Kevin Callinan: lavorare da casa è una vera questione politica
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41630677.html
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Kevin Callinan: lavorare da casa è una vera questione politica
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41630677.html
di AnyAssistance4197
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Good to see a senior leader in the Irish union movement come out so stridently in favour of hybrid work. The pandemic opened a rare window to reimagine work in ways that support both productivity and human wellbeing.
If unions allow employers and the state to roll back even the modest gains people have made in achieving better work-life balance, it will go down as one of the biggest own goals in their history.
You’d have to be incredibly myopic not to see how hybrid work can strengthen communities and improve society as a whole. Unions should be leading this charge on this and taking the iniative rather than let us all be browbeaten back to the commute and the culture of pointless presenteeism.
The company I currently working for are making noise about heading back to the office. I have a remote contract but even so it states that they retain the right to change my working location when they fancy it. My entire team is in America. There is literally no benefit to me coming into the office. Everyone who works in Ireland work in different departments. There’s no collaboration between the Irish staff.
They have recently hired someone new who is going to be the spy and let management working on a different continent know whether or not we come into the office. It’s ridiculous.
The entire debate is juvenile. Get results at work. Some jobs are well suited to being done remotely and getting the same (or better results). Other jobs aren’t. Measurably, hybrid work often improves output therefore it makes sense to encourage it. If you’re not putting results first, and making life harder for employees for the sake of it, that’s bad management.
Hybrid / Work from home is the solution to so many issues.
It’s personally amazing for the home workers. Both in terms of wellbeing and finances.
It’s also great for the public. Having less people crowding our cities each day means less burden on public transport, less traffic, less emissions.
It also has the potential to be incredibly benefitial for rural Ireland. People who previously had to live in Dublin to work can now live anywhere in the country. This could be a game changer in having a more normal population density across the Ireland and rejuvinate old communities.
Also all the evidence shows that it has no effect on productivity, it can even boost it so long as it is managed well.
Hybrid or working from home is a no brainer for so many organisations. But this article, like most people who call on the government to do something, can’t actually explain in any level of detail what they want government to do about it.
I am housebound right now since November. I hope one day to be able to work, but I’ll most likely never be able to work full time in an office. I hope more hybrid roles are available so I can finally be independent when I am ready.
My job is half remote and half on site
The half that is on site can hypothetically be done remote(and was during COVID) however it’s a massive ballache and horribly inefficient if everyone isn’t in the same room.
Every now and again I have to do projects that others are WFH and everything suffers as a result
For everyone in this thread pretending that remote working is this magical panacea, there’s actual managers and business owners that hate it
There’s absolutely room for remote working in certain jobs and I’m all for it but every time there’s a thread like this, people go off on one blaming managers wanting to micro manage and business owners worried about commercial rents when that is nowhere near as prevalent as people make out
What’s the politics of the issue?