| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? 09:48 - Jan 16 with 4083 views | gtsb1966 |
that's what is suggested on the news. Obviously the timing is Boris trying to save his skin but if the health experts are in agreement then good and life is returning to normality. |  | | |  |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 20:51 - Jan 16 with 623 views | textbackup |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 20:33 - Jan 16 by Sarge |
Which is pretty ridiculous if you think about it. Being a martyr and coming in when you’re sick helps nobody and just increases the likelihood of more people being off sick. |
guess its the new way of things isnt it.
thankfully my place seem to be of the opinion that if you feel rough you can WFH, which was handy really, as i got a weeks OT in when i was rough as arseholes with covid. |  |
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| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 20:54 - Jan 16 with 619 views | bluelagos |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 20:25 - Jan 16 by Texaco73 |
The flip to that of course, is that UK residents could take up remote working jobs for companies in other countries... |
If we had a track record of providing significant offshore back office / call centers to overseas firms, I think your argument would carry more sway.
Throw in the Brexit implications (difficulties) of providing services to our European neighbours and I am struggling to see this as anything more than one way traffic tbh. |  |
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| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 21:28 - Jan 16 with 568 views | HARRY10 |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 10:43 - Jan 16 by Guthrum |
I believe there will be permanent changes. Some of them, like the emptying of city centres in favour of online and local shops, merely the acceleration of already existing trends.
It may have set back things like the push for public transport over driving. The debt incurred and taxes lost by governments could inhibit future climate change measures. |
It will be an excuse
Prior to the pandemic we were told there was no 'magic money tree' - then whoosh, there was money a plenty for the Tories in the know to be paid to replenish the previously neglected PPE. |  | | |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 21:52 - Jan 16 with 544 views | HARRY10 |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 16:29 - Jan 16 by Guthrum |
Yes, they led to considerable hardship, hunger and rioting. The railway shipped people from the poverty-stricken countryside to city slums and factory jobs.
I agree with your point about the property funds, but there is collateral damage that comes with that. It's perhaps more an issue that city centres have, partly through speculation, been allowed to become too expensive to be sustainable, particularly in the face of a crisis. |
Take the extreme example and project it in the rest.
Whereas it will free up parents to take their kids to school, rather than leaving the house at 7am. A greater life work balance.
In Brittany there us a move to stop barns, workshops being converted to residential and have then turned into offices instead. That way you get the separation of work and home, and lose the commute. When last there over 5 years ago it was working well with employees down to around 35 hours. That is not something I can see happening in the UK until it's disasterous housing problem is addressed.
Unfortunately thanks to the thickos, UK workers will not be able to take advantage of this by moving to the EU. And the thought is that as many EU residents speak fluent English they may wish to stay put and work 'from whom'.
If course there will be the luddites who think a solicitor should still work from plush offices in the town centre, charging you fees that reflect that. The court services have being holding cases via 'skype' for ages. I am due a phone check up with my doctor (nothing serious) so what matters if he is in Ipswich, Inverness or even Istanbul.
Phone costs are now negligible. Why not disperse the workforce around the country ? How is it that the OU was delivering lectures via late night TC in the 70's yet there are howls of agony when it is suggested now. Why are kids burdening themselves with huge debt. Take few years off then take up study in your 20's. Too many students take subjects they then regret.
Thousands do jobs where they are not in close proximity with others. They are not suicidal. This is just scare stuff from the owners of commercial property and new student housing.
Commute to work an hour each way (inc getting train/bus and reverse) and you will work an extra 10 years plus in your life - unpaid. e either embrace what new technology offers, or we allow ourselves to be slaves to it. | | | |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 19:15 - Jan 17 with 433 views | buoyant |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 20:33 - Jan 16 by Sarge |
Which is pretty ridiculous if you think about it. Being a martyr and coming in when you’re sick helps nobody and just increases the likelihood of more people being off sick. |
However a huge chunk of SME companies only pay SSP, at £94 per week. I don't know how anyone can live on that.
I've no idea of the numbers of employed that fall into the above category but they plus the self employed must be a few million or more who don't have the luxury of being off with a sniffle. [Post edited 17 Jan 2022 21:33]
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| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 20:49 - Jan 17 with 389 views | Sarge |
| All covid restrictions to end on the 26th? on 19:15 - Jan 17 by buoyant |
However a huge chunk of SME companies only pay SSP, at £94 per week. I don't know how anyone can live on that.
I've no idea of the numbers of employed that fall into the above category but they plus the self employed must be a few million or more who don't have the luxury of being off with a sniffle. [Post edited 17 Jan 2022 21:33]
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Good point, very true | | | |
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