Workers rights

JM14

JM14

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Such a significant step forward in workers rights, and a huge contrast to the last governments opposition to working from home

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It was pretty mysterious why, given the parlous state of the public finances, the previous government didn't use the fantastic proof of concept provided by the pandemic to divest in its enormous property portfolio.

Then you see the property investments of cabinet members and the mystery disappears as if by magic.
 
Let civil servants work from home, reduce the office space, and convert the surplus into social housing. That one policy would slash public spending, reduce carbon emissions, relieve the strain on our transport systems and fix the housing crisis. It's an absolute no-brainer ...

... but it might upset offshore billionaire owners of massive property portfolios, so it'll never happen.
 
speckyget said:
It was pretty mysterious why, given the parlous state of the public finances, the previous government didn't use the fantastic proof of concept provided by the pandemic to divest in its enormous property portfolio.

Then you see the property investments of cabinet members and the mystery disappears as if by magic.
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Daily Mail was very vociferous in slagging off home workers - then somebody said on here their company owns quite a few office buildings. Obviously the two can’t be connected….
 
Barring the issue of mental health and interaction with other adults if you can work from home I cannot understand why any company wouldn't want this.
Costs for building sizes running them would all be lower.
Add to this the commuting costs for the employee and the environment its all pluses.
It surely would be more money in the pocket for companies having to provide less facilities and staff not paying out to get to work.
On a personal level I hated it but have friends and colleagues who loved it.
 
On the Transport side, the days of people buying expensive weekly/monthly rail tickets to Large Cities for work has dropped but it’s been balanced out by seemingly Tuesday/Thursday “Office days” - the Commuter trains to Nottingham from here are always packed then - and on Saturdays they’re rammed with Football/Cricket/Drinking/shopping punters.

Some companies still complaining about “nobody is travelling”. Hardly…
 
I retired in 2011 and mainly worked from for 15 years before retiring. It was absolutely life changing (for the better) and all the research at the time found that home working considerably improved profitability. Forcing people to attend offices is a Victorian attitude and shows immense disregard to employees and their wellbeing.
 
Wellingred said:
I retired in 2011 and mainly worked from for 15 years before retiring. It was absolutely life changing (for the better) and all the research at the time found that home working considerably improved profitability. Forcing people to attend offices is a Victorian attitude and shows immense disregard to employees and their wellbeing.
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As some wise person said -
Working from home isn’t the problem
Lack of trust is
 
I’m still o the fence . There’s a whole swathe of people who have no idea how to interact in real life meetings , deal with real people in person , handle conflict as it happens etc , never mind team sport and moral etc . I’ve managed hundreds of people and seen that level of interaction really suffer .

On the other hand j see the flexibility and other benefits and during Covid got to see some of them also.
 
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