To think one good thing may be, more people working from home in the future?

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Lots of workplaces are being forced to consider this option now. Hopefully this might lead to more people working from home long term?

Let commuting, pollution, pressure to look good, opportunity to eat proper food, time to do other stuff as opposed to commuting.

Would put a lot of pressure on workers in more expensive parts of the country to afford accommodation large enough to provide a workspace, maybe even workspace for two people. If all you can afford is a tiny rented room, where exactly do you put your desk?

More jobs that could be done exclusively or mostly at home would give people working for companies located in expensive areas the chance to live somewhere cheaper.

I do not get the appeal of working at home. I like leaving the house every day and coming back and enjoying my home in the evening.

I have to agree, I've just done my first day officially WFH and I'm thinking of going into the office tomorrow. I don't have a long commute, and I rather miss being around other people - I see enough of DH in the evening, I don't need to see him all day too (SAHD) If I have to WFH for the next 3 months, I'm going to need a whole new routine to get fresh air, exercise, human company ...

If all you can afford is a tiny rented room, where exactly do you put your desk?

Corner. there is always a way

Don't forget to follow the expert advice though!

vegetablemunge it wouldn't make much difference to me I start work at 7am not many office workers around then and my bus home is usually full of pensioners using their free bus passes mid afternoon

You still breathe air.

If you guys all love it then great. Crack on.
I hate WFH. Being forced to try to do that is giving me anxiety, right now.

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But surely removing the people who can WFH from the roads and railways will free them up for people that need them ? Reducing the wasted (and unpaid) time sitting in traffic ?

It does. Yesterday and today, my commute was so easy as there was much less traffic than normal. I reckon a large number of people are wfh already. I will be soon.

I think I'd get more done if I didn't have to spend so much time in team meetings.
three yesterday
two today
three tomorrow

• and that's just whole team catch ups, not smaller meetings with an actual purpose.

the Piggies are lovely @lljkk

I love wfh. I’m only allowed to do it one day a week (same for all of us) but I get way more done. when I’m in the office I’m constantly being asked for advice and despite telling people/asking for management backing, it persists. Boss is very old fashioned and huge on presenteeism. I have zero time for that. When the current virus issues are eventually sorted, if other businesses who are more savvy have realised wfh is the way forward then I will be applying for new jobs.

100% yes. This will revolutionise my workplace

Would put a lot of pressure on workers in more expensive parts of the country to afford accommodation large enough to provide a workspace
I'm just using my dining table - i can walk to work, but many of the people work with spend £xxxx vommuting!

Of course there are some positives to wfh but like everything else there is a downside. Humans are supposed to be social creatures. More home schooling and wfh is going to mean more isolation, less social skills and job losses in other sectors.

I've been working at home permanently since last week and it's fantastic. My firm paid for improved VPN and better laptops and the entire firm are at home at the moment.

It's made a great change, as my firm is a huge corporate with a competitive visibility and presenteeism culture. I hope this leads to more WFH in the future. Not having to rush around dropping the kids off, running for the train, eating lunch at my desk and getting home late and exhausted has been life changing. I was able to put the washing on, do some admin and prep dinner at lunchtime. I would voluntarily take a big pay cut to continue doing this.

For some it’ll work for others though it’s not just about the financial side of things. It’s also or in some cases more about the mental side getting out there.

People keep saying more wfh will lead to more isolation but that's just not necessarily true at all.

Some people really enjoy the social side of work and love interacting with colleagues. To me there is nothing worse than being stuck in an office for numerous hours with the same odious turds, day in day out. Constant office politics and the same petty issues on repeat. I wouldn't miss it.

I already WFH frequently and across a number of sites, so I don't have an office as such. my employer is very flexible and provided we do what we are asked, there isn't any necessity to log on at a specific time.

We've been told today that we are going to be WFH until further notice, but Skype meetings are very common place.

I will miss the contact with colleagues, particularly because its helpful to bounce ideas about during the day.

Im hoping it does. A couple of people WFH today in my team, but Im back in the office tomorrow. Just waiting on a laptop so I've been told. My managers think that less will get done and we cannot be trusted not to sit on social media all day. I really hope I can get the chance to prove them wrong soon. Also it would be so much easier for me to WFH on occasion. There is the odd time where I need to take a holiday (or part holiday) when I could carry on working at home without having to use some of that entitlement up.. It would also cause less anxiety in snow (I hate ringing in) too and it would do wonders for my mental health.

Of course the flipside of WFH might be less pay - although that could be put towards more employees ?

While technically I can work at home (NHS IT/informatics worker) and will mostly be doing so from tomorrow for the next few weeks/however long, unless there are any meetings I have to attend in person, I am not really looking forward to it, and for me it isn't very practical.
I live alone so a bit anxious about feeling socially isolated, especially as I can't even see any friends in the evening/at weekends.

I live in a one bed flat, so no spare room to be an office.
I have brought home my laptop, mouse and a monitor (I work in a PC with two monitors at work, it is very difficult to do my work for any length of time on a small laptop screen) and have set them up on my dining table, so unless I want to faff about moving the whole setup to the floor every evening, I no longer have a dining table to eat at.

From a DSE regulations/health and safety point of view the laptop screen is the wrong height, and wrong distance from me, I shouldn't be using the laptop keyboard for a prolonged period (going to pop into work sometime in the next few days to pick up a keyboard), and my chair is a hard wooden dining chair which can't be adjusted in height so I am not the right height at the table. I do have a thin cushion pad on the chair to make it a bit more comfortable, but it really isn't the same as an office chair.

To work from home on a permanent basis I would need to replace my dining table with a desk and office chair - my dining table is in my lounge and I really don't want to be able to see my office area when I am trying to relax on my sofa in the evening. So will do it for as long as I need to now, and don't mind doing it every so often in future, but I much prefer leaving my home to go into my office (on foot) and interact with other people.

Worked from home.todsy
Got loads done but want back in the office!