To ask if you would rather...

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1. Work from home the majority of the time with 1-2 days in the office per month. Office is a 40 minute drive

1. Earn £7k more than job 1, BUT you have to go to the office twice a week. Some of these office days are to a site with a 45 minute commute, some are a 90 minute commute.

I’d lean towards the lion too. I think you’d get blacklisted by all the delivery services though.

7k after tax, pension and student loan will end up maybe 300 extra a month. Moat of it will be swallowed by travel costs, I imagine..

Job 1 for me. I've spent plenty enough years commuting 90+ minutes on a daily basis so I'm happy to leave that to the young and enthusiastic.

On the other hand, Job 2's extra £7 grand could go into a personal pension pot so I could retire earlier...what you've never had you don't miss and all that.

Oh, and I'd rather have a lion outside than a tarantula inside

Same here. I'd probably go for the lion but who knows when reality strikes!

£7k less tax less annual cost of commute = whether it's worth it or not.

What's it worth in personal time too?

What percentage increase is the £7k on base salary?

I hate working from home, would have to be job 2 for me

😆 Lion outside the front door btw! 🦁

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@GameOfThrows

Such comments - as wfh is for the terminally lazy - are for the terminally jealous. Enjoy your daily commute.

I took offence at that comment, until ill health meant I was no longer able to work, I had worked from home since 2008. I can assure you there was no room for laziness whatsoever.

Well, personally I'd take the job with two days a week in the office and the larger salary - but I'm speaking as someone with no kids, so I don't have to worry about childcare or getting home to collect a child from nursery or whatever. I also have very easy access to good public transport and don't really have any problem with sitting on a train for 45 (or 90) minutes twice a week with a good book. I'm sure for someone who had to factor in childcare or for whom the commute was a really complicated or stressful one, the WFH job might be the better deal.

Obviously it also depends how much you need the money and what the extra salary would mean to you. For some people the extra money might be a real lifeline in terms of paying off a debt or being able to have a holiday for the first time in years or whatever whereas for others, it might not make a massive difference.

Definitely the second.

£7k more with increased commuting (and potentially childcare costs)? Is it financially worth it?

By childcare costs I don't mean that people who wfh don't have them as well. But I'd have to pay more if I needed to also cover a 90 min commute.

Oh do piss off.

OP - i'd take the pay rise and the office days. You might actulaly enjoy it.

Depends how much it would cost for fuel, childcare, extra food costs if you end up getting takeaway for dinner because youre home late or if you buy lunch because of lack of time and energy on those two days. Would need to see the difference in salary with those factors first then decide if the remainder was worth the hassle.

You need to weigh up costs more than anything. 7k isn't a huge amount after tax, fuel costs, childcare etc etc. After that, you just need to decide if the amount you'll take home is worth the upheaval of commuting 2 days a week instead 2 days a month.

Home working is exactly that, home working.
Perhaps you're projecting your own laziness.

This is not true

But to answer the question, I would take the higher paid job, as long as you want to do it obviously

What a twattish response. I've run my own business from home for 20 years, and I've worked bloody hard.

If an employee is going to be lazy, they will be lazy in the office too.