Boss not letting me work from home

duk3nuk3m

Barny1979 said:

Have you discussed with your manager as advised?

Not yet, funnily enough my manager is working from home and isn't answering calls or emails at the moment.

AskAsk

duk3nuk3m said:

Barny1979 said:

Have you discussed with your manager as advised?

Not yet, funnily enough my manager is working from home and isn't answering calls or emails at the moment.

this is where i am getting the 30% reduction from.  i know for a certain fact that not everyone works when they are at home as they are supposed to.  my solicitor was never contactable when she was supposedly working from home until about 6pm.  what was she doing until then i wonder.

have you not worked out yet why everything is so slow now during the pandemic?  if everyone was mega efficient at home, then why does everything take so long now to get resolved?  try to contact anybody to do anything or ask anything and it takes two or three times as long to get things looked at or answered.  the economy has slowed down drastically because people are no longer going into work.

TELLIT01

My wife is definitely no less productive when working from home and the work stats prove that.  However, she does miss the interaction with colleagues.  Most of them used to arrive before the official start time and used to have a natter then, and at lunchtime.

For me, the main downside of her working from home is that she will often 'just popping upstairs for a few minutes' (she uses one of the bedrooms as her work area). Obviously when working in the office there was  a clear distinction between work and home.

Barny1979

AskAsk said:

74jax said:

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Barny1979 said:

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Dizzy_Ditzy said:

We are a team of three and need to have one person covering the office every day. Two of us do two days and the other does the odd one.  Our jobs are 90% doable from home but we need to deal with post and face to face queries. Maybe thats why your employer wants you to be in the office? You really need to speak to your employer to ask them why 
Speaking for myself, I quite enjoy my office days - its a chance to have a "semi" sort of normal, with other people that you can chat do and laugh with and commiserate with! 

i used to work one day a week at home and 4 days in the office at my old place.  i had no distraction at home, except myself as i could never get motivated enough to do anything and would just leave the work and go and do other things instead.  of course i never told my employer this!  but when you are home and there are so many other interesting things that you could do instead of working, who wouldn't just put work aside if you can and go and do something else instead??

Because those working fulltime from home currently would have zero output

they would have some output, but it would be less than what it was when they went into the office full time.  the media articles state that the output is more than when they went into the office full time in general, which i find hard to believe.

When I was WFH my laptop was switched on the minute I got up, and I left it on throughout the evening, I have no idea why - well I do, because I was an idiot!  The moment an email came in, I replied, whatever time of day it was.....  At home was pretty much the same as at work, I had hoped I'd take lunch, but I guess my excuse for not taking lunch at work (didn't have time), still was the reason at home, I think I thought because I was at home the workload would miraculously diminish........
My husband loves WFH, he has meetings with people all over the world and would usually have to go in the office early or stay late to have calls.  Now he can just be in the house and no long commute, he absolutely loves it.  He's in his study at 08.30, and the door is shut throughout the working day till about 5.30/6.  He says he gets far more done at home, but I can't see how as it's the same hours for him, but he says it's the non interruptions and their calls are now more structured so they get more out of them.

i am not working at the moment

Are you furloughed?

AskAsk

Barny1979 said:

AskAsk said:

74jax said:

AskAsk said:

Barny1979 said:

AskAsk said:

Dizzy_Ditzy said:

We are a team of three and need to have one person covering the office every day. Two of us do two days and the other does the odd one.  Our jobs are 90% doable from home but we need to deal with post and face to face queries. Maybe thats why your employer wants you to be in the office? You really need to speak to your employer to ask them why 
Speaking for myself, I quite enjoy my office days - its a chance to have a "semi" sort of normal, with other people that you can chat do and laugh with and commiserate with! 

i used to work one day a week at home and 4 days in the office at my old place.  i had no distraction at home, except myself as i could never get motivated enough to do anything and would just leave the work and go and do other things instead.  of course i never told my employer this!  but when you are home and there are so many other interesting things that you could do instead of working, who wouldn't just put work aside if you can and go and do something else instead??

Because those working fulltime from home currently would have zero output

they would have some output, but it would be less than what it was when they went into the office full time.  the media articles state that the output is more than when they went into the office full time in general, which i find hard to believe.

When I was WFH my laptop was switched on the minute I got up, and I left it on throughout the evening, I have no idea why - well I do, because I was an idiot!  The moment an email came in, I replied, whatever time of day it was.....  At home was pretty much the same as at work, I had hoped I'd take lunch, but I guess my excuse for not taking lunch at work (didn't have time), still was the reason at home, I think I thought because I was at home the workload would miraculously diminish........
My husband loves WFH, he has meetings with people all over the world and would usually have to go in the office early or stay late to have calls.  Now he can just be in the house and no long commute, he absolutely loves it.  He's in his study at 08.30, and the door is shut throughout the working day till about 5.30/6.  He says he gets far more done at home, but I can't see how as it's the same hours for him, but he says it's the non interruptions and their calls are now more structured so they get more out of them.

i am not working at the moment

Are you furloughed?

no, i am on a career break.

Barny1979

AskAsk said:

Barny1979 said:

AskAsk said:

74jax said:

AskAsk said:

Barny1979 said:

AskAsk said:

Dizzy_Ditzy said:

We are a team of three and need to have one person covering the office every day. Two of us do two days and the other does the odd one.  Our jobs are 90% doable from home but we need to deal with post and face to face queries. Maybe thats why your employer wants you to be in the office? You really need to speak to your employer to ask them why 
Speaking for myself, I quite enjoy my office days - its a chance to have a "semi" sort of normal, with other people that you can chat do and laugh with and commiserate with! 

i used to work one day a week at home and 4 days in the office at my old place.  i had no distraction at home, except myself as i could never get motivated enough to do anything and would just leave the work and go and do other things instead.  of course i never told my employer this!  but when you are home and there are so many other interesting things that you could do instead of working, who wouldn't just put work aside if you can and go and do something else instead??

Because those working fulltime from home currently would have zero output

they would have some output, but it would be less than what it was when they went into the office full time.  the media articles state that the output is more than when they went into the office full time in general, which i find hard to believe.

When I was WFH my laptop was switched on the minute I got up, and I left it on throughout the evening, I have no idea why - well I do, because I was an idiot!  The moment an email came in, I replied, whatever time of day it was.....  At home was pretty much the same as at work, I had hoped I'd take lunch, but I guess my excuse for not taking lunch at work (didn't have time), still was the reason at home, I think I thought because I was at home the workload would miraculously diminish........
My husband loves WFH, he has meetings with people all over the world and would usually have to go in the office early or stay late to have calls.  Now he can just be in the house and no long commute, he absolutely loves it.  He's in his study at 08.30, and the door is shut throughout the working day till about 5.30/6.  He says he gets far more done at home, but I can't see how as it's the same hours for him, but he says it's the non interruptions and their calls are now more structured so they get more out of them.

i am not working at the moment

Are you furloughed?

no, i am on a career break.

Obviously your role was easily replaced, maybe they've found someone who actually works when they're WFH

AskAsk

Barny1979 said:

AskAsk said:

Barny1979 said:

AskAsk said:

74jax said:

AskAsk said:

Barny1979 said:

AskAsk said:

Dizzy_Ditzy said:

We are a team of three and need to have one person covering the office every day. Two of us do two days and the other does the odd one.  Our jobs are 90% doable from home but we need to deal with post and face to face queries. Maybe thats why your employer wants you to be in the office? You really need to speak to your employer to ask them why 
Speaking for myself, I quite enjoy my office days - its a chance to have a "semi" sort of normal, with other people that you can chat do and laugh with and commiserate with! 

i used to work one day a week at home and 4 days in the office at my old place.  i had no distraction at home, except myself as i could never get motivated enough to do anything and would just leave the work and go and do other things instead.  of course i never told my employer this!  but when you are home and there are so many other interesting things that you could do instead of working, who wouldn't just put work aside if you can and go and do something else instead??

Because those working fulltime from home currently would have zero output

they would have some output, but it would be less than what it was when they went into the office full time.  the media articles state that the output is more than when they went into the office full time in general, which i find hard to believe.

When I was WFH my laptop was switched on the minute I got up, and I left it on throughout the evening, I have no idea why - well I do, because I was an idiot!  The moment an email came in, I replied, whatever time of day it was.....  At home was pretty much the same as at work, I had hoped I'd take lunch, but I guess my excuse for not taking lunch at work (didn't have time), still was the reason at home, I think I thought because I was at home the workload would miraculously diminish........
My husband loves WFH, he has meetings with people all over the world and would usually have to go in the office early or stay late to have calls.  Now he can just be in the house and no long commute, he absolutely loves it.  He's in his study at 08.30, and the door is shut throughout the working day till about 5.30/6.  He says he gets far more done at home, but I can't see how as it's the same hours for him, but he says it's the non interruptions and their calls are now more structured so they get more out of them.

i am not working at the moment

Are you furloughed?

no, i am on a career break.

Obviously your role was easily replaced, maybe they've found someone who actually works when they're WFH

the place where i worked a day from home was not my most recent employer. people did work from home at my most recent employer but i didn't ask to do so as there was no justifcation for me to work at home. i was able to work at home one day a week at the other place because it was a long commute to the office (1.5 hour each way) so they agreed for me to start work at 10am instead of 9.00am and they said i could work from home 2 days a week if i wanted but i thought one day was enough as otherwise i would fall too far behind with work, and it would then become apparent that i wasn't actually doing any work when i was supposedly working from home 

my most recent employer has said that I can come back to work for them when i want to go back to work.  so the position is still there and they are short of staff so i will obviously go back there when i return to work.