#50

Bet there is.

#51

iWorkRemotely

#52

Look at this wankery
https://www.sharedesk.net/
Guess my misery millions will have to wait

#53

I would expect to be paid more to work from home full time, as the company is effectively leasing my private space for business.I’m not actually a massive fan of it tbh, tbf. Get quite a lot out of working face-to-face with people, and I’ve got it hardwired in me that wfh is fucking lazy for some reason.

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#54

I remember reading a thing that said people worked harder out of fear they’re appearing lazy by not going in/general office bitchery/temptation to just do the work at like 1 in the morning. It’s sort of horrible how work is permeating into a lifestyle tbh but we deserve no better I guess.

#55

What if you made Tindr, but for picking people who you think you wouldn’t totally despise sharing an office kitchen and open plan shared working area with?

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#56

I’d be rich, damn rich, is what.

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#57

my underling has started today!!!

exciting times for warn inc.

#58

Haha, wasn’t he then relocated to the bogs? Royter Hatpoo!

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#61

offices are good
our boss bought 10 plants for our office today and paid for them himself. doubt many of you have that many plants in your house

#62

just get a garden man
edit: not a garden man

#63

doubt you have that many plants in your garden man

#65

Surely that just requires unions and the like to reorganise around new working structures though? See IPSE for example, though I don’t know how effective they are. Idk, it’s something I’m still trying to navigate myself and I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it, but if the workplace is innovating the worker sort of has to do the same to protect what’s theirs.

(Also for @Ruffers and @shrewbie I have a bunch of well cared for plants in my house/workspace that would probably die if I worked elsewhere)

#66

Possibly, but I’d have thought they’d still have to go through a change of use/building class planning application in most cases.

#67

It won’t happen because most organisations don’t really trust their staff to work without supervision. which is a shame as there are lots of obvious benefits to having people working from home, both for the organisation and the staff, plus these days it’s far more practical (it’s not as if you would have to forever be couriering paper files to peoples homes).

#69

sounds like you’re smothering your plants, shiggles

#70

But I love them!

#71

Because the advent of the internet has meant industrial organising more efficient and effective, right.

#72

This is definitely true, and is a major problem. I started writing a response about critical mass and ‘traditional’ employers, but abandoned it halfway through because I actually couldn’t argue my way around your point. I think it’s a perspective thing and I’m probably guilty of a bit of I’m Alright Jack, in that it works for me and I haven’t considered the broader implications properly.

#73

i have no desire to work from home, beyond doing it on occasion eg if waiting for a plumber or something.

firstly i don’t want to associate being at home with work as if work is stressful, how do you get away from that?

secondly emailing/messaging people isn’t the same socially as having people around to speak to. i’d get lonely very very quickly. i’ve had a job before that involved being in the office on my own a lot and it was awful - i’ve no reason to believe working from home would be much different. might be alright if you’ve got a really busy social life but i haven’t!

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