Rishi Sunak reckons...

Just a thought and again its something im not clued up on so genuine answers appreciated.
If your an employee working from from home where do you stand with insurance?
If you had some kind of accident during what would be your normal working hours, who would be liable?
 
swordtrombonefish said:
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.
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Unlikely, I was working for London Stock Exchange Q3 and Q4 2020, they were all working form home, and it was working well.
 
My son has worked from home since the first day of the first lockdown, His company have told him it will be next year at the earliest before they make any decision how they will carry on. He said its working well but he does miss meeting up with people at the offices.
I worked as a CPN in mental health so was out most of the day but used to enjoy going back to the office and meeting up with work mates. Dont think I would like to be totally isolated from the people I worked with.
 
Boroproud said:
Just a thought and again its something im not clued up on so genuine answers appreciated.
If your an employee working from from home where do you stand with insurance?
If you had some kind of accident during what would be your normal working hours, who would be liable?
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good point, I suspect there will be some waivers for people, and help with home chairs and desks. Then you will need to cover yourself with your home insurance
 
boot boy ally said:
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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Did you really type that knowing that the high street / city centre has been in decline for years and received no assistance in terms of parity from government with tax on sales etc with Internet outlets? You think that can be blamed on paper saving by the construction industry?
 
BoroMart said:
good point, I suspect there will be some waivers for people, and help with home chairs and desks. Then you will need to cover yourself with your home insurance
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Some bigger companies have provided a fund for a desk, chair, monitor to complement their laptops. Obviously this is the corporate type of company. But I don't recollect any mention of insurance in any thing I've seen online.

Doesn't apply to me as a contractor but I can see the issues.
 
swordtrombonefish said:
Did you really type that knowing that the high street / city centre has been in decline for years and received no assistance in terms of parity from government with tax on sales etc with Internet outlets? You think that can be blamed on paper saving by the construction industry?
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You and many office workers on here are revelling in the fact that you're working from home and dont seem at all botherd about workers who earn a living from passing trade.Pass the buck and blame the government for everything as long as you feel good in yourself.
 
boot boy ally said:
ou and many office workers on here are revelling in the fact that you're working from home and dont seem at all botherd about workers who earn a living from passing trade.Pass the buck and blame the government for everything as long as you feel good in yourself.
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Have a look upstairs - I said the same thing, shame you can only see what you want to see. Outtake...

"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."
 
swordtrombonefish said:
Interesting, but happy to be corrected!
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I can only speak for myself (Cabinet Office) but we've been told 100% home working won't be an option, other than exceptional circumstances (as it was pre pandemic). Hybrid working is what they're talking about so 1,2,3 days a week in the office and fewer desks.

there's obviously politics involved in that decision and like all government departments there's a big drive to move jobs out of London. Which, as someone alluded to earlier, you can't do if everyone can just work from home.
 
swordtrombonefish said:
Did you really type that knowing that the high street / city centre has been in decline for years and received no assistance in terms of parity from government with tax on sales etc with Internet outlets? You think that can be blamed on paper saving by the construction industry?
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There’s also an added benefit to local economy from wfh. I nip into a couple of local of shops everyday on my lunchtime walk and pick up fish and vegetables from
The market on a Wed. None of those businesses would get my money if I was working in the office. I’m sure there’s plenty of local high streets which are doing really well out of the switch to wfh
 
festa5 said:
I can only speak for myself (Cabinet Office) but we've been told 100% home working won't be an option, other than exceptional circumstances (as it was pre pandemic). Hybrid working is what they're talking about so 1,2,3 days a week in the office and fewer desks.

there's obviously politics involved in that decision and like all government departments there's a big drive to move jobs out of London. Which, as someone alluded to earlier, you can't do if everyone can just work from home.
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How is internet security in government buildings compared to ours at home?

Wouldn't it be easier to hack into somebody's home computer than say a computer in a government building? I don't know how I'd feel about important files been worked on from home as opposed to in a 'secure' office.
 
My employer has office space all over the North East and Essex/Sussex. We're already being told a return to pre-COVID office working is unlikely. Lots of people have embraced home working and once set up properly having been more productive.

I can see me working in an office perhaps one day a week. I'm fortunate that my role means I'm out and about mostly anyway.
 
I'll not be going back until June apart from the odd day. After that I'm hoping I can negotiate 2 or 3 days per week at home. As many above, I save a load on travelling costs even taking in to account extra on utility bills. I work very effectively from home (and probably do more than my contracted hours) and like it but I do see the need to be in the office some of the time for efficiency and mental health reasons
 
Randy said:
How is internet security in government buildings compared to ours at home?

Wouldn't it be easier to hack into somebody's home computer than say a computer in a government building? I don't know how I'd feel about important files been worked on from home as opposed to in a 'secure' office.
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I think for those roles that involve dealing with highly classified information then WFH won't be an option and isn't now even during the pandemic. I doubt GCHQ, for example, will be doing much if any home working. It has to be appropriate to WFH of course.

For the rest of us I don't think it makes much difference (although I'm no IT expert). Everything for us is done on Google now, all files and emails are on "the cloud" so any encryption, firewalls etc are either on our laptops or the protection is at the other end. Which broadband you connect wirelessly to doesn't matter I don't think.

The days of having big server rooms on site are gone.
 
Randy said:
How is internet security in government buildings compared to ours at home?

Wouldn't it be easier to hack into somebody's home computer than say a computer in a government building? I don't know how I'd feel about important files been worked on from home as opposed to in a 'secure' office.
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As you are connected through work's VPN then the digital security isn't a concern. Key thing is to never mix work and home devices.

Touch wood it hasn't happened yet but I imagine if I had broadband issues and rang BT to get it sorted; my saying I need it sorting urgently as I WFH would be met by 'but you only have residential broadband......' I can see that being a potential problem
 
Colgates_shaving_foam said:
As you are connected through work's VPN then the digital security isn't a concern. Key thing is to never mix work and home devices.

Touch wood it hasn't happened yet but I imagine if I had broadband issues and rang BT to get it sorted; my saying I need it sorting urgently as I WFH would be met by 'but you only have residential broadband......' I can see that being a potential problem
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I think there are a number of things employers need to work through, particularly if they move to 100% home working. Affect insurance and tax I think?

We've always had some home working. In normal times if your broadband went down it'd just mean having to go into the office, for us it's always been a privilege not a right. Of course not allowed at the minute.
 
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