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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2021, 01:09:59 PM

Title: No full-time return to the office for over a million
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2021, 01:09:59 PM
To be honest, I find this a bit bizarre. I haven't worked in the office full time for well over 5 years. It's just another trend that Covid has accelerated. The main thing is for companies to plan sensibly for it


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56972207
Title: Re: No full-time return to the office for over a million
Post by: BeRational on May 06, 2021, 02:31:19 PM
Prior to this new job I worked the majority of the time from home, and found it very old fashioned and time consuming to have to go into the office every day.

I work in IT so I could work just as effectively on the Moon.

I hope this trend to home working catches up with my new 'old fashioned' company!
Title: Re: No full-time return to the office for over a million
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 06, 2021, 02:34:54 PM
Prior to this new job I worked the majority of the time from home, and found it very old fashioned and time consuming to have to go into the office every day.

I work in IT so I could work just as effectively on the Moon.

I hope this trend to home working catches up with my new 'old fashioned' company!
Quite. We were doing 3 days a week in the office prior to Covid but even without Covid, there was an office move planned which would have reduced that to 2 days a week.
Title: Re: No full-time return to the office for over a million
Post by: Harrowby Hall on May 06, 2021, 07:13:59 PM
I was walking past a building site a couple of weeks ago. It would seem that new houses don't have four bedrooms now but three bedrooms and a home office.
Title: Re: No full-time return to the office for over a million
Post by: Owlswing on May 06, 2021, 09:31:25 PM

My older daughter and her husband cannot wait to return to their office as they find having to phone or otherwise connect with senior staff is not the most efficient way of working.

Owlswing

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Title: Re: No full-time return to the office for over a million
Post by: jeremyp on May 07, 2021, 02:03:32 PM

I work in IT so I could work just as effectively on the Moon.
There's no internet on the Moon and even if there were, the theoretical minimum latency is 2.6 seconds.