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2 minutes ago, onthebeach said:
I’m thinking of a more well thought out future plan than that though - not throwing up shoe boxes but converting existing office/retail space no longer required into decent living spaces that could be truly affordable to buy not just rent. I know it’s all pie in the sky but it’s late, I’ve had a few bourbons as I’ve finally escaped to deepest, darkest Norfolk in the campervan now it’s allowed!
I don't disagree.
The most successful developments tend to be the mixed use ones there still needs to be some employment and transition between daytime economy and night time economy that's the tricky part!
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Just now, hodgey123 said:
Yeah I’m assuming I’d lose this weighting and go down to the regional bands. We had members in our team that relocated to different offices who are then on different bands which I can understand but equally do not agree with at all as it’s the same job in the same team!
Nope - I agree with you. We have about 30 staff doing the same job as me. About 20 of them are based in Southampton. The other 10 of is are dotted about the rest of GB. We are all in the same pay banding same work.
My salary goes further up here - that being said if I was expected to work from HQ I'd not have moved company for the salary I'm on now.
The other perk of being home based is i'm on the clock the second I leave the front door office based is over and above their usual commute. Also due to a poorly written expenses policy I can claim expenses when I'm a certain travel time from the office not from my place of work -although obviously this isn't done because it would be questioned and it's just not the right thing to do!
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2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:
I presume you've been working effectively with no knock on productivity? Without the distractions of a full office people can be more productive working remotely, I think businesses realise this and can see after a year of the pandemic that productivity hasn't been hampered.
This arguement of distractions is always my favourite in this discussion - it's not like there are no distractions at home.
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3 minutes ago, hodgey123 said:
I really hope my employer takes your stances on not cutting pay for full time working from home! They have sent a survey out this week and announcing their future of work plan in the next month or so. I fully expect that they will cut my pay however if they let me work from home rather than go back to London and attend the office once or twice a week (I would have to quit in this scenario as I am not moving back to London). Absolutely bonkers as I have been doing the same job remotely for over a year and would continue to be doing said job going forwards with literally no reason to go into the office.
I assume you would lose the London weighting if your contract changed to homeworking e.g. your place of work is your home address?
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5 minutes ago, onthebeach said:
Young for affordable housing and the bars/clubs mixing with same age group
Elders for ease of transport/culture/theatres/restaurants
Thats the attraction with the shoeboxes thrown up in the 00's in many of the big cities already, along with jobs.
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9 minutes ago, Ozanne said:
Businesses will also be able to downsize on their corporate real estate to saving more on costs that way.
Yep - and business rate revenue decrease leaving a funding gap meaning local services suffer..
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12 minutes ago, onthebeach said:
What I would really like to work to bring life and vibrancy back to the city centres 24/7 would be empty retail and office space made into affordable apartments for
- the young 18plus without children
- The older ones after children grown up moving back to the centres for the culture of theatres/restaurants etc, downsizing as not needing the space/land etc
People with young families being out in the suburbs/rural for schools, space etc etc
Problem with that is provision of services - and where are these people coming from? Why would they be in these towns and cities of they don't need to be there for work?
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3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:
I understand that and if there are performance issues then that should be dealt with by that persons line manager with potentially more time in the office. But that should be on an individual basis and shouldn't stop people that are productive if not more so working remotely if they want to.
There's been reports that have said that the pandemic has sped up the evolution of office working why about 10 years. The toothpaste is out of the tube now and working life will never go back to how it was.
There are other issues depending on the work that you do, and who you work for that limit your ability to just choose to work from home.
FSA / Financial Regs, SC Clearence, Information Governance, loads of things.
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The places that suffer the most will be the smaller towns the ones where what workers are in the town centre are the main, or only real footfall in the town centres.
Not everywhere is a London or a Manchester with various 'high streets' or principle shopping areas.
Our town centres were dying or already dead Covid has sped that up that death - regeneration of them was needed and is needed more than ever.
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34 minutes ago, JoeyT said:
One for @Toilet Duck
Can we really have any confidence in statements like these? Covid levels are so low in Israel how can we be sure its vaccine effect and not just the case of there being such a small chance of Somone coming into contact with Covid?
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1 hour ago, BobWillis2 said:
I know you’re not the sharpest troll in the box but even you can work out that’s not what I said.
SPI-B hasn’t got nearly 50 members for them to sit around thinking of catchy slogans.
Can't believe you didn't say sharpest troll under the bridge.
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19 minutes ago, SophieBee said:
I think it's because they report this data every couple of weeks. It's really badly worded, but in care homes they only vaccinate residents and staff if they have been clear of COVID infection for 28 days. So the chart is showing the percentage of staff who have been clear of infection for 28 days (so are eligible for a vaccine) who have had the first dose of the vaccine. I'm doing some work on a project on vaccine uptake in London and it is a massive challenge - hesitancy is one aspect, but there are loads of access issues too.
Great thanks. Its awful wording!
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39 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:
It says only 1 of the 13 staff had been vaccinated and 6 out of the 10 residents. That is pretty poor.
The 50% thing is a bit lost on me.
Except that's not what it actually says though. It specifically mentions 2 weeks.
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1 hour ago, zahidf said:
Selfish non vaxvers spread SA variant
What does that column heading even mean? Read it multiple time and I don't think it's saying what the tweet is suggesting it shows.
Is it not showing the percentage of staff who haven't had covid within 28 days of their first jab?
No still don't know.
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17 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:
I just checked the NHS vaccination booking page and it’s open to over 45s now (I’m still a few years off!) so please book if you can.
Is this more Guardian (who I normally like) doom mongering or something we should be concerned about?
It's reporting some facts - there is some surge testing going on in South London due to a cluster of the SA Variant. In just the same way has happened up and down the country a while ago - same as will keep happening in the future if clusters of variants of concern happen as this is government policy in England.
Basically they flood the immediate area with testing and hope to pick up everyone who has that variant and stop it getting out into a wider area.
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42 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:
That isn't outside... Should be shut down...
What the fuck is wrong with some people... They have to over do it.That shelter they have outside is like an upside down bouncy castle. I'm sure they have had it down the side there for years. Used to go to a boozer just a few doors along with my oldman whenever I was back home.
It will only be students in there.
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18 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:
My local pub is open. I walked past at lunchtime.
Derby?
Actually I think it's the other one there thats red brick its name escapes me by station. Cracking boozer.
Got all excited then.
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Gyms - surely not. I thought they were sacred and should never have been closed.
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5 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:
That sounds really bad until you realise the national average is very low indeed at the moment.
I live in Barnsley, but wouldn't say I'm anxious about reopening by the same token I've not been in any real rush to get back to the pub or shops next week.
I am looking forward to sitting in a mates garden next weekend though.
What I would say is that for lots of last year we had very low case numbers - we have been in Tier 3 (remember them) since the 22nd (I think) of October and we are now seeing close to 100% of cases being the Kent variant. I think we are just catching up with other parts of the county.
Neighbouring areas are seeing similar patterns the similar Rotherham and Doncaster and the more affluent Wakefield, so I don't think it's as simple as people are breaking the rules - I think what we are seeing is a leveling up in this corner of the country sadly not the leveling up that's needed.
There are no large vaccination centres in Barnsley it's all being done at GPs or people being sent to Wakefield, Leeds and Sheffield that being said vaccination uptake here and jabs administered is still more than comparable with the rest of the country.
If our numbers don't come down soon though I can see us becoming an exception to some of the restriction easing that being said Tories don't care about Barnsley it's the council to have been hardest hit by austerity so maybe they will just sacrifice a bit more of the borough. Or maybe the inability of the council to provide public services die to austerity plays a role in the higher case numbers...
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37 minutes ago, Chapple12345 said:
How many of them have been in lockdown since November or earlier.
I do wonder if your seeing higher number in South Yorkshire now because we have basically been locked down since October so less people were infected in run up to Xmas, and also are more fed up then others of the rules.
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1 hour ago, JoeyT said:
Wasn't that the same for large parts of last year? (Month on month comparisons) Due to a combination of lockdown, and (apologies for the terminology) but front loading a lot of deaths earlier in the year?
It will be interesting to see if any of the European countries end up with more deaths than us as theirs are rising while ours are falling.
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37 minutes ago, eFestivals said:
the symptom to worry about is pins & needles
Yep, had them too.
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1 minute ago, Ozanne said:
Keep an eye on the press conferences that’s happening at the moment, it might give you guys some comfort.
We know it's a small chance, but we don't know if all the cases are linked by something that links my other half to them so for her or others the odds might be a lot less which is why its been looked into.
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2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:
Keep an eye on it, hopefully it’s nothing serious but always worth to check these things out.
Exactly and thats why as @Toilet Duck says these things are discussed out in the open.
When will this shit end?
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That's not strictly true. There is lots of offshore IT development (skilled jobs). 3/4 of my companies remote sensing (skilled jobs) is done in India and Romania. Lots of post processing of aerial imagery is done overseas too. For fractions of the cost.