If you WFH in an admin job, what do you do?

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I'm currently in an admin type role in insurance. I've loved WFH but my manager loves being in the office so wants us all there with him.

I'm going to start having a look around but it would be great to have some ideas as to where to start.

I'm very much over qualified and have a lot of varied experience.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

So much just depends on company policy.

I work in a uni in admin we will staying mostly WFH with just one day per week compulsory not the office.

Thanks Random.

I think that is going to be the case generally.

I'm going to start negotiating with my manager and take it from there.

I just wondered if there was some massive WFH industry I didn't know about.

I’d look for companies that have colleagues based all over the country (in regional sales roles for instance) or international companies. These are more likely to allow admins to wfh since many colleagues will have been home based for years. Companies where everyone lives near the office and the whole team used to go in every day with little travel/video calls are probably less likely to keep wfh going forward.

You could look for virtual assistant roles. There are agencies but may not be a reliable wage.

Higher paid industries will pay better so might be worth looking at any tech companies, legal, financial, big pharma companies etc

You can specify 'remote' in the LinkedIn job search. Not sure about admin but in my line of work (communications) there are loads of remote jobs at the moment.

Nhs are very flexible on remote working. I mix and match my days. 2 in office 3 at home or 3 in office and 2 at home. There's people in my team that remote work all week though. It depends what trust you work with but I'd look into nhs.. Job for life.

Thanks all. I'm going to look at NHS just to see.

Parish Council clerk.
It's a very responsible job, but can be learned as you go- there are qualifications you can take.

We are in a data type role which we can do fully home based but we have had to fight for our rights to WFH. We settled with two days a week office and three at home. Whereas my manager has refused to come in since last April!

I actually work in group business insurance, and we work almost full time from home.

Maybe look at an internal move, to a team where they wfh?

Publishing. Several of the assistant level people at my company have negotiated permanent WFH. In fact one person managed to negotiate permanent WFH in another country to the main office, but that’s pretty unusual.

I work for a big charity. The savings made by not manning / heating / lighting the offices means we've moved to mostly wfh where at all possible. I suspect other charities will be doing the same because of the requirements around using charitable funds and reducing overheads.

Book meetings and conferences, reply to emails, send out mail merges, take minutes, write process documents, sometimes help out other departments like HR, rotas, orders - for stationery and equipment, a little bit of filing/organising, take phone calls. Pretty much the same shit I used to do in the office but with less printing, less fake smiling and less makeup.

Local government.

Local council.

I work for local authority from home, my office has closed permanently.

I work for the Civil Service. My job was advertised as a wfh post. I started a few months ago and love the flexibility- I can log on and off at any time I want, as long as I do my hours.

NHS very much depends on the role and the trust. DP Works in adminstration in the NHS and has to be in everyday..