Working from home.. Where?
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BobSaunders said:
Announced for us today that by 2020 the entire business will be working from home two days a week. It means that they can seek to reduce property and building needs - smaller buildings only needed for people needing to be there.
Great in theory, but I had a job some years back where most of us were out and about around customer sites for several days every week week, so we had 4 desks in the office for a team of about 8 of us. Unfortunately they'd forgotten to take in to account that most of the team would be in the office on Fridays 
I work in Telecoms for a Technology Consultancy employing over 400k people world wide.
Sadly our work is "client facing" and it's expected that we must have 4 days p/w on client site with 1 day at home/in our HQ.
I don't think it's the case that my firm isn't prepared to let us WFH, it's more that the clients are not geared up to it and if they're paying £££ for our time, they expect us to be there in person.
Sadly our work is "client facing" and it's expected that we must have 4 days p/w on client site with 1 day at home/in our HQ.
I don't think it's the case that my firm isn't prepared to let us WFH, it's more that the clients are not geared up to it and if they're paying £££ for our time, they expect us to be there in person.
I work from home full time have done for 3 years and love it, I'm a Dynamics CRM/365 technical consultant 95% of our customers use Dynamics online hosted by Microsoft if i worked in an office i would still be working online, based just outside Leeds which is great except for the bloody weather.
gobuddygo said:
I work from home full time have done for 3 years and love it, I'm a Dynamics CRM/365 technical consultant 95% of our customers use Dynamics online hosted by Microsoft if i worked in an office i would still be working online, based just outside Leeds which is great except for the bloody weather.
The sun is at least shining today! (just fookin cold)Shnozz said:
gobuddygo said:
I work from home full time have done for 3 years and love it, I'm a Dynamics CRM/365 technical consultant 95% of our customers use Dynamics online hosted by Microsoft if i worked in an office i would still be working online, based just outside Leeds which is great except for the bloody weather.
The sun is at least shining today! (just fookin cold)I work for an organization that has multi-national corporate clients. My work involves very extensive global travel - though I focus on US, Western Europe and Japan. About 50 % of my work is US and most of my work has an analysis component, which I conduct from my home in Central Florida.
Our headquarters is in Indiana and I have colleagues in various US and European locations.
Theoretically I could live and work from pretty much anywhere I was able to establish legal domicile, that had reliable internet and reasonable proximity to an international airport.
I don't think I could hack working in some cube-farm/office environment, like the majority of my clients do. It would drive me insane.
Our headquarters is in Indiana and I have colleagues in various US and European locations.
Theoretically I could live and work from pretty much anywhere I was able to establish legal domicile, that had reliable internet and reasonable proximity to an international airport.
I don't think I could hack working in some cube-farm/office environment, like the majority of my clients do. It would drive me insane.
HD Adam said:
I work from home when I'm back in England and live on the Norfolk coast.
Norwich airport is 20 mins away and from there,I can fly to Schipol in 30 mins and go anywhere.
Stanstead is close too.
Fibre internet & 4G
Works for me.
However you must live in Cromer its the only place that has 4G!!!Norwich airport is 20 mins away and from there,I can fly to Schipol in 30 mins and go anywhere.
Stanstead is close too.
Fibre internet & 4G
Works for me.
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