Working from home

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Thankfully, it's far easier to 'zone out' (or even keep on working using another monitor) during meetings when they are online and about subject matter that is of little interest.

[BLUETIT]

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All good points but nothing to do with public liability insurance. Employer's may be, but not public.

What about a client visiting your house ? It’s now a place of work.

Check your house insurance, there will be a question “is the property used as a business”, if you don’t answer truthfully, your insurance will be null and void

[RichardM]

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What about a client visiting your house ? It’s now a place of work.

Check your house insurance, there will be a question “is the property used as a business”, if you don’t answer truthfully, your insurance will be null and void

Yes, I wasn't thinking about clients visiting, in that case public liability insurance would be needed. I don't think working from home counts as using the property as a business, if it did then the council (planning permission business rates and if applicable, your mortgage company will need to know), but otherwise wouldn't your normal building and contents insurance cover what is needed?

[RichardM]

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Thankfully, it's far easier to 'zone out' (or even keep on working using another monitor) during meetings when they are online and about subject matter that is of little interest.

"sorry, I didn't catch that", meaning "I was reading the football news on my other monitor, not listening to you droning on, I didn't expect to have to contribute to the meeting."

[UNDERHILL1927]

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I love it when I need it, hate it when I'm forced into it.

I love my office. Love it. West end of London, loads of people about having a nice time. Loads of space to work, I can easily check who on my team is over worked, bored, upset etc. There are hundreds of people I know there who I can quickly consult, beg a favour of, have a chat with to break up the day, go for a sneaky pint after work etc. It's bloody excellent.

I love working at home too. Save 2 hours a day commute; get to pick my son up from nursery and do dinner with the family, can concentrate without being disturbed (generally). Pre lockdown, I loved my work from home days.

But I'd give anything to go back to 4 days from the office and a day from home right now. The lack of work/life separation is becoming desperate in my line of work. One of my managers did 87 hours last week. That is mental. And I didn't know until this morning. Had we been in the office it would have been so much easier to spot and deal with it. And personally I struggle to get.motivated now, and my 3 year old is constantly upset that I can't play with him during the day. Im done with it.

If you want to get work done, then offices are great places to do it. They are specifically designed for the purpose ffs. I can't wait to get back.

My thoughts exactly, managing teams remotely and making sure they are all catered for us a nightmare. EVERYTHING is a meeting now, as the casual conversations in the office are gone. Get me back in!

[bobh]

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Haven't read the whole thread, so dorry if already posted;
If you have worked grom home, even for a day in the past year, you can claim a tax rebate

https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2020/04/martin-lewis--working-from-home-due-to-coronavirus--claim-p6-wk-/?_ga=2.171810535.693869601.1614761191-711320553.1594192070

[BLUETIT]

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Haven't read the whole thread, so dorry if already posted;
If you have worked grom home, even for a day in the past year, you can claim a tax rebate
https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2...553.1594192070

In the last year of my working life, I was claiming £1200 per annum for working from my house

[splott parker]

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In the last year of my working life, I was claiming £1200 per annum for working from my house

Fair play but 170 new windows, 23 sets of patio doors, 62 composite doors, 35,000 linear metres of fascia, 19,000 linear metres of barge board is a bit over the top being fitted in a three bedroomed house in Llanishen

[mazadona10]

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For me working from home is alright sometimes and convenient spending 20 hours in a bedroom a day isn't what I want.

I think it has a big impact on other businesses and whilst we all have to pretend we care about emissions and things like that. It's going to hit the car industry hard, shops and food places. There's plenty of already empty office buildings, we need people who have got money to be spending it and working from home won't do that.

[tforturton]

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When this all started, they doled out the laptops, and we were all free to work from home if we wanted to. I tried it for a fortnight, but wasn't getting anything done, so I went back to the office. I prefer the routine.
But I do think that a lot of businesses will use the opportunity to scale back their office premises, and save themselves some money. Whether the workers will see any of that remains to be seen.

[Optimistic Nick]

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For me working from home is alright sometimes and convenient spending 20 hours in a bedroom a day isn't what I want.

I think it has a big impact on other businesses and whilst we all have to pretend we care about emissions and things like that. It's going to hit the car industry hard, shops and food places. There's plenty of already empty office buildings, we need people who have got money to be spending it and working from home won't do that.

My employer has made clear that we have a responsibility to spend money with the businesses that are set up to ensure office life functions - the Sandwich shops, coffee shops, pubs etc. Basically- when it's safe and convenient to do so we should work from the office and supporting those businesses is a reason for this. I agree. It really saddens me to see these places all boarded up now

[Fatty Thornton]

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Will it work long term?

Timing wise this all kicked off as I begun a new job where I am on a home-based contract for the first time in my career, with an (then) expectation to travel to either Dublin, London or elsewhere in Europe 2-3 days a week.

I've left the house 10 times on business in the last 11 months, and have done my job almost entirely from home, which without going into detail, I am surprised at, but to everyone's credit, it has been embraced by the company I work for and our advisors too.

I suspect my travel will be much curtailed once things return to normal because a) there will still be face-to-face contact needed for negotiations and b) we've proven we can do everything else remotely, and have saved a fortune in the process (what the shareholders want to hear!)!

[chris lee]

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My employer has made clear that we have a responsibility to spend money with the businesses that are set up to ensure office life functions - the Sandwich shops, coffee shops, pubs etc. Basically- when it's safe and convenient to do so we should work from the office and supporting those businesses is a reason for this. I agree. It really saddens me to see these places all boarded up now

With respect it is none of your employers business where and how you spend your own money, and to tell you you have a responsibility to do so is out of order imo.

[Optimistic Nick]

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With respect it is none of your employers business where and how you spend your own money, and to tell you you have a responsibility to do so is out of order imo.

I disagree
They are saying that those businesses depend on a working population in city centres. We are part of that. If we value those businesses and want them to survive then we have a collective responsibility to use them, or they won't be there any more.

[Tuerto]

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I disagree
They are saying that those businesses depend on a working population in city centres. We are part of that. If we value those businesses and want them to survive then we have a collective responsibility to use them, or they won't be there any more.

They're just giving their opinion then. I agree though, we need people to be mobile, city centres need to be busy, not just to support business, but for other ideas and projects to thrive and for the well being of people, interaction etc, also, how many 'funny' stories or anecdotes can be shared while a person is sat at home all day? I would hate to be stuck at home, that's torture, the routine that i'm in is that i come home to escape work, to do the things i want to do. And it feels good (most of the time) when i pull up outside my house after a days graft, it's the next part of the day.