Can we make it ?

It's a tricky dilema we are considering. As we have over 70 employees now and we based in Manchester and paying a fortune for city centre office space. We are probably working at around 80% of the productivity compared to being in the office, so cost wise it is still cheaper working from home than having an office. But that 80 is only going to drop, as you get disconnect from the company vision and the behaviours you want your staff to embrace etc....

I have no doubt some business will take this as an opportunity to minimize those required to come into the office daily, however, I think a number of them will realise there is a huge advantage to having a great office environment and maybe having people come in 2/3 days a week. Which I think is what we will move towards. Whether we keep the same office we have now (Free beer on tap, Coffee barista etc...) or move to something cheaper is another debate entirely.

 

I think the Government stated that in cases where work 'can' be done from home,then it should be,and companies .If you can't work from home for the above reasons then you'd be asked to attend your workplace

I don't think it's a case of sacking anybody or discrimination.If both parties can facilitate working from home then it's encouraged by the Government,if either side can't then it's very much as you were.When this all kicked off my youngest Daughter was told she'd be working from home but the company dragged their heals setting it up and asked her travel to work,then Scotrail pulled 80% of the trains and they were crammed in like sardines.She refused to go to work due to her own personal safety being compromised and lo and behold,2 days later,it was set up.

 

Just watching the Barbados PM explaining that they are considering offering remote working for up to a year on the island.

 

No

 

It's that 'tipping' moment again isnt it. Mine was the week after the euphoria of reaching the FA cup final, they announced E1/E2 (hard core no voters) moving to North stand. They made it as difficult as they could with no consultation. The aim was to piss off those pesky hardcore no voters. Protests subsided. as many boycotted at that point. At the time, I thought it was downhill from there (despite another year or two in Premier league)

 

Will companies pay worker's personal heating costs in winter if working from home?

 

No they didn’t they were working in consultation with real true die hard fans (arf) Who knew better and pushed this through
New zoo anyone?
The club bent over backwards with what they thought were “real” fans representatives!! Unfortunately they weren’t

 

I've raised this many times on here and City Independent. Are you suggesting that their only motivation was to ensure the true die hard's were listened to? Amazing consultation, it never happened before or after.

 

" ... the hill that City will die on"

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/hull-city-system-mccann-allam-4312638

 

Well they could
They could share the savings between staff couldn’t they.

You can claim tax allowance for working at home though, but I think only if that’s the permanent arrangement (rather than occasionally deciding to)

 

Offering people the chance to work from home is fine, but requiring them to is a change in contract.
If agreed that’s fine, if not it’s the same as every other contractual change.
Can be changed, but needs negotiation, usually with unions if they are recognised in the workplace.
Struggle to see direct discrimination from your example, as it needs to relate to a protected characteristic, but at a push you might argue it discriminated against age as younger people would be more likely to living with others like parents or in smaller shared flats etc...seems tenuous though and unlikely to fly I don’t think (if you could prove a particular background lived in worse accommodation maybe, but doubt it would carry either)

 

If you have a computer and internet I dont see what the added costs of working from home are.

 

Heating, lighting, a work station, you may need a better internet connection, all the extra drinks and snacks and munchies. Maybe you dropped the kids off at school on your way to work, oh no more need for a company car so you will have to fund your own.

 

Most of the costs are minimal. If there's no need for a company car if you are working from home then there was never any need for one in the first place. It would have been part of a benefits package so there shouldn't be any change.
It can't be easy if your home was limited to start with. Luckily I was working from home before I moved into my present house and I built an extension with a dedicated office.

 

The Allam Family

Has a ring to it, definite pantomime material there.

 

Well anyway, back on topic, are you lot enjoying the pubs being open?

 

Not been
Sounds **** to be honest

 

Went in last night and had a few sat outside Minerva on Wednesday afternoon
Pint of 1904 in Minerva very nice
Everyone kept coming or going through the wrong doors
Last night was quiet in pub but it was nice just to be sat in a pub

 

Socially distanced of course?