Rishi Sunak reckons...

All economics. Fewer commuters = nationalisation of trains and buses, less tax take from fuel duty, more people in the service sector out of work with associated welfare costs.

5 days in the office is 99.99% dead.
 
I love working from home and did have down for much of the last 4 years, in some form, but I’m looking forward to hopefully opening an office for my current business in the next year (lower rents too hopefully), though I’d only want people to come in 2-3 days a week!
 
I work for a ftse 100 company. Our CEO has recently given the green light to ‘hybrid’ working.
Basically work where you want. Great stuff.
I don’t mind working from home but expect I’ll be in the office one or two days a week.
 
I can see large offices being a thing of the past, so if I owned any of these I would be selling them sharpish before the market dies, just like the high street is. It's going to happen, people may deny it or fight it, but they would be better off embracing technology faster in the most part.

I can see the potential for a hot desk office mind, where people all just turn up to a standard office, and work from there one day every two weeks, or even having a day in a coffee shop. Or multiple companies sharing a commercial space and booking office or meeting time etc.

Paperwork should no longer exist already, but slow uptakers will get forced to change by online accounts systems, making tax digital, cashless etc, all of these changes make offices less necessary. Teams and zoom will get better, filling cabinets will vanish.

Even construction, which is old school, it's pretty much 100% digitised invoices now and online payments, can't remember the last time I sent a paper invoice, or even received one and don't even know where the cheque or paying in book is, I've not seen either of them for years :ROFLMAO:

Site visits and meetings in offices are down about 90% for me, and productivity is up (y)

Good news for the environment too, this should help with green targets.
 
Nicer to work from home if you are a smashing little house, and are established in an occupation. Sh*te if you are young need human contact, mentorship and guidance.Yet again the fatted cow sits in his own self indulgence whilst the young and less well off are left to go hang.
Companies that follow the working from home model will lose a lot more than they gain.
 
Zoophonic said:
I think I’d expect the demograph of this Board - mostly married men over 50 to take the view that working from home is here to stay and it probably is. However my son works in the City. Single early 20s lad can’t wait to get back to the office and hates working from home. Whilst we won’t get back to packed commuter trains anytime soon I do envisage a time when we will return to a commuting society. The younger generations will ensure we do.
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Similar to my cousin who works in advertising in London. Has been working from home due to lockdown rules but been that his home is a two bedroom flat with a studio style living room/kitchen he says it's simply unworkable as a full time measure.
There will be thousands in the same set of circumstances up and down the country. He also is looking forward to getting back to the office, missing the structure of the working day is something he's struggled with massively.
 
Alvez_48 said:
Barely anyone wants to go back 5 days a week but barely anyone wants full time home either.

I've seen literally 15-20 linked in polls all come out with the vast majority (75% plus) wanting 2 or 3 days office a week.

That in itself will of course be very bad for London and retail in general.
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I agree alvez, I have always worked from home when not at client site. This last year has been quite isolating proffessionally. I know I am one of the lucky ones, btw.

I want to be able to go to the office, but again would still only go when on client site or just for a day at the office for free coffee and a chat with collegues
 
I’d be looking for another job if I had to go back into the office full time, and I’m sure the majority are the same.
Absolutely pointless and a waste of time doing a commute to do the same thing I could do sat at home. Huge benefit of Covid for me is finally having a good work life balance, would hate to have to throw that away.
 
Zoophonic said:
I think I’d expect the demograph of this Board - mostly married men over 50 to take the view that working from home is here to stay and it probably is. However my son works in the City. Single early 20s lad can’t wait to get back to the office and hates working from home. Whilst we won’t get back to packed commuter trains anytime soon I do envisage a time when we will return to a commuting society. The younger generations will ensure we do.
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It's a good point. But then fast forward 10 years or so and he may have a family and appreciate some flexibility
 
I've said before and repeat, it will be dictated by the needs of corporates and not by those of workers.

If they deem that working from home is the way, then that is the way. I suspect it will be a split, but with the high street dying and online being the way to go for shopping, it is likely that a lot more will be in warehouses, packing, stacking and then distribution, with the IT team building the front end to sell the merchandise.

In terms of service industries (IT and logistics) they have found they are saving a ton and still getting the job done (in fact doing better in may cases) so you could not blame them for wanting to remain in that model.

Government departments I could see those returning to office work, but maybe on a rota basis a 3:2 or 2:3 - possibly not 100%. The city, banking etc - well that is a different breed and they probably would want people in 100% of the time as it is all driven by that always on work ethic.

Of course there is the service industry for home, automotive, food, sales etc and some can only be done face to face, there may be a boom in leisure caused by all of this - hard to tell till we see how we fare with Covid during the opening up of society. But some change is already on us and without good reason won't switch back.
 
In terms of demographics, I’m 31 and would much rather work from home. My commute would be around 1 hour/1 hour 15 round trip each day. It’s like I’ve gained extra time, my productivity has actually increased loads being at home.
I can see why some office work is needed though, we’ve had a new starter this week and it’s difficult for them to get to know each other and a proper feel for the company.
 
BoroMart said:
There isn't a lot they can do to force people to go back into the office. Many businesses have invested in their work from home culture, and want to recoup that through releasing office space. We've all had a taste of it, and when it comes to summer and we can go and sit in a beer garden after work with our friends or go play tennis or whatever then that'll be it. WFH will be cemented as the new norm
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Oh I really hope so it’s been great having the wife working from home👌
 
Andy_W said:
I can see large offices being a thing of the past, so if I owned any of these I would be selling them sharpish before the market dies, just like the high street is. It's going to happen, people may deny it or fight it, but they would be better off embracing technology faster in the most part.

I can see the potential for a hot desk office mind, where people all just turn up to a standard office, and work from there one day every two weeks, or even having a day in a coffee shop. Or multiple companies sharing a commercial space and booking office or meeting time etc.

Paperwork should no longer exist already, but slow uptakers will get forced to change by online accounts systems, making tax digital, cashless etc, all of these changes make offices less necessary. Teams and zoom will get better, filling cabinets will vanish.

Even construction, which is old school, it's pretty much 100% digitised invoices now and online payments, can't remember the last time I sent a paper invoice, or even received one and don't even know where the cheque or paying in book is, I've not seen either of them for years :ROFLMAO:

Site visits and meetings in offices are down about 90% for me, and productivity is up (y)

Good news for the environment too, this should help with green targets.
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Death of the city centre, mass unemployment but as long as your alright and you've saved some sheets of paper.Hope you're happy.
 
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