Extending Commute times...

mwpt

CLAPTON wrote: »

have you ever worked from home?

have you worked from home when there are young children present?

have you supervised staff that are working from home (or indeed at work)?

have you ever known anyone to take a 'sickie' without due cause?

I worked from home a lot in my previous job and was very productive when doing so. I have noticed that People who can't work productively from home love to tell others they can't do it either. It will become more normal and you will have to accept it.

LydiaJ

wymondham wrote: »

... most [STRIKE]people[/STRIKE] office workers could do their job from home much more efficiently...

Corrected that for you.

I can see that the discussion you are having is useful and relevant to people in the kinds of jobs that you do. When it comes to discussing the effect on housing and commuter traffic, though, I think it's worth pointing out that the majority of people work in jobs where WFH isn't a meaningful concept - think of bricklayers, midwives, funeral directors, chefs, firefighters, teachers, piano tuners, surgeons, actors, airline pilots, whatever...

Of course, most jobs that can't be done at home are also jobs that aren't particularly concentrated in London and the SE. All the same, we are never going to see a society where "most people" do their job on a computer at home.

Dird

Both my jobs have had the option to WFH. With my first one I'd work at home about one day every 2 weeks but my current company actively encourages working from home to reduce carpark usage so I normally WFH 2 days per work as does my manager/colleagues (days varied to suit their needs).

wymondham

LydiaJ wrote: »

Corrected that for you.

I can see that the discussion you are having is useful and relevant to people in the kinds of jobs that you do. When it comes to discussing the effect on housing and commuter traffic, though, I think it's worth pointing out that the majority of people work in jobs where WFH isn't a meaningful concept - think of bricklayers, midwives, funeral directors, chefs, firefighters, teachers, piano tuners, surgeons, actors, airline pilots, whatever...

Of course, most jobs that can't be done at home are also jobs that aren't particularly concentrated in London and the SE. All the same, we are never going to see a society where "most people" do their job on a computer at home.

Hi, yes obviously those that have a client facing roll etc can't work from home, but I would hazard a guess that more people work in offices doing 'officey' type work than most others, yet take up of new ways of working are slow to be implemented...

wymondham

Interesting how nobody has really touched on the fact if people can work from home rather than say travel to their London office, then they are in fact free of the high cost of housing shackles??

Dird

What does that graph actually show? Surely 800k people living in London don't spend 2+ hours/day commuting when it's the country's hub?

boliston

wymondham wrote: »

Interesting how nobody has really touched on the fact if people can work from home rather than say travel to their London office, then they are in fact free of the high cost of housing shackles??

Presumably a lot of people choose to live in london for reasons other than the fact that their job happens to be there. London is a place where many people choose to retire to also - while many people might retire somewhere like southend-on-sea or blackpool others would get bored in such places just being there the whole time rather than just for visits.

ukcarper

wymondham wrote: »

Hi, yes obviously those that have a client facing roll etc can't work from home, but I would hazard a guess that more people work in offices doing 'officey' type work than most others, yet take up of new ways of working are slow to be implemented...

I wouldn't be to sure of that it would be interesting to see some figures.

wymondham

ukcarper wrote: »

I wouldn't be to sure of that it would be interesting to see some figures.

would indeed be interesting, but you don't see sky high buildings full of builders/plumbers etc....

wymondham

boliston wrote: »

Presumably a lot of people choose to live in london for reasons other than the fact that their job happens to be there. London is a place where many people choose to retire to also - while many people might retire somewhere like southend-on-sea or blackpool others would get bored in such places just being there the whole time rather than just for visits.

true, but we get lots of posts about people being slave to high house prices due to having to live near (ish) to their place of work, which lots of people don't consider working anywhere other than London for a variety of reasons...

If I 'worked' in London I'd much rather work remotely and live in a nice affordable house overlooking the countryside rather than coming back to my £500,000k one bedroom flat....