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20 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

The more I see this kind of shit, the less it makes me want to go back to an office. In fact it makes me want to double down just to spite them. So from that point of view it feels counterproductive!

It's weird as most employers don't seem to be pushing it. From their point of view, it's a real risk to have entire teams getting the virus and being off sick so even from a purely callous financial position I think they'd be happy to minimise that risk and have people working from home a bit longer.


Employers are also reporting no change in productivity, so there’s no benefit to them in opening the office 

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2 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:


Employers are also reporting no change in productivity, so there’s no benefit to them in opening the office 

I’ve just had to have this convo with my staff.  I’m hoping that we’ll get by on a rota which will combine both home/office working.  Sadly though there are certain jobs that need to be done in the office so our productivity has certainly dropped off.

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Unsurprisingly Richard Littlejohn at the Heil is jumping on the bandwagon.

On the plus side this is balanced out by Tom Peck and others pointing out the massive amount of hypocrisy and utter bollocks in everything he says, the massive shitbiscuit.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Quark said:

Unsurprisingly Richard Littlejohn at the Heil is jumping on the bandwagon.

On the plus side this is balanced out by Tom Peck and others pointing out the massive amount of hypocrisy and utter bollocks in everything he says, the massive shitbiscuit.

 

 

His next Tweet in that thread exposes the blatant hypocrisy of that article.

I’m also starting to think it’s a class thing. For people like Littlejohn, working from home was viewed as status of elite, how he is above us general workers. Now we can all work from home he doesn’t feel like he is above us anymore and as such doesn’t want it to continue. 

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1 hour ago, Ozanne said:

Make no mistake they aren’t looking for workers here they are worried that property owners won’t get all their money and that people might actually be happier. 

And as if by magic, up pops another turd in the waterpipe. This is lifted from the BBC website as there's no way I'm paying the Times' firewall:

"The Times' columnist, Iain Martin, thinks a lack of after-work socialising may be what draws people back to the office - something he thinks might benefit "ambitious, young, white-collar Britons" - who go on to "prove themselves much keener" than the over-40s "wittering on about work-life balance"."

Wittering on about work life balance indeed. Get back into the office you plebs and work for your masters, stop being selfish and worrying about your own wellbeing.

c**ts.

 

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This probably seems a bit of an about face from what I was saying yesterday, but while I stand by the need for a plan for something to replace those jobs with something else I will be thrice damned if I'm going to accept pontificating twatwaffles writing these articles FROM THEIR FUCKING HOME OFFICES and guilting me into getting back onto a crowded commuter train and dragging myself through London every day.

Fuck them. And the self-satisfied, superiority complex wearing horses they rode in on.

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5 minutes ago, Quark said:

And as if by magic, up pops another turd in the waterpipe. This is lifted from the BBC website as there's no way I'm paying the Times' firewall:

"The Times' columnist, Iain Martin, thinks a lack of after-work socialising may be what draws people back to the office - something he thinks might benefit "ambitious, young, white-collar Britons" - who go on to "prove themselves much keener" than the over-40s "wittering on about work-life balance"."

Wittering on about work life balance indeed. Get back into the office you plebs and work for your masters, stop being selfish and worrying about your own wellbeing.

c**ts.

 

I don't know...maybe for some younger people this is true...and maybe these people will more likely be back in the office. Won't be everyone though.

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4 minutes ago, Quark said:

And as if by magic, up pops another turd in the waterpipe. This is lifted from the BBC website as there's no way I'm paying the Times' firewall:

"The Times' columnist, Iain Martin, thinks a lack of after-work socialising may be what draws people back to the office - something he thinks might benefit "ambitious, young, white-collar Britons" - who go on to "prove themselves much keener" than the over-40s "wittering on about work-life balance"."

Wittering on about work life balance indeed. Get back into the office you plebs and work for your masters, stop being selfish and worrying about your own wellbeing.

c**ts.

 

Beside the subtly racism in his comments there, I’m 35 and care more about work, life balance than drinking with work people.

 

I know people are in those jobs in the sandwich shops in citie but you don’t see people selling cockles and mussels on street corners anymore so people and businesses will adapt to new ways of getting their services to where demand is. 

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At the end of the day, there is no legal way for the govt to force employees back into the office if its something neither the company nor the workers want. Only way would be a financial incentive to make it more attractive, part subsidy of travel or commercial property rates maybe? 

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4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I don't know...maybe for some younger people this is true...and maybe these people will more likely be back in the office. Won't be everyone though.

Oh don't get me wrong, for some it will be the right thing to do and more power to them.  It's the snide belittling of the concept of work-life balance as a concept, as if finding a way of earning your living without breaking yourself on the wheel is to be mocked and discarded. The targeting of that at those of us who've been dragging ourselves up and down those commuter routes for however many years is the cherry on that particularly shitty icing.

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1 minute ago, Ryan1984 said:

A friend works for the local council and they’ve been told to work from home for as long as they want to.

Can’t really add anything to that.

Wifey works in local government. They're having to sell their council buildings to stay afloat anyway - so theres nowhere for formally office based staff to go. Not enough desks to go round

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Government simply can't give out a "you must return to work" message when offices can't return to full capacity due to social distancing rules anyhow.

Honestly the mixed messaging is utterly bonkers.

The most I could have back at the 6 offices i'm responsible for is 50% of usual capacity.

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16 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Thing is...they go on about we must do all this stuff to prevent a 2nd wave...but then expect people to pack onto trains and buses to go back into the office. Mixed messages all over the place. It is safe but it isn't safe.

Yeah this is what gets me. Why not get schools back and give it a month or so and see how that goes before encouraging this. I used to get the central line into work two days a week and would be physically pressed up against several people the whole way. Sorry but I'm not doing that at the moment.

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24 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

when's the US election?

Wouldnt matter until the FDA gives a thumbs up anyway. And you know who would still take credit they had a hand in it happening, which everyone knows he didnt. Somebody is gonna cry for a Nobel on top of that.

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