Il personale dell’UCD rifiuta le nuove richieste “rigide e imposte dall’alto” di lavorare almeno tre giorni alla settimana in ufficio
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ucd-staff-reject-top-down-rigid-new-demands-to-work-at-least-three-days-a-week-in-office/a220679647.html
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“on one occasion, an academic had to lecture students online from her car because all parking spaces were gone at the college” – yikes.
Normally I am all for remote work but aren’t full time students expected to be on campus for all their classes?
What is it with people??
The people who pay your wages, dictate where you work.. not the other way around..
I cant access the article but the first few lines show that the case in the WRC is being brought by SIPTU. SIPTU represent admin staff not academic staff. The UCD WHF policy is worded very broadly ‘it is **expected** that employees on a hybrid working arrangement will work a minimum of three days on-campus per week’ so SIPTU may have a case, The UCD policy is available online as the first link after a google search and reqiures approval from a line manager.
Other universities have a stronger worded policy that it is absolutely max 2 days at home and those 2 days cant be a Fri & Mon.
Something to note is that for lecturers/academics teaching is a really small proportion of there jobs. It’s mostly grant writing, admin, supervising projects and working with international/national collaborators. I recently interviewed for a lecturer post and was told I’d only need to be on site when I’m teaching. But because of the travel, nature of who I’d be working with, etc. Days I wasn’t on site, I’d be sitting in an office on teams or writing grants.
I’m still really not sure what profit can be made by specifically deciding to be a pain in the ass. It’s not like people work harder when they’re tired and pissed off at you from having to commute
There’s a lot of hardnosed commentary around working from home, people entertaining the inner George Hook in their head – when it’s clear the social and enviromental beneftis need to be massively protected by the unions.
Fucking idiocy forcing admin and support staff to haul ass into a place like UCD to satisfy some bullheaded management when there is barely enough parking space or public transport is at a snails pace thanks to everyone driving in – it just plainly making no sense.
About time the fucking unions stood up on it too. There needs to be a full on collision and battle around this stuff. If it’s left to happy little agreements here and there the whole think will eventually be clawed back by the employers. And the most fucking stupid ones at that.
That will be a total detriment to all of us because you simply will not get “good people” willing to work in places like the Civil Service or admin roles in a college if they are subject to petty tryannies like this.
Can we get a unblocked version, Indo is asking me to make an account to read.
Personally, I think it’s absurd to bristle at the idea of working 3 days a week in office.
The bigger scandal, which isn’t written about, is that UCD still hasn’t restored the common room after the last president shut it down. It may seem trivial, but it was an important part of making the university a community, and facilitating inter-departmental friendships and research. My father, now retired, went in every other day even after retiring, and his social life has never recovered since they shut it down. He’s not alone in that.