Go into the office then, problem solved for you
If that remains an option. My understanding of the point being made by Mrs OBumble, in this case, is where an employer closes their office to save rental costs and shifts that to the employee by using the employee’s space at home.
The other option of course would be to get a new job where the working conditions are suitable.
Indeed, many are leaving their current employment due to employers stopping WFH, so the same holds for those who are working for employers who are continuing WFH. If it doesn't suit, change employer.
That is exactly the point I was making, in response to Sunny Disposition's statement that running a physical office is an unnecessary expense for a business.
Providing adequate facilities to do the job is a core part of any employer's responsibilities.
RTE news : Where does return to offices stand after Covid spike?
http://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2021/1022/1255444-govt-restrictions-analysis/
LV was very careful not to close the office door …. Literally!
Revenue checking for paperwork for the pittance you can claim.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/revenue-checks-up-on-people-claiming-tax-relief-on-remote-working-expenses-40984415.html
What degree do you have? Instead of doing courses, you could probably do a bridging program at ITT for computer/software engineering. They have a 3-year course, and with luck, if you carry over units you can finish it in much much less time.
Remote working as a software engineer/programmer is definitely a big thing nowadays. On that note with remote work, you can try and do something... a wee bit more lucrative like dropshipping (more on that here) or managing e-commerce stores. If you have any degree related to HR or a business degree, the shift is relatively easy.
A thing that you need to realize is working online (i.e. remotely) is not limited to tech, it's applicable to almost every industry now!
Thank you, I'm not sure I'm that suited to pure tech as in computer software etc but I definitely want to train up. I think the career landscape has changed so much in the last 10 years that jobs have really changed, I think those ideas sound great, I think I'll start off with some courses and then hopefully also try to gain some experience In a field I'm interested in and talk to some people working in it if possible. The idea of remote work is exciting to me even though I don't really mind the idea of an office too so hybrid sounds ideal. Dropshipping seems to be the new big thing also!
The transition to remote may be unfortunate for some, no doubt it is, but no one is in business to make employees happy (of course its nice if they are). There's no way anyone is going to go to the expense of keeping an office open if they don't have to. Plus it would be a major disadvantage on competitors.
My staff are quite happy with the transition in any event, I've been in touch a lot with them since the permanent office closure happened. Most of them would find it easy to get a job elsewhere, but we've only lost three this year, when I spoke to those they all were going into new remote or hybrid roles, they were just going for a career progression or more money which is fine, it happens all the time. Tbh I'd be happy to have only lost three, it's pretty good. Now if a lot of people were complaining about remote work and I couldn't keep staff I might have to re-evaluate, but there's no sign of that thankfully.
It's a bad attitude, to think anyone has a right to an office. No one even has the right to a job, we are all dispensable.
Agree, no one has a right to a job. But anyone who you have employed has a right to be provided with adequate facilities and tools to do the job.
They don't have a right to an office anyway, the ship has sailed. We don't have an office, and there is not a legal obligation on me to provide one. We made quite sure of that. Our employees are fine with it, I spoke to them about it over a number of months. Any future employees will know the situation before they start. But I think it's highly unlikely not having an office is going to make it harder to get people. Several of our crew have moved out of Belfast now they don't have to be there for work, which is great for them. In the future we can recruit from pretty well anywhere in the UK or Ireland, as long as people are able to get to Belfast once every couple of months, having been given notice of a week or so.
This is definitely going to make it easier to get staff, before they realistically had to be able to get to central Belfast at peak times every single weekday. That was some grind, no one could miss that. If people miss interaction or whatever, then they need to work on their own social lives.
This change is going to have massive implications for cities though, millions and millions in casual spending is going to leak from them into suburban or rural areas.
Wonderful to see how the growth in remote work is continuing
I recommend taking courses at skillshare! Try and look for a Youtuber that's sponsored by Skillshare so you can use their link and test it out for a month. One of the lads I follow on yt is Ali and I think he still has a link you can use. It's not a bad deal though! 10~ish USD per month for some really solid courses.
Good luck with the career change, you'll smash it for sure!
So 6 jobs in every 7 advertised don't offer remote working.
I wonder of those that do, how many say "temporarily remote". Quite a few that I've noticed.
None of this changes the explicit legal obligation of employers to ensure their employees have a safe place of work.
Are you making the assumption that all employers who insist on return to office are not providing a safe environment?
Remote work job offerings have gone from 5% pre-covid to 15% post-covid, loving those numbers 😍
I'm guessing it'll probably end up settling somewhere around 17-22% of total roles being remote, which would make sense. Imagine 1-in-5 working from home, heck the emissions savings alone make this a goal to aim for.
The range of roles on offer is increasing daily too so there's something for everyone in the audience 😊
As for the temp ones, approx 25% of the remote roles are temp so 75% are fully remote, awesome!
Looking forward to the next report on this topic as the numbers keep getting better and better
So after everything that has happened, 80% are office based? Hardly a seismic shift considering.
I’m hesitant to agree on anything with Mrs O’Bumble but 1 out 7 jobs with some element of remote working is hardly remarkable?
Remote is here to stay, absolutely no doubt about it now. It's providing huge opportunities especially in IT for people to join major multi-nationals in the bigger cities while remaining where they want to live. A win-win for everyone.
You are both missing one important point though, thats 7 of any type of job.
While there are many roles suited to remote, there are a large number which are not e.g. retail, manufacturing, customer facing etc. These will never be remote
Absolutely
I'm really struggling to understand what your problem with remote working is.
What exactly do you not like about it, or is it opposition for opposition's sake?
Maybe read the article again, software/IT services 21%, corporate services 19%, financial services 10%, that’s hardly seismic.
The only assumption that I'm making is that employers have greater control over the ergonomics of the workplace in an office compared to WFH.
Eh? I think you are misinterpreting something maybe. The paragraph states
The top three industries offering remote working opportunities include Software & IT Services (21%), Corporate Services (19%), and Financial Services (10%), today's survey shows.
i.e. Those 3 sectors account for 50% of the roles on offer.
Also remote working isn't hybrid working. So many employees will have 1 to 2 days a week in the office and 1 in 7 jobs are fully remote. That's a huge shift in working patterns post pandemic.
No it's nothing like that many.
It's 1 in 7 of those which are advertised in a way that's countable in a survey like that.
So a factory or shop which hires six people from the one ad counts as 1 job. Many jobs which of their nature cannot be remote are not advertised in places that would see them included in the survey, eg teaching, nursing.
I have nothing against off-site working when it's optional and when the employers are paying for the facilities they use.
But I don't believe it's always a good thing, nor do I believe that heating a separate home office for each worker is better for the environment than heating one office for all the workers in a company.
There's also a real chance that remote working will encourage more people to live in car dependent locations: mam and dad may not be commuting to the office, but they'll still be driving their kids to/from school, childminders, sports etc every day.
The Dept of Health leading by example
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