Are you still working at home? If so what industry?

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Anyone still not bothered to go back to the office?

What industry are you in if you're still at home and not being pressured to get back to the office?

PR. We massively downsized our office to an open plan one over lockdown and now no one wants to (or has to) use it.

I work in social housing. We have adopted agile working since covid and my team are going back in the office one set day a week in the next few weeks.

Genuine question to those WFH permanently - are you ever concerned about your job being outsourced overseas where wages are much cheaper?

Not worried. What DH and I do is specialised. He works for a global company as a lead, which has always been very video call focused so not much changed with the pandemic in that sense.

I do a specialist type or marketing which wouldn't be outsourced either.

Some of my job is already done overseas, but that’s because we need to cover different time zones - some of those time zones are in countries with higher wages than in the UK. My job can’t be done by people in any of the famed “cheaper” countries.

Genuine question to those WFH permanently - are you ever concerned about your job being outsourced overseas where wages are much cheaper?

Cheap overseas labour has always existed in my sector. There's a reason companies spend more to hire domestic employees and it isn't because they like having us around!

No, because I do law that specialises in a specific type of sexual crime and I am not sure a call handler would have the expertise, the qualifications or the ability to deal with clients to that degree.

Steel sales. I’m the only one in my office to carry on working from home (nobody else bothered during Covid, but I had to shield) but I go in on occasion, where I struggle with the noise and seem to make more mistakes!

The key thing about off-shoring work currently being done from home in the UK is do the skills exist in that other place that it can be done. Just by dint of people doing work from home here doesn’t make the work itself automatically off-shoreable.

IT consultant for a software company. Pre COVID I was mainly doing European on site work during weekdays so lots of flights but I can't travel now due to Brexit and not being vaccinated.

My boss is cool with me working from home now.

This allowed me to move to the country side and chill with my laptop in the garden. No more early morning flights, delays, cancellations and endless airport queues.

Never been happier :)

Admin. We're still hybrid working. 70 office/ 30 home. Far far less sickness so people are only off when on leave these days.

IT Project Manager - pointless going into the office (which is about 4 hours away). Whole team is spread across the country. Would never consider a role back in the office more than one day a week to be honest, I have so much of my life back.

Supply chain. Company bringing in Hybrid but not in place yet. Went to the office which is over an hours drive last month for 1st time in 2 years. office nearly empty and when someone did come in you could hear everything so was very weird, got nothing done either. Its not that we are not bothered going, we are still as productive working from home( kept three factories running 24 /7 during Covid). We are more relaxed, less stressed and have a better work life balance. I will be less likely to leave this job aswell.

Insurance claims. Been home since first lockdown some people are hybrid now but I still wfh. Suits me much better

Public sector, and the reason is that my team are dispersed and are 90% of people I work with. I go into the office once a week as my choice to see other people and for a change of scenery. Hot desking but a decent booking system so I was in this week and sat with 8 or so other people I know.

When I used to WFH occasionally pre covid the IT wasn't great, now it's better at home than the office and I have a better DSE type set up as well. I do miss office gossip, and cake sales, so hope to find a bit of balance.

I do feel sorry for younger colleagues who don't have a good space at home, and then miss out on learning and social stuff when most people aren't in the office. In my first job I was in a new city where I didn't know people, or the work tasks, and it was great to be in the office all the time and drinks after work.

My husband is. He works in IT. Hasn't been in once since lockdown.

I work for a law firm and their original post-covid 3/2 hybrid model for the whole firm has turned into something more flexible.
As I'm a member of support staff I now go in 1-2 days a week or on an 'as needed' basis. They are pushing the fee earners to go in much more though.

IT.

I was hired as FT remote for my current role in June 20, but I spend about a week every quarter in our London office.

In fairness, I've been working this way since about 2015 - IT / IS cracked on to remote working a long time hence.

No - I'm a senior and very niche subject matter expert working in a majority English-speaking / cultural domain (I am also still expected to travel to / present at conferences and so on).

The chances of my 20-ish years of expertise being 'priced out' by a Comp Sci graduate based in Bangalore are slim to nil.

PA to my husband in a marketing related role. We both WFH full time, there is an office if we wanted to go in but don't really want or need to.

I work for a charity. I worked from home pre pandemic and still do

Book publishing - I think it's always been a pretty flexible industry like that though

My partner is a product designer and is also WFH, just uses the studio occasionally for meetings

Nope. My job requires a UK qualification and professional registration.

It's a straw man argument anyway. Companies have been moving away from overseas outsourcing for years, as customers don't like it. Plus it's expensive and complicated.

global recruiter. We locals now go in 1 dpw (company has one office) but have (new) colleagues on 100% remote contracts all over the world.

Ps husband works in IT (in a non techy role) and has wfh FT since before wfh was even a thing. Since about 2006.