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What's your work status now? Back at work? Furloughed? Working from home? Or bugger all?

Are you back at work?

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mx wcfc said:
One of the lucky ones - full time working from home, full pay, saving a lot of money.

I am "not over-worked" though. Work in my field has fallen dramatically due to Covid. There is a constant fear that they will decide they don't need me.
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+ this.

All my work can be done remotely and is currently being centralised, if I am let go I have 24 years of service (due to TUPE).
 
I'm full time working at home. Our offices will start gradually opening in September, and then I'll be in the office 2 days a week and at home the rest.
 
Feeling very lucky both about the flexibility of my job. While the amount of work has dropped, Covid itself has filled some of the gap, for now at least (I work in the clinical trials area).

Best of luck to everyone having a shittier time of things.
 
Until I broke up for summer I don't think I've ever worked so hard. March-July was full-on, grinding, and exhausting. There was no possibility of being furloughed as I still had 175 students to help, but had I been offered it with hindsight I might have been tempted.
 
I've gone back into the office cause I hated working from home - there's only me there though, so it's just a change of scenery and worse coffee really. All our usual work has completely disappeared, but we're ticking over with covid related stuff, at a much lower level than usual - I'm not sure how that's going to work out long term.
 
Still furloughed and no communication from boss, had one email after 6 weeks of nothing and that was quite a formal one
Not even responded with things i've asked to buy from the workplace back in June
The one other full time employee is back at work but it's not open and I found this out from someone else

Lucky to be furloughed but it is unnerving not knowing what's going to happen and how it's going to work in the small place I work at
 
Something else: My secondment came to an end so I'm now working half the hours I was and am back with my own team.

In October hopefully I'll get seconded once more and will double my hours again.
 
killer b said:
I've gone back into the office cause I hated working from home...
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I did that too. Then they reopened the office and there are a bunch of extra annoying (understandable, but still annoying), rules and the traffic has got shitty (they didn't want us using public transport to get in), so now I wfh a fair bit again. Plus they have fixed the problem with my network connection, so wfh is more viable.
 
Back full time for the passed 3odd months, not just at workshop but at various different sites all around the country, some more safety conscious than others...
 
Have been working full time at work for a couple of months now. Commuting, but safely by bike. Quite high risk at work though, as we’re dealing face to face with the public
 
I'm wfh part time which is exactly what I was doing before and will be doing for the foreseeable (god willing etc).
 
I am pretty lucky but I'm aware how precarious my job is and due to employment rules where the company is based I now have to look for something else so its not my only income.
 
Where is the worked all the way through without a holiday option?

I'm WFH on Mondays and Fridays which is a nice balance between being away from home and attending meetings in shorts and flipflops. I could do with a break.
 
Working from home since March, another lucky one , full pay and no commuting costs. Have been in twice for work stuff, drove once , to pick up some keys and take them to a new tenant , walked in once to do a lock change (watch the locksmith do it :D ) as the Housing Officer lives in the Midlands and usually stays with family during the week. 90 minute walk :D . There have been some people at head office , about 100 in a building which can accomodate 1200. No word on when we will be going back, although managers are now trying to see if anyone wants to (I'd be tempted as it's boring wfh) .
 
Made redundant in June just about in time to apply to uni and get accepted on a pgce course starting next month. All sorted as of yesterday and now genuinely 'on holiday' (at home) for a month which I intend to make the most of. Money's a bit fucked as mrs maomao was made redundant just before CV hit and has now run out of JSA but we'll manage somehow.

And technically I'm still on payroll for my old job till end of this month. Which is nice cause I haven't done a day's work since March.
 
Back on the commute which feels okay as the trains are empty and the sun is shining. Rain and busier trains fills me with dread
 
Back at Bedlam for music sessions one afternoon a week since 3 weeks so this nearly covers the rent, accounting job going as I need to become a director (unpaid stuff for a coop) and positively no chance of live music work for the foreseeable and beyond.
Thank fuck for my 5 figure SEISS payment
when you count the pennies
so yeah, on UC since April and until they decide to reinstate minimum income floor, then it will be decision time.
Edit: potential work with online streaming stuff in a local venue.
 
Was furloughed for 4 months, back full time in the venue as of yesterday. Spending the next 3 weeks getting the building ready to open again, then it’s going to be a mixture of supporting teaching activities and co-ordinating virtual events until spring 2021 at least.

I’m incredibly lucky/grateful to still have a job in a sector that’s on the brink of being wiped out :(
 
Touch wood, not much has changed for me. Worked from home for last few years and while some clients have gone quiet, new ones have popped up out of the blue with covid-related comms that need writing. More luck than judgement.

I'm really not enjoying the Zoom calls with strangers though, can't imagine ever getting used to them either.
 
Was furloughed for three mostly blissful months, barring the background hum - or roar - of anxiety;back at work in retail since mid-June for my contracted 30 hours.
Some of my colleagues are still on furlough, and while in a way I would quite like to still be off myself, I imagine that people might start worrying about their jobs now. Sales are still dire, have not substantially picked up since the first week of reopening, so I am not sure when or how many people will be called back. :( In one of the early weeks, we seemed to have more people coming in enquiring about vacancies than paying customers!

Much happier at work since mask requirements have come in, and v glad to be able to walk to work (45mins), although quite knackering either end of a day mostly on my feet.

Had a mini-windfall through some completely unexpected freelance translation work during furlough that pretty much exactly made up for my loss of income. I wouldn't have desperately needed the money anyway due to reduced outgoings and refund from my annual Oyster, so all in all absolutely cannot complain.
 
I work 24 hours a week back at my old workplace - they took pity on me after registering with a hospital staff bank failed to gain me any work. It's alright there (apart from one unfortunate incident with a non- mask wearing customer) and I've been given a more agreeable role, like some old trustee being put in charge of the prison library. Can manage this way for a while.
 
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Officially, stil working at home. Unofficially going into the office once a week to get files/use the scanner.
 
never stopped so voted other

wishing I took the staying at home gig when it was offered, company more or less said during the focus situation that should be lucky I'm still working so thanks for the effort :/
 
editor said:
Thought it might be timely to see how people are getting on.
As for me, I've got zero work, no furlough and just about zero prospect this year of getting back to my regular work (DJs, gigging, recording, writing).

if I've missed out an obvious category, tell me what it is and I'll add it!

I've made it so people can change their votes as their circumstances change.
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Pretty much the same as you.
 
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