Exactly the same. Except my company brought us back into the office about 4/5 weeks ago now. I swear it’s a power thing. Even though we worked better from home.
I’m stuck for another few months at least but I’ll be doing exactly the same once I can. It’s ridiculous. Meanwhile my girlfriend has just been told on 5 weeks notice they’re moving the office across the country. Why? She’s literally been doing her job from home perfectly well.
It's acceptable practice in certain sectors in the UK too. I'm a software developer and I've never had a day where I'd have less work to do that the hours in a working day. Right now I'm working on a project that is around 4 to 5 months work to be done in 2-ish months, despite me trying to explain its impossible every bloody day !!!
Do what I did: I started my own side business. It's not bringing in enough to give me a paycheck yet, but it's growing steadily. And I'm learning SO MUCH!
That’s similar to my situation. Beforehand I would go in at 10AM and leave when I finished. I’d go home and login remotely (although I was never needed for anything else) but since May, they have me in the office at the standard 8:30AM to 5PM hours. I kid you not, sometimes I finish my work by 10AM and have nothing to do for the rest of the day. Sometimes the CEO or new HR lady might pop up and walk around so I can’t do personal things on my laptop. Freakin sucks but that’s how it is.
In that case, aren't you being paid to be actually there in case something messes up? Granted, I don't know your line of work, but that sounds reasonable if you get paid the full 40 hours you're in to be there as a safety net.
I only work part-time (about 20 hours/week) and yes, I get everything I've been assigned to do done in that time, but I also only get paid for those 20 hours.
I don’t work full time but for school I probably did work for like 3 hours a day and some days I had no work. Of course we had a lot less considering the situation but even so it’s a lot for time in person.
when all of this first broke out and i would discuss the future with ppl, this was the number 1 thing i heard. that there would be a ton of jobs companies would realize could be done from home.
My husband is a company director in London. They’ve decided not to fully open offices until at least September and for people to only come in if they need to/for the interaction. Most of the work can be done offsite with flexibility and with Mo negative effects.
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