Working from home ending?

[Iamamanandlost]

Jp Morgan, Asda, Amazon and WPP are forcing people back into the office? Is it ending working from home?

Customer service of some well known large companies has plummeted since WFH. You can tell immediately when the people you are speaking to are not in the office - the call sounds different and some answer as if you have interrupted their nap or Netflix session. The unprofessional tone of many is a giveaway as is the indifference and unhelpful attitude. Of course most of these organisations will do their best to avoid calls by hiding their contact information and driving customers to use online chat bots instead.

I am not against WFH, I do think it has a place depending on the individual and the job role. However as a customer it has made dealing with many companies incredibly challenging.

Will be bad news for those who don't want to pay for childcare and have kids at home and think they can do both and get away with it.

Most of the people who mention childcare mean if they arent commuting means they require an hour, even 2 or 3 hours less childcare because they can go from home and not the office to drop off and collect.

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Reporting of sick days has reduced

How dare they look after their children when they could be commuting!

There are some illnesses you're fine to work from home but would not be advisable to go into office. I had a sick bug over the weekend a few weeks ago, felt fine by Sunday evening but due to the 48 hour rule we have at work I'd have to call in sick for 2 days if we had to go to office- felt fine to work from home though. Same with some viruses; a commute and then sat in a bright office with crappy recycled air is different to being able to focus on work from home. Of course some people take the mick and are too poorly to do much, but how many people are really in jobs where it wouldn't notice?

Vote with your feet rather than moaning about it, is my view. Go work somewhere that has the mix of home and office working you want. Many more places are hybrid these days. At the end of the day if a company wants to force people back to the office, yes they generally can - if you don’t like it, leave. Ditto working from home if you would rather be in an office environment.

We are all being moved to a new office with hot desking, but there are only enough desks to allow us to go in 2 days a week. So definitely the reverse for us. The space we are in now is being used for students.

No I think hybrid or wfh is here to stay for jobs where that is possible. That may lead to a divide as quite a lot of non wfh jobs are lower paid but will involve most childcare for longer periods (due to commutes). Include this like carers, cleaners, TAs and building work.

Even professions traditionally fully in work a re changing - advanced nurses and doctors doing phone clinics and sone teachers being able to have time at home ( in theory at least).

Personally I’m office based and could be fully wfh but live alone and my MH needs at least some days in office. It definitely helps with learning - we had a change to an aspect of work and it was much easier just being able to ask a colleague what they thought rather than a formal process.

My DH has a disability and can only do his job because he doesn't have to travel in all the time.

But sure, it's all work shy lazy piss takers.

If my IBS decides that today is a diarrhoea day, I can work from home because the loo is next to my study, so no sick day required.

If I am compelled to go to the office, I cannot attempt the commute, so I have to call in sick.

NOBODY should be providing childcare at home for small children and working at the same time. They are 2 separate jobs.

I think you have misunderstood what @1457bloom meant

It's the time saved by not commuting that people get to spend with their children

I don’t know anyone who does this? What people mean is that they don’t have to factor in an additional 2-4 hours commute into their childcare arrangements so they actually get to see their kids rather than spend that time on a train, which doesn’t benefit their employer either !

I think you have misunderstood me. I am talking about parents who do not use childcare for their kids because they are at home "working". I am not talking about commuting.

I know at least 3 people who do this, one of whom I had to let go recently.

Not for me either. Will always be remote.

Agreed, they will only get away with it if we accept it. They will soon get the message if we choose alternative employers who offer hybrid then they will have no choice but to return to this. It's a two way street.

There are people regularly posting on this site about “wfh” at the same time as providing childcare. Mine are bigger now but I used to have childcare for them on wfh days when I did hybrid in a previous job

WFH is a god send to us - I work completely remotely as my office is several hours drive away - I was offered the job due to experience, but the company always knew I'd never attend the office.

I work bloody hard, I put in the extra hours when my toddlers are in bed too, so when I need to take an hour or three in the day, I do. It's flexi-working here and I exceed all targets so they're pretty happy with me, and I am happy with the flexibility. I do a compressed week as standard.

School holidays means that my husband is home (teacher) but I book 2 days leave per week, and work from home the other 2 meaning my children have us all summer. It's amazing.

When the children are poorly, I'm at home anyway so it's no drama.

My old company were so happy inflexible- annual leave would not have been able to be taken weekly during holidays, WFH was not permitted, and if the children were unwell, I would be forced to take unpaid leave. Certainly left a sour taste.

However, I have seen a couple of colleagues take the piss and this does not go unnoticed!

WFH isn't for everyone everybody but it definitely is for me :D

I don't get the moaners. I can't work from home easily with my role but I wouldn't want to. I like the routine of leaving the house, seeing other people and not using my own gas and electricity. I do have slightly depressive tendencies though and need this routine.

I love these threads 🤣 all the bitter folk that have to commute to work every day crawling out from under their rocks, calling wfh employees “work shy”, accusing them of skiving and watching tv instead 🤣
Crack on with it, it doesn’t affect those of us who do wfh. The reason my employers allow so many of us to either 100% wfh or be hybrid, is that it’s impossible to skive. Those of us who do wfh are, month on month, far more productive than those who choose to go into the office. We’re also much more likely to work extra hours to finish off admin, rather than logging off dead on 5.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it while you’re bitterly driving or bussing it to work 🤣

You beat me to it! 😂

It does seem to be the bitter folk whinging!!

I would have been insanely jealous a couple of years ago before my new role - absolutely!