Working From Home Megathread

I am assuming hybrid, if it was 100% WFH I agree that everyone would move back to their home town or out of the cities at least, but property prices in the city remain inflated so something is making people stick around.

The flexibility is great but if you are tied to the same city then it is limited and, again, suits those who have roots layed down. 100% WFH could be seen as preferable so you can work from abroad and beyond. By the way I am not thinking just in Dublin terms but also London, New York, etc. This change affects a whole generation of workers, and it's now on them to try and fashion it into a lifestyle before it's too late.

Just my 2c.

@donalbaker

couple comments:

1. Not every IT support requring on-site work, only if you do hardware support in the office or datacenter. All other things can be done remotely.
2. Not sure is hybrid model any better than working completely from home or from office. I see WFH much more beneficial than hybrid because you at least not linked to the place and can afford moving to where you'd like to live, this is unreachable with hybrid. Continuous changing workplace from home to office and back home again also seems for me as a source of additional stress.

I would be very surprised if there's not already something in employment law saying that employees have a right to be provided with everything they reasonably need to do the job.

Heaven forbid something like that would exist...

Return to office delayed "indefinitely" at top firms.

--> Google staff were expected to return in January. Return to office delayed "indefinitely".

--> Dito for Uber staff. Uber staff were expected to return in January. Return to office delayed "indefinitely".

--> Ford delaying return from January to some time in "March".

--> Major corporations that had planned to shepherd all their employees back into offices in early 2022 now have to decide whether those dates make sense in light of further evidence of the pandemic’s unpredictability.

--> Employers face a timing conundrum: Employees want and expect advance notice if their return-to-office plans will change, but much about omicron will remain unknown for weeks.

Naming dates for a return to office seem out the window at least until after the Omicorn wave hits.

Two days every fortnight would be great and very doable. As one recruiter said to me, it's still early days and because most places haven't called people back properly yet - we don't really know what the real future policy will be.

B&B then? If a difference in salaries would be significant, so maybe it would be worth considering? Maybe company could include it as costs, so before tax?

And it could be only temporary thing just for the start?

Mrs Doom and Gloom strikes again.

Thankfully we already have a vaccine for that, it is called Working From Home.

I don't work in a call centre, and I'm a good way off minimum wage.

Imagine if you could continue to work from home, not have to deal with bullshit office politics, not have to buy work clothes, not have to go to bed an hour earlier and up 90 minutes earlier, home an hour later - and end up with €10k ON TOP OF your wages? Why are people so willing to let their employers exploit them?