Employer asking me to get broadband to work at home

Highland76

GrumpyDil said:

If they have been working off a mobile dongle odds are extremely unlikely that we are talking terrabytes of data here. I'm working from home but am using far less data for work that my son is on his Xbox.
OP i have just installed home broadband as I was using  mobile broadband and the speeds dropped to be unsable. My broadband costs are still far less than my travel costs.

But the OP's company could well have bought them a mobile data dongle on a business tariff such as this, even if they don't use a huge amount of data. You can't really encourage people to break their ISPs t&c's even if you are willing to do this yourself...

littleboo

The biggest risk of using a domestic service for business use is when it breaks, the fix time will be measure in working days not hours so you need to have a plan B, its no good complaining to the ISP that you can't work. The plan B could be as simple as going to a friends/relations house and working from there. The major ISP's have all coped with the sudden and massive shift to homeworking because they could already accommodate weekend and evening peaks for leisure use which exceed the daytime use, even with the additional homeworking traffic.

MiserlyMartin

This is exactly true. It is forbidden in most home ISP's contracts to be using home broadband for business. If the broadband breaks the fix time will be much longer than business BB. Employers should require business BB to be provided and pay the extra for those required to now work from home. Cheaper than paying for office space

J_B

Don't you just hate it when someone asks a question, but then doesn't come back to comment

Socajam

Highland76 said:

Socajam said:

If I was an employer I would not be paying for anyone to have broadband - choice is do you want to work or be unemployed.
But sdfsf

But using a residential broadband connection for work/business use is against most (if not all) ISPs t&c's, especially if downloading huge amounts of data (think TBs, not GBs). Most ISPs will turn a blind eye to using a residential connection for light/occasional business use but strictly speaking a separate business grade internet connection is required for those working full time from home. Therefore it should be the employer who would need to pay for the separate connection dedicated for work, not the employee. After all, the employer doesn't ask the employee to pay for their connection at the work place do they?

The employee have a choice, stop being so shortsighted and use the savings from the commute for the broadband and keep the job.
Everyone have to make sacrifices,  otherwise the sufferings will be a lost worse than we can ever expect
I would to have no hesitation in using the savings from my commute to pay for broadband and in the same breath, thanks the heavens that I still have a job.

Socajam

MiserlyMartin said:

This is exactly true. It is forbidden in most home ISP's contracts to be using home broadband for business. If the broadband breaks the fix time will be much longer than business BB. Employers should require business BB to be provided and pay the extra for those required to now work from home. Cheaper than paying for office space

Or the employer could say, going forward all employees will have to take 25% pay cut and then turn around and give an allowance for BB.
Of the two who comes out of this the winner - ?
Or the OP could take the savings from the commute and install BB and still come out with more from the commute and salary in tact.
Employers are not stupid, being pushed by employees will only enhance their creativity towards cost cutting.

Highland76

Socajam said:

Highland76 said:

Socajam said:

If I was an employer I would not be paying for anyone to have broadband - choice is do you want to work or be unemployed.
But sdfsf

But using a residential broadband connection for work/business use is against most (if not all) ISPs t&c's, especially if downloading huge amounts of data (think TBs, not GBs). Most ISPs will turn a blind eye to using a residential connection for light/occasional business use but strictly speaking a separate business grade internet connection is required for those working full time from home. Therefore it should be the employer who would need to pay for the separate connection dedicated for work, not the employee. After all, the employer doesn't ask the employee to pay for their connection at the work place do they?

The employee have a choice, stop being so shortsighted and use the savings from the commute for the broadband and keep the job.
Everyone have to make sacrifices,  otherwise the sufferings will be a lost worse than we can ever expect
I would to have no hesitation in using the savings from my commute to pay for broadband and in the same breath, thanks the heavens that I still have a job.

But why not make the ultimate sacrifice: let the employee pay for business broadband at their home AND take a 100% paycut. The employee keeps his/her job and the employer makes massive savings. Everyone's a winner! Yay!