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Boris at it again and the contest to replace the lying c***

Johnson talking about "people have had enough days off" is so offensive, deliberately so as well. The man is a festering sore on the arsehole of Britain. And yet he's popular, within reason.

I've been doing this for 10+ years now (when health allows, and when I actually have something to do), could I go back to office life? Maybe but I would never want to do it full time ever again. I live less than 10 minutes walk from Bilbrook station, it's a direct train to New Street. Would still add up in terms of time if you're doing that every day and that's pretty much as easy a commute as you can get.

Mrs DW has already been told they will 100% not be going back to the office full time in 2021, probably not ever.
 
Thats the thing, its dead - ultimately companies recognise that buildings & travel are their biggest expenses, partially doing away with both is a win for all. It's done.
 
I know lots of the companies I have spoken to regarding this over the past 12 months have a bit of a mix with some preferring to go back to how it was but the majority are all thinking of the mixed route of partial WFH and downsizing offices.

It's opened a lot of eyes that employees productivity doesn't fall of a cliff and that modern technology allows them to do their office based jobs just as well outside of the office environment and it's relatively easy to keep communication levels at a decent standard for projects.

For employees, I think in general most people I have spoken to love the flexibility, lack of commute and the ability to properly take a break and get some excersize during the day. There have been a few exceptions that have been more to do with home environment and circumstances like space issues, younger kids and broadband etc but most people who don't suffer from these prefer it at least for most days in a week.

We're IT based so have been geared up for this for years but we only really used to do it when forced to (off sick or specialist circumstances meaning we needed to be at home) or more usual to carry on with a bit of work when I got home or over the weekends if needs be. I can't imagine I will be going back to the office every day of the week for 9 hours like before. Will leave it up to the team what they wan to do but 2 days a week for catch up, group project stuff and make sure everyone is doing ok sounds like the best compromise. Don't miss the 40 min journies to and from the office either.
 
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It's opened a lot of eyes that employees productivity doesn't fall of a cliff and that modern technology allows them to do their office based jobs just as well outside of the office environment and it's relatively easy to keep communication levels at a decent standard for projects.
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Not having a go at anyone but this much should have been obvious a decade ago.

I absolute despise presenteeism culture on so many levels. An obscene waste of time for many jobs through the average week (look how much time people on here alone spend procrastinating on the Internet when they're "working", the reality is they don't need to be there for 35-40 hours a week), people coming in when they're physically ill (hopefully this is DEFINITELY a thing of the past), people coming in when they're mentally struggling (ditto), actively encouraging jobsworths who essentially just turn up for decades on end and contribute nothing, creating middle management jobs that do nothing, poisonous HR cultures, I could go on.

Guys, it's not 1987 any more.
 
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I love WFH and hope I don't have to go back to how things were as I hated the office I worked in (a large brick structure in the centre of Wolves), the working environment, the petty politics and certain arseholes who thought the badge around their neck made them somehow superior whilst naming/judging everyone by their fucking pay grade like some kind of bizarre caste system. For instance, WFH was a privilege for those over a certain pay grade, this wasn't organization wide, more departmental.

I live in Bridgnorth and used to WFH occasionally until I was transferred, WFH then became a no no, even 3 years ago when we had significant snow fall and I had already agreed with my line manager that I could WFH only for 2 hours into my working day to be told by their superiors that I was not allowed to WFH and should 'go outside and throw some snowballs'. I went outside to start clearing the snow off the car and from the hill outside so that I could go in the next day only then to get another email saying that WFH was allowed in this instance if prior agreement had been sought.

I constantly said that there was nothing I could do in Wolves that I couldn't do from home and this was the days before we had Teams to communicate with.

From things I have been hearing I think/hope that we too will be adopting a hybrid style of working going forward but right now, after over a year of WFH, working in an office environment now feels alien to me and I hope it doesn't return
 
I think the worry was that it would be too hard to track work and collaborate (and a sneaky suspicion that people would fail deadlines sitting in their pants watching Netflix ;) ).

I was thinking though that if this was even 10 years ago (maybe longer but bear with me) this would have been far more of a disaster. Broadband into office was 10x slower for most unless you had a leased line or were really lucky. The ttols we now take for granted for office communication were far worse etc etc.

It's hit at the right time technology wise for office based work and was the kick up the arse a lot of companies needed to see how it actually worked.
 
Yes I have thought the same, technology wise Covid hit at a time when WFH is the easiest it has ever been - I had never even heard of Microsoft Teams until late 2019 when I was in a meeting and our IT types said they would add us to the Teams Group and were met with blank faces, now it is everywhere in work and on TV. Many offices, mine included, has gone to great lengths in the past few years to become paperless and that has aided WFH greatly too. We all used to have intrays on our desks, now these intrays and associated filing cabinets are all on our laptops
 
The BBC never reported on this when the story broke.

They also haven't reported on the new Arcuri stuff.

Laura K hasn't tweeted a single thing about either story, but was like a dog eating hot chips when Sturgeon was being investigated.

They're not even hiding it now.
 
The new appointment at the top of the Beeb has removed any chance of it being neutral. Should labour ever get in his removal should be priority one.
 
I've been told we are returning to work on site for 1 day a week from after easter. I'd guess my employer has pretty much had it confirmed that we are re-opening, even though the date I am first back in is the date boris is due to announce whether my sector is able to re-open.

The plan is to use to summer to re-acclimatise staff to being back in the workplace for the majority of the time. My employer does run a predominantly in person service (education) so I can see the sense. I do anticipate we'll have some flexibility to WFH in future, but possibly not a lot.
 
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The BBC never reported on this when the story broke.

They also haven't reported on the new Arcuri stuff.

Laura K hasn't tweeted a single thing about either story, but was like a dog eating hot chips when Sturgeon was being investigated.

They're not even hiding it now.
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Just imagine how Laura would have reacted if say 18 months ago it had come out that Corbyn had (allegedly) had a 4 year affair, had cheated on his ill wife and had somehow (allegedly) funnelled 125k into said woman's pockets.

She would be relentless!

Ultimately though it IS just Arcuri's word against Boris's and the majority of people won't believe her over him.
 
He hasn't actually ever denied it. He just refuses to speak about it.
 
I think her denying it until the cheque got big enough turns a lot of people off
 
Oh, I've no dog in the fight really. She seems a fairly appalling person too. Just it all gets conveniently swept away.
 
"Boris Johnson is an adulterer" was not new information, even if it was another example to add to the list, when this first broke in 2019.

But now that it includes a paper trail that could confirm a specific allegation of corruption, it gets a lot more interesting... (Just see how the Greensill/Cameron story is starting to really roll along now that there's documentary proof coming to light.)
 
Under any other government, giving over £100K of public money to somebody you were having an affair with and then lying about it would have led to a resignation. Boris Johnson can do pretty much whatever he wants without any consequence as long as he has a large section of the media on his side. This isn't even the worse thing a member of this government has got away with recently either. I despise them.

If it had been Corbyn or Starmer then it would have been headline news in the Mail and the Sun for days and the nation would be outraged.
 
When you look at what Ministers resigned for in the 1990s, the so called "sleaze Government", it's all incredibly tame.

Well, apart from Jonathan Aitken who literally broke the law I suppose.
 
Govt report says 'slavery not just about profit and suffering.' Britain. 2021. I'm starting to get very fucking scared of this govt.
 
The overt control of the output of the national broadcaster by implied threat of sanction for publishing anything critical is straight out of the Goebbels handbook.

Not to worry, should the power ever go off we can keep warm by attending a book burning.
 
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