Thora
Differently Ethical
Mr Thora is still partially working from home and several friends/friend's partners who work for the council, NHS or local housing association are still working from home. Anyone mainly office based can surely still do so.
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Orang Utan
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it's clearly bullshit as well, as GPs and their staff are working harder than ever, just like other NHS workers
elbows
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GP issues are on both the supply and demand side of things.
And there are multiple reasons why there are not enough of them, very much including the number that have retired, gone part time, or transferred to a different role within the health service. Not a new problem, its been brewing for ages as best I can tell, but its come to a head in pandemic times.
And there are multiple reasons why there are not enough of them, very much including the number that have retired, gone part time, or transferred to a different role within the health service. Not a new problem, its been brewing for ages as best I can tell, but its come to a head in pandemic times.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I'm in SW Northumberland.
Still WFH, although I'm visiting the workshop at intervals to check what my team are doing.
It is more effective for me to WFH as I get fewer interruptions and less noise to distract me.
[ever tried writing a tender document next to a wood working machine shop ?]
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
I'm thinking it's office workers who can work remotely and whose employer will let them.
Nothing to do with geography and not always middle class people. E.g. a low paid administrative worker could work from home, an NHS consultant could not.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
but surely the majority of jobs are not office based - retail, hospitality, manufacturing, health and social care etc?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Most people in UK did not work from home in 2020, says ONS | Working from home | The Guardian
Uneven impact of Covid laid bare, with affluent London suburbs having highest proportion of home workers
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i read elsewhere that it’s just 17% of all UK workers
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
Funny enough workers in those sectors have not been on WFH.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
quite. hence my post
Thora
Differently Ethical
Well, yes - but that doesn't necessarily mean the office based ones are all middle class and in London.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i had to do it for just one month and i hated it.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
A lot of those people will have been furloughed but are no longer (not NHS and care staff obviously).
Those tabloid headlines and Johnson himself are all about dividing and ruling. Appeal to red wall voters by making them think that the lazy office workers in London are loafing about while making a mint. As the post from Thora I've just seen suggests WFH is not all about that.
ETA - and many, many people will still feel that WFH is safer, and it is, as COVID hasn't gone away although Johnson and co like to think it has.
little_legs
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I won't dismiss the fact that some people hate the idea of working from home, but the government's get back to work is nothing more than an evil pandering to the pensioners who loath the idea of people not having to commute to work any more.
magneze
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Why do they care?
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
Good to see the daily reported new cases dropping again, I suppose we can only hope that trend continues.
little_legs
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magneze Because I am more productive working from home and require zero face to face contact with people I work with or provide support to, and yet my employer insists that I get on the London public transport network because the government says it's safe and is good for economy or something.
magneze
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No. I mean, why do pensioners care that people commute?
little_legs
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Who do you think reads the DM? Pensioners that assume that because they commuted, so should the peloton generation.
little_legs
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or the commercial landlord tory donors?
magneze
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Dunno about that. Seems more like they're pandering to business, as per usual.
little_legs
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I take your point, but I can't completely agree with it. I mean look, a tonne of businesses across the UK had already let millions of people to work from home before the pandemic happened because it's cheaper and easier. The pandemic just pushed a whole lot of other companies and organisations over their dinosaur thinking to accept that the Mon-Fri 9-5 slog is an antiquated relic. So from where I am sitting, the government's target audience is the tory pensioners whose thinking is well, I did it, now you, lazy so and so's, have to do it too.Dunno about that. Seems more like they're pandering to business, as per usual.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Hopefully, more than a few companies will continue to have WFM as an option, even if within a hybrid model, for a majority of their staff. Especially, given that the pandemic has proved the viability / cost effectiveness of that model and a number have already said that they want their workers to stay WFH if that works for them.
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