekdays / weekends don't matter. Alarm clocks, what are those? Traffic jams the same. I go into an office no more than once a week and only for a couple of hours at most. I have been offered serious money to work full time in an office based job and turned it down. Can't beat coming out of the bedroom into the office, switching on the computer and your at work in seconds. Often still in the dressing gown till 10am
Maybe it’s an age thing but that sounds horrendous to be honest! Each to their own but I would have gone nuts by now if I’d had to have worked from home this whole time. I know some of my friends are and once the initial ‘novelty’ period wore off they all hate it now and want to get back in the office. Mental health is a massively overlooked issue at the moment.
Hopefully this whole sorry affair will be over to some degree soon.
ronk said:I have a hunch why they are probably against home working, because they’ve probably got staff that need a bomb under their arses to get the moving or at least the boss popping in once in a while!
Well, depends on the employee and their work ethic. It IS difficult, but I find myself working out of hours a lot more that I did. Popping to check up on what the US is doing all throughout the evening, or prepping up for Monday on a Sunday night.mgrlane said:ronk said:I have a hunch why they are probably against home working, because they’ve probably got staff that need a bomb under their arses to get the moving or at least the boss popping in once in a while!
100% this.
My partner has noticed a sizable decrease in the productivity of her team when working from home. I suspect others might be the same.
I will be honest- if I was an employee working from home I would totally be the same![]()
john-e89 said:One man band in a man cave with ramps, blasting cabinets, tools....sold all my old building equipment and never been happier working. I’ll take this all day everyday even with all the worries and risk that a new business brings. No intention of setting anyone on again, just me and my cave with no one breathing down my neck...!![]()
