Benefit in kind, corporate apartment

[riskyj]

Out of interest, and sorry for somewhat derailing the thread. What sort of jobs do people do where this is necessary?

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riskyj said:

Out of interest, and sorry for somewhat derailing the thread. What sort of jobs do people do where this is necessary?

We have 9 offices throughout the UK. Sometimes staff have to be seconded from one office to another to implement some kind of project or to cover a vacancy or some other reason. I don't think most people would enjoy staying in a hotel for 3 months so we would normally put them up in a serviced apartment (which is basically a small flat with a cleaner)

[Bowks]

To close this out. I've just signed a lease for 6 months.

Because the property is needed as a result of working away and because it is in line with hotel costs, it is not seen as a taxable expense or benefit in kind.

Very much looking forward to retiring my 'big plate' after years of hotel stays, mostly at the same hotel.

[xx99xx]

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riskyj said:

Out of interest, and sorry for somewhat derailing the thread. What sort of jobs do people do where this is necessary?

We have 9 offices throughout the UK. Sometimes staff have to be seconded from one office to another to implement some kind of project or to cover a vacancy or some other reason. I don't think most people would enjoy staying in a hotel for 3 months so we would normally put them up in a serviced apartment (which is basically a small flat with a cleaner)

To expand on that, and again just out of interest, what office jobs require people to be in the office 5 days a week to necessitate living away? I thought most things had gone remote these days.

[Wanchaiwarrior]

xx99xx said:

To expand on that, and again just out of interest, what office jobs require people to be in the office 5 days a week to necessitate living away? I thought most things had gone remote these days.

Engineering and Construction is still mostly office/site based, although WFH is creeping in slowly I believe.
Can't drive a digger nor lay roads from home.

Although apparently you can engineer/design and draw at home.

But working in an office is better for collaboration, and reading a PDF mark-up is horrid.

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xx99xx said:

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riskyj said:

Out of interest, and sorry for somewhat derailing the thread. What sort of jobs do people do where this is necessary?

We have 9 offices throughout the UK. Sometimes staff have to be seconded from one office to another to implement some kind of project or to cover a vacancy or some other reason. I don't think most people would enjoy staying in a hotel for 3 months so we would normally put them up in a serviced apartment (which is basically a small flat with a cleaner)

To expand on that, and again just out of interest, what office jobs require people to be in the office 5 days a week to necessitate living away? I thought most things had gone remote these days.

Admittedly it's getting less and less frequent post-lockdown but some recent examples from us.

1. IT Infrastructure manager had to stay in Bristol for two months while he was overseeing the fit-out of a new office

2. Facilities Manager had to stay in Newcastle for 3 months to cover the Site manager vacancy

3. One of the Board Directors stayed in Manchester for a couple of months because the North Team was being restructured (lots of redundancies, several unhappy people)

[Rustybanger]

Is this effectively you being moved from your current work location to a new location that you expect to be working at for 24 months or more?