If you currently work from home or are hybrid, how much extra would you want p.a. to work from the office 5 days per week ?

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If you currently work from home or are hybrid, how much extra would you want p.a. to work from the office 5 days per week ?

Just that really.

I'm hybrid, 3 days at home. I'd want £40k to go in 5 days a week, to cover the extra travel cost and make up for the loss of work/life balance. Currently earn a measly £23.5k

20k.

DH and I woukd struggle due to sen childcare issues. one of us would have to stop the job we were currently doing, and get job that was evenings and weekends instead so the other could do standard office hours.

Not really, they've chosen a job that requires them to work in a specific environment, with specific equipment and with face to face contact with their end users.

I have chosen a job that requires internet access and a device capable of accessing the internet. I need no contact with other people in a face to face environment and no peripheral equipment.

I chose that job for many reasons. Working in an office would be completely unnecessary, inflexible, inconvenient and a ridiculous waste of money for the company I work for.

Enough to pay a nanny for before and after school care, a cleaner once per week and somebody to cook. So about £3000 extra a month minimum. Not going to happen, so i‘m not going to go in 5 days a week!

Depends on the commute tbh. I am surrounded within 10 miles away from 5 major motorways and if there is a problem on any of them, it's gridlocked around here.

Even into town at rush hour, 7 miles away used to take me 45mins. It's a complete waste of everyone's time.

I've been wfh since Mar 20 and we now have no office to go to. I have since been given a company car so at least it wouldn't cost me anything to travel, it's the time it takes.

My job is often all or nothing, a couple of busy days then a week with little to do. That empty time in the office was wasted on the Internet. Now my empty time is utilised better at home.

No amount of money will get me back to an office.

It costs me £110 a day to get to the office. I'd need a fair whack or a free train ticket!

True, but I can’t see people wanting to do these jobs in future when there’s no incentive. If you’ve got the choice of fannying about at home in your onesie all day tapping on a keyboard, or driving for 90 minutes to be vomited on for 10 hours, then no normal person is going for the latter. I’m getting old, I want people to look after me! I want decent people to teach my kids! I want to be driven around by competent train drivers!

I just don't want to do it at this point in my life. What I earn on a hybrid basis is enough for me so I can't think of a sum that would entice me back to 5 days per week commuting. I did it for nearly 20 years and hated it for most of that.

I am typing this from the train after a day in the office. Surrounded by noisy children, germy sniffers and other people's shitty music. Once or twice a week is plenty!

The cost of moving me and my family to London, in an equivalent-sized house (£200k more than my current home, at least) cleaning up London's air so it's the equivalent of rural Scotland, paying for a free chauffeur service that'll allow me to take my pet to the office, paying for a pet friendly area in the office, laundry service, creating silent zones in the office, putting in a decent coffee machine, putting in a garden for lunchtimes.

So in the millions, then I'd start considering it.

Seven figures then I’d quit after a couple of years. It’s about time with my kids not the money.

I live 10 miles from my workplace but it takes one hour to get there, and about 50 mins to get home.

it’s often forgotten/not realised that plenty of people with ‘normal’ jobs have a significant journey time to contend with. Pre-covid I spent nearly 10 hours per week commuting - madness.

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Not really, they've chosen a job that requires them to work in a specific environment, with specific equipment and with face to face contact with their end users.

I have chosen a job that requires internet access and a device capable of accessing the internet. I need no contact with other people in a face to face environment and no peripheral equipment.

I chose that job for many reasons. Working in an office would be completely unnecessary, inflexible, inconvenient and a ridiculous waste of money for the company I work for.

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"True, but I can’t see people wanting to do these jobs in future when there’s no incentive. If you’ve got the choice of fannying about at home in your onesie all day tapping on a keyboard, or driving for 90 minutes to be vomited on for 10 hours, then no normal person is going for the latter. I’m getting old, I want people to look after me! I want decent people to teach my kids! I want to be driven around by competent train drivers!"

I don't see that happening, jobs attract different people based on their skills sets, interests, personalities.

Some people flourish working in isolation, others need people around them to interact with.

I'm pretty certain most doctors, nurses and train drivers wouldn't want to be at home on 8hrs of Teams meeting, writing policy documents or discussing cybersecurity, governance, risk and compliance but that works for me. They probably wouldn't want the responsibility of making decisions about multi-million £ technology purchases or convincing clients that we can meet their info sec and data governance requirements.

Most of us working at home, aren't "fannying about in our onesies all day tapping a keyboard.".

Most of us working at home, aren't "fannying about in our onesies all day tapping a keyboard.".

Indeed. I always look presentable due to teams calls (and I always feel better when I’m presentable) and actually have to think as well as tap

For me, no amount extra money is worth going back to the office 5 days a week. You waste far too much of your precious free time commuting. I would only consider it if the commuting hours were considered work time. So a 9-5 day would instead be a 10-4.

I only work 3 days, 1 wfh. My commute is about 25 mins and less than £10 per day. If they wanted me back in the office for the 1 day I currently wfh I wouldn't expect anything really. Enough to cover the commute would be nice, but it wouldn't be a deal breaker.

If I was head hunted for a fully office based job, working 5 days per week in London rather than locally, then I'd want a take home of a million so I could do it for a year and then give up!

Can I ask what you do?

No amount- I earn well and have a great lifestyle as it is. The incremental gain could never be enough

Surely it should be how much less are you paid to work at home?

Truly there isn't. If I went in to my office everyday I would spend 4 hours commuting and would be gone 6.30am until 7.30pm. You couldn't pay me enough to not see my children M-F.

I’m contracted to WFH, with 3ish office days annually and the expectation to travel for conferences etc. I would want 4x my current salary to work from office. The commute would add significantly to my working week, and I would be less efficient.

My office is an 11 hour flight away so I guess it would have to be a private supersonic jet as a minimum...

If it was within 30 mins commute, I'd do 2 days a week for an extra £60k maybe
Full time - would need at least £200k more

Best of luck with that one if you're trying to recruit people who are at all in demand.

My commute is 10/15 minutes so not a massive hassle, I get free fruit and nice coffee in the office. If I was required to be in the office daily I’d probably do it for £5k.