5 days in office

[ilovebrie8]

Would yo consider this 5 days in the office no hybrid working, a 40 hour working week 9 to 6 every day with an hour for lunch.

I've been hybrid for last few years and don't want to do 5 days on site...plus the longer hours.

Been looking for work for 8 months and it is dire...getting desperate....

When I take breaks. I can put in a load between meetings or take 5 mins to vacuum the living room. I also can get even more done in a one hour lunch break.

1. I take breaks in the office.
2. I take breaks when wfh.

For some reason people have no issue with 1. but 2. Is a problem.

Well for me it’s the 2 hrs a day I’m saving by not haunt to commute.

Do you genuinely believe that doing laundry and vacuuming are "breaks"? When do you wind down at home? Or is it Put a load on, have coffee afternfor 10 minute? Vacuum for 45 minutes then have lunch and a sit down?

So much for the argument that SAHMs are putting their back into it for waking hours.

When I work from home I find that if I do jobs I need equal time off and end up workong later. I can't reasonably spend 90 minutes on housework and not have a breaknfor lunch/coffee so then end up working until 7 because I haven't done all of my work.

I would not because it would mean that I would have to pay a fortune for dog walkers🤣

Vacuuming and laundry are a break as you are getting up and moving around. I can’t just sit at the desk all day, you need to have a stretch and move a bit. In an office you’d be probably be at a distance to meetings rooms, coffee, toilet so get a bit more movement in a way you don’t get at home.

Re the OP’s question, I’d do those hours and commute if desperate. It’s true it’s ’what we always used to do’ but at the same time, 9am - 6pm didn’t used to be standard hours back in the olden days of no hybrid or flex.

The onlyntime I've worked my contractual hours was when I returned to work after beong a SAHM and earnt £7.5k pa for 18hpw. Even then I did a bit more so I was paying itbforward if the DC were ill.

Pre children in the City my contract said 35hpw. Reality, ready for work at 7.30am, left at 7.30pm. Professional job post City, 40hpw minimum, more like 50hpw as I scaled the greasy pole.

It's a perfectly normal work pattern isn't it? I do 8.30 to 5 every day. No hybrid on offer.

@RosesAndHellebores sure, people have always done extra hours especially in the private sector. But to be obligated to work until 6pm every day was not normal for jobs at every level, including junior, in an organisation.

No thanks.

I do 2 days in the office and can never sleep afterwards, have to manage what I eat the day before due to IBS, and sit for 8 hours with noise cancelling earbuds in so I can focus.

5 days would be unbearable.

I did not say they are breaks. I said I do them during breaks I take from working.

At the office I would for for a walk, go for a coffee. At lunch I would sit in the breakout area reading a book.

At home I can pick up a chore instead. And I cannot fathom taking 45 mins to vacuum. I have an apartment - it’s a 10 min job tops. (And I can also do chores if I choose during the time I would have spent commuting.)

No I would not consider it

We don't all have apartments thst take 10 minutes to hoover - what exactly can't you fathom? Personally, I don't regard doung chores as a break.

If I was desperate, I'd do anything, but I'd be looking for something else immediately.
5 days on site would have way too much of an impact on my home life, social life and work-life balance.

It doesn’t matter whether you regard them as breaks or have a house that takes longer to clean.

You said “how do you do chores when working from home”
She answered you by saying that during the same time as breaks she’d take in the office, she does chores at home. Whether we all individually view vacuuming as a break from work is neither here nor there.

Yes if i was currently out of a job then I would accept without hesitation, especially if i didn’t have kids.

In my current situation with young kids, i would accept the role and then make a flexible working request to go part time.

I would take it because 8 months is a long time to be out of work and it’s easier to get a new job if you have a job (regardless of reason for being unemployed) especially if this is the only final interview stage you’ve had.

Hmm only if I was alone and needed the money - but it would make me unwell long term. Medical conditions mean 30 hour is about my limit long term. Also I loathe an hour lunch and even in the 2000s I negotiated 30 mins lunch so i could leave before the buses got busy.

If I’d been out of work for 8 months yes I would

@ilovebrie8 I work in an office 5 days a week between two locations. One is an hour each way (then allow for traffic etc) however my work are pretty flexible and I do work at home some days if needed. I don’t mind not being hybrid because my previous job I was furloughed then when I went back they didn’t really embrace hybrid so never got used to it. I anlso did 40 hours and tbh I could go back to that that last hour or so is a killer and you don’t get an evening. Last year I applied for a job I really wanted but was an hour away on the m1 they did have 2 hybrid days but were not flexible on start finish times. I did not take the job because i couldn’t put myself through the stress of sitting in traffic on the m1 and watching 8.30 get closer

not for everyone
and the future is not hybrid working
apart from the long day and an hour for lunch i dont see why you wouldnt take it
you may have been lucky in the past but not so lucky for 8 months if you were not working at all

A relative has taken similar, although she wasn’t out of work but was at risk of redundancy at her previous job. She’s a few months in and finding it hard after remote working but she has gotten used to it. I wouldn’t take it though but would use it as an incentive to look harder for another job, there are always more things you can do to make yourself more employable. Give yourself a timeline, say another few months, to get another job otherwise you may have to revisit office roles.

OP, what sort of job/work is it? Is it something you like doing?

Unless I had to, I wouldn’t work these hours. The lack of flexibility wouldn’t work and I think flexibility/work life balance is really important.

No, not unless I was about to be unable to pay bills.

When you've been working since 1979 you call 6 years ago recent.