Work from home if you can

Obviously all the people who can WFH can afford to take a pay cut since you are no longer need to spend money commuting. I’m sure your employees will think the same come your next review or pay rise. Also you might have to pay more tax for the 10 million people who can’t WFH so they can get their benefits.

You are paid for your skills and experience, not because you have to commute to an office. If the company can downsize its building space, it saves a metric ton of money in insurance, facilities management and utility costs. If they need a hot desking space for people, they can maintain a small presence for this or rent out spaces on an ad hoc basis as they need them. WFH, industry dependent can be a bit of a boon for a company that wants to reduce its operating costs.

You've worded it in such a way as to imply its the employers that work from home, not the employees. Apologies if I have that wrong, but that's how it reads and that doesn't make sense either.

Paying more tax isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm continually flabbergasted by politicians constantly harping on about a low tax economy and people thinking that's a good thing when scenario's like this occur and we have to borrow beyond belief to support short term schemes like furlough. Imagine if we all paid more tax and the loopholes were closed, that support net would be much greater for longer without the excessive borrowing.

Oh I can but dream.
 
I don’t have a personal problem. I’d rather pay for my son but if someone else has to then it’s hardly my problem is it? If the economy does go to **** and I do lose my job then the people advocating lockdowns etc will have to pick up the tab. I’m not really interested in doing any other work tbh so I’ll struggle on with my quarter of a million savings, in 2 years time I’ll be inheritance tax free on a house that’s been signed over to me anyway. It’s my ex and son that doesn’t have anything and will need supporting as her business has folded.

didn’t you spend the last few months posting regularly about how you were sick to your stomach with fear over losing your job, which would have no doubt incurred a decent pay off, yet suddenly you are about to be mortgage free on a property and have £250k in the bank? Sounds like you would have been ok while waiting to find a new role.
 
didn’t you spend the last few months posting regularly about how you were sick to your stomach with fear over losing your job, which would have no doubt incurred a decent pay off, yet suddenly you are about to be mortgage free on a property and have £250k in the bank? Sounds like you would have been ok while waiting to find a new role.

But that's his money and he doesn't want to spend it on his kid. Nope, let the taxpayer do that. Quite a sinister position to take really.
 
Obviously all the people who can WFH can afford to take a pay cut since you are no longer need to spend money commuting. I’m sure your employees will think the same come your next review or pay rise. Also you might have to pay more tax for the 10 million people who can’t WFH so they can get their benefits.

Completely sums up the British mindset that. Bitterness and envy aimed at perfectly ordinary and harmless people. What an embarrassment.
 
Perhaps it might be an idea to get back to the point of the thread and ignore any attempts to let it get sidetracked?
I certainly can't work from home, but if it curbs the infection rates while we try to determine if there is going to be an uptick in deaths as a result of the increasing infection numbers then people should do so.
It may be the case that the current infection rates aren't or wont result in the same rate of deaths as we were experiencing during the peak, but we don't yet know with any certainty that they couldn't do so once we add general winter ailments into the mix.
Better in my opinion to do all we can now to curb infection rates until we have gained the experience and knowledge of how this virus interacts with what we'd normally suffer from during a UK winter.
 
Please. I want to go to work, even though I get up at 3am and commute 3 hours a day I love my job and I’m good at it. If this handling of the lockdown costs me my career and it will be a career as my entire industry is on its knees and will be for years then I’ll have no qualms sitting by a lake fishing living off my savings whilst me ex claims benefits. They should of handled it better and should of suppprted aviation rather than sticking the boot in at every opportunity. BTW this proper Tory grew up in care, I’m where I am because I studied hard whilst working at the same time and then worked un paid for a year to get my job. I didn’t ask to inherit my money, would give anything to have my mum back but I can guarantee I paid more tax on that inheritance than you paid in the last few years.

It's rare thing, such a short missive giving you the entire measure of a person's moral universe.
 
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