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The link doesn't work chucky, a bit like yourself then
How's the jobhunting going?0 -
Chucky's World
Everything's always fine in chucky's world
In chucky's world, estate agents don't tell porkies.
In chucky's world investment bankers don't earn alot and what little they do earn they mostly give to charity.
And in chucky's world banks lend people loads of cash just cos they want to help them out
Wouldn't you like to live in chucky's world too? :T0 -
Yes, IT is highly skilled. Sack all the bankers and give all of us IT workers huge pay rises I say
I wish...
My son is in IT. He's just starting a new job tele-commuting from west Wales. This seems a great solution - live in a low-cost area and work in a high-cost one. BTW, he's renting!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I have this irritating Supertramp song buzzing round my head...
L-e-h-m-a-n-s, nothing but a Lehman's
Can you still make your share, oh no.0 -
My son is in IT. He's just starting a new job tele-commuting from west Wales. This seems a great solution - live in a low-cost area and work in a high-cost one. BTW, he's renting!
It's the way to go, IMO. Many jobs these days involve sitting at a desk working on a computer terminal and/or talking on the phone. Actually, maybe too many but that's another debate.
With the sort of telecoms infrastructure now common there's absolutely no reason why most of these jobs couldn't be done from home with scheduled visits to the office as needed. Video conferencing could cut going to the office even more. There goes a lot of traffic congestion and pollution as well as being less stressful on the commuter.
Better for everyone's house prices too. It would even things out a bit more, enabling some of the economic activity from the overloaded hotspot cities to spread out and benefit communities around the country.
Fairer, cleaner and greener.--
Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.0 -
With the sort of telecoms infrastructure now common there's absolutely no reason why most of these jobs couldn't be done from home with scheduled visits to the office as needed. Video conferencing could cut going to the office even more. There goes a lot of traffic congestion and pollution as well as being less stressful on the commuter.
And there goes the expensive, unnecessary rent spent on prime-location office space to house back-office staff e.g. in EC3 & EC4!!!!Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac0 -
It's the way to go, IMO. Many jobs these days involve sitting at a desk working on a computer terminal and/or talking on the phone. Actually, maybe too many but that's another debate.
With the sort of telecoms infrastructure now common there's absolutely no reason why most of these jobs couldn't be done from home with scheduled visits to the office as needed. Video conferencing could cut going to the office even more. There goes a lot of traffic congestion and pollution as well as being less stressful on the commuter.
Better for everyone's house prices too. It would even things out a bit more, enabling some of the economic activity from the overloaded hotspot cities to spread out and benefit communities around the country.
Fairer, cleaner and greener.
UBS's desk top support was run out of Sydney, Goldman Sachs's from Asia (Singapore???).
UBS used to try to get back office people to work from home where possible as it cost £6,000 to support them working from home but cost £20,000 to support them in an office in The City.0 -
UBS's desk top support was run out of Sydney, Goldman Sachs's from Asia (Singapore???).
UBS used to try to get back office people to work from home where possible as it cost £6,000 to support them working from home but cost £20,000 to support them in an office in The City.
Their investment bank has a very well sited head office - right on top of Liverpool St. station. If you worked there and could get a gaff near a station on that mainline you'd be sorted.
I'd still take telecommuting for day to day work though.--
Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.0 -
What company is he working for?My son is in IT. He's just starting a new job tele-commuting from west Wales. This seems a great solution - live in a low-cost area and work in a high-cost one. BTW, he's renting!
I would like to be able to work from home like that, but unfortunately I am not in the kind of job where you can work from home, as I actually have to go and see the users to sort their problems out as a lot of my work is hardware based.
I reckon at least half of our IT department at work could work from home on a regular basis though...0 -
Their investment bank has a very well sited head office - right on top of Liverpool St. station. If you worked there and could get a gaff near a station on that mainline you'd be sorted.
I'd still take telecommuting for day to day work though.
Part of the office is directly above Liverpool St and then they have various other places scattered across that side of the City.
I lived in the Barbican when I worked there.0
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