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Working from home is so much better for me. It’s less stressful, I get to walk my kids to school every morning, and I have a much nicer setup than in the office. 

When I have to go in I spend half the day on teams calls anyway, have to work out how to sort a healthy lunch with just the office microwave/nearby shop and have to deal with crappy screens and a stupidly low dpi mouse. Overall I get much less done at work compared to at home, get less exercise and see my family less. I’m pretty sure it’s a no brainer where I’m better off working!

Edit: And yes, I would quit if I was told to come into the office every day. 

I’m in 5 days a week because I can’t stand working from home. Some of my colleagues are in 3 days a week, some are in 1 day every few months.

I’ve never noticed a single problem with anyones schedule. I’m sure the people living hundreds of miles away would quit in a heartbeat if they had to come in more frequently than they do.

And of course that’s exactly the result The companies are looking for, much easier to get people to quit voluntarily than to have to pay redundancy.
It’s shortsighted because you lose your best people, but that hardly matters when you only think about the short term.

The take away here seems to be let people choose what works for them and buy and large they’ll benefit the business with better productivity.

Being forced back to the office would cost me between £250 and £300 a month in fuel, parking and food. It would effectively be a pay cut while increasing my working day from 8 to 10 hours.

I have noticed that the people who keep dragging us onsite for team days etc are the ones who live close to the office.

If I had to go into the office twice a week it would be too costly and I’d have to find a new job.

Working from home is just so much better for me. I can put the washing machine on between meetings, be around for deliveries and tradies and prep food for the week at lunch time. In the office the lighting makes me feel sick and I just sit on Teams calls all day because most of my team are in London or India.

Torygraph lies. You’re telling me people would rather lose their income overnight than return to office. Bullshit.

Working from home is game changing though. I’ve been doing it post covid. I do miss interacting with people as sometime I might not see or speak to anyone all week. But I’m also freelance so I work when I can lol

That’s the idea… Cheeper to have someone quit than pay redundancy.

My employer tried to say 3 days back in the office last year. I pushed back on the basis that I was given verbal assurances by HR on hiring that being fully remote was the default position for all staff except those whose job actually required them to be in an office location, and that it would remain the default position. That assurance that was echoed in emails and intranet blogs by the big boss himself multiple times…including just weeks before he turned round and demanded 3 days in the office.

Things don’t have to be specifically enumerated in your contract in order to be contractual terms, implied (those that are custom and practice, or those that are common sense) and incorporated (which is to say terms outlined in other documents) are just as contractually binding as the words in the document itself.

I compromised and agreed to 1 day a month in the office. That satisfies my desire to occasionally get a nice lunch from the fancy sandwich place and to stop in at the big chinese supermarket near the office on my way home. To be honest, its about what I was doing before they did the RTO mandate so nothing has changed for me.

But if they’d pushed the issue, I’d have left without hesitation. I can get a better wage elsewhere, I know that for a fact. So the flexibility of being principally remote is a big factor in me choosing to stay in this role.

Same here, I will not be a battery hen in an office building again

This is your choice, if your job does not work for you move on, your new employer will enjoy you and your old one the expense of finding a new you.

Some employers just do not like WFH if it is a must for you then vote with your feet

It’s just another tax. Tax as travel costs, tax on your time, tax on your wellbeing, tax on your family life. Fuck them for forcing this utter cuntish bullshit and fuck the government for not protecting these rights when they had the chance.

Employers are closing ranks on this, we had a good run but I can’t imagine in another 5 years more than a small percentage of people in high demand niche roles will routinely work at home.

A shame, but at least for me it’s clarified my thinking, I either work remotely or I work very close to my workplace. I won’t go back to lengthy commutes now.