The time is coming where things will start opening up and some organisations will be better at it than others. How important is flexibility to you and will it impact your choices?
Return to Office - Will You Leave a Job That Goes Back Full Time
Vote for Pedro on 02/10/2021 - 11:27
Poll Options
- 825Flexibility is now expected and will influence my career choices
- 147It is what it is and I’ll cop what the boss says
Comments
I have been working from home since March 2020. I am hoping that we will be able to choose what suits us. I think I would go to the office 2/3 times a week, its only half an hour cycle for me so I get some excercise. Its good to get out of the house and see some people. The only issue is, I started doing this during the brief lifting of lockdown earlier in the year and because others do the same, your lucky to cross paths with anyone anyway, so you dont end up seeing people.
I am hoping we stay flexible as my partner is a school teacher and I am considering buying a motorhome to work on the road for 12 weeks a year.
WFH sounds great. Hey, I could be in Melb or Sydney, as long as I am doing my work, the boss should be happy right.
Now lets extend this a little further. I decide to go over to say Bali or Vietnam or India. I am technically still WFH and I believe I deserve my full salary.
On the other hand, from the boss's point of view now; my employee is WFH, putting in the full 7.5hr every day. So I should pay them in full, BUT if they can work from overseas, WHY don't we just hire people from overseas at a fraction of the price. They will be WFH too and the company saves $$ in salary and other expenses.
Before covid, i thought i like WFH. After covid, I actually want to go back to office, at least part time. I know colleagues who's seen doctors to prescribe them to go back to office for having mental health issues. For me I missed my free office gym and cycling to work. And free heating/cooling and morning tea/beverages…
https://www.techradar.com/au/news/facebook-ends-wfh-forever-…
Sometimes a crisis is easier to solve when everyone is present.
I would prefer to work in the office with the opportunity to work from home on an ad hoc basis, as sometimes it really is convienient to do so, especially when you have tradies coming over or have appointments to go to.
I have been in hoodies and track pants for most of lockdown. I miss the routine of going to work and dressing for it. Oh yeah and my sleeping pattern is pretty much stuffed now.
my sleeping pattern is screwed too
i am pretty much sleeping at 8pm these days =/
For me absolutely i prefer work from home, my company was very pro-remote work but recently everyone is fatigued by the lockdowns so they are planning to change the policy to start forcing more people back to the office to promote culture.
I'm currently negotiating i'm hoping to secure 3 days a fortnight in the office, remainder days at home. Ideally i'd like 100% WFH but i'm finding more and more companies are canning the idea of purely WFH esp here in Melbourne Australia, many of my friends and ex-collegues their employers are planning to cancel WFH.
I currently work from home but the plan is that I will eventually return to the office. I'm actually worried about this because of covid19. I have close contacts who work in healthcare or aged care and they get tested daily. I highly doubt that the office will invest in rapid antigen testing and I was getting tested every time I would attend on site. It's not that I don't want to be back in the office. It's a new job I am in so I want to be on site as much as possible but I want to avoid being a carrier of covid19 of course and it looks like my employer may just want us continue to work in the office even if another outbreak occurs. Where does this leave me?
Update: my employer has now re routed the phones for inbound client calls directly to the office,. Switched off the VoIP phone system we used when we worked remotely and we've been working from the office since Monday.
With still 200 cases or so a day in NSW I'm still concerned about the covid19 risk.
To say I'm P**** off is an understatement. I just want work life balance and to be able to do split home and office but because of a few stragglers in the team we've been told to work in the office until at least the next month when a new department manager and phone system is implemented. I know it's right to support struggling businesses in the CBD and such but I'm still weary about covid and even driving in most days despite the parking prices.
My work has mandated the injection and masks to come into the office, so I'm permanently working from home now. FREEDOM!!
Imagine that, not getting the jab set me free from the lockdown that is the office 9-5 (more like 7-7), amazing!!