How long will we all be working from home?

[Ghostlyglow]

Do you think? After a couple of false starts, I was sent home from my NHS admin job last Thursday. We've all been given brand new kit to work on (DP reckons over 1k's worth) and basically told to get on with it, and given no indication of how long for (yes, I did ask ) I can't help thinking it's going to be a while...

You'll have people on here telling you it'll be July 2046 before lockdown ends, but I reckon it will only be another couple of weeks. Look at Spain.

Going to school twice a week to run what’s essentially a holiday club. I don’t have an hope we will be back before September which is a shame as I had a smashing class.

The doomsayers will say never, because doom doom we're all doomed. Get used to it. This is the new normal.

The overly optimistic will say the end of this week when the government has their meeting about when to lift lockdown.

Realistically it'll be somewhere in between the two.

I suspect we won't be back into the office (Central London) before the end of May.

Not too long I hope, I'm finding it very inefficient compared to being in the office.

I’ve been thinking mid-June for some reason.

I'm thinking end of May too. Our office is already looking at reducing the number of desks so social distancing can continue to be enforced (which it will need to be), and our Manager has offered our team up as nomads to help reduce on numbers going in too.

We've also been assured that as individuals we only return to the workplace when we actually feel safe to do so, which is a nice and sensible touch.

I reckon end of June.

I reckon June.

I think beginning of June and that includes schools too.

I think June too. After the half term.

End of May earliest.

My organisation has closed all of our offices until the end of June.

On and off until end 2021. Maybe 3-5 week windows when I'm 'allowed' in the office. I don't want the hassle of transferring stuff back & forth so don't know what I'll do. I don't like WFH at all.

I think the beginning of June, after half term as well.

Maybe June. It isn’t going to be lifted this week. People are so silly

Mid June earliest.

That is when the shielded group will have done their 12 weeks.

There is no sense in asking 1.5 million people + (not sure how many people there were in the 'second wave' of the shielding group) to isolate and then risking spreading it by letting everyone else go back to work / school?

Our company has said that furloughed staff should expect to remain so until end of May. They're planning for us all to be back in the office sometime in June, which sounds about right to me.

I am hoping i can continue to work from home until the beginning of September.

I think maybe mid-May/start of June, and probably fairly gradually at first, not just 'right off you go!'

Based on nothing but my own thoughts I'm thinking June and that it'll be a phased return. Essential workers currently working from home will be recalled back to the workplace and childcare will be allowed to resume with schools remaining open to keyworkers children/vulnerable children as they are now. Currently suspended/restricted/limited services such as opticians, dentists, outpatient appointments and elective surgeries will resume at around the same time. Next up will be office-based businesses, banking, retail, and factories. Last sector to resume will be the leisure, fitness, and holiday industries will all children returning to school at that point too.

Social distancing will remain in place, there will be a period of two weeks between each phase of the lockdown being lifted in order to see if numbers go up or remain stable (and if they do go up then the phased lift will be paused), and shielded people will continue to remain shielded.

If numbers start to go up again in the winter months when it would coincide with flu season, presuming there is no vaccine or effective treatment, then there will potentially be another lockdown at some point between November and February.

My work has been working to the 12 weeks when it kicked off. Our organisation has adapted to WFH very easily though, the whole organised is WFH, so I suspect we will stay like this while social distancing is still in place even if it would be "allowed" to open sooner. We're a non-government body.

End of May to mid June time hopefully. I love my Dh but he doesn't do well when he's not working (he can't wfh so is furloughed). Any longer & I might make him live in the shed.

My DH's work plan to play it much safer than the govt whatever happens. They simply won't take the risk with their staff's health. Basically they don't trust them and shut up shop well before it was advised.

After the May half term (schools as well) That will take us to the twelve weeks and the end of the government’s initial furlough period.