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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bird on October 13, 2020, 11:14:41 AM
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Interesting Poll on https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/572009/ (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/572009/)
thought I'd see what people think here.
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No brainer for me. If I had a choice to work from home full time I would jump at it.
My wife does. I have to go to work everyday and deal with a bunch of muppets face to face >:D
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My work is not suitable for working from home.
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My work is not suitable for working from home.
Neither is mine but IF I had a choice.....
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I've been working from home since mid-March, and I'm over it....
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Would be like living full time at your favourite holiday spot . Great at first but Meh! same same, after the initial shine / novelty wore off .
Biggest part of it is you cant get away from it [ Your work] and turds think your on call 24 / 7 just for them ....
The wife worked from home for the past few years.. Muppet of a boss would ring up at midnight / anytime ... wanting this n that / figures etc ..even when we were on holidays ..
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I’ve been working from home for over 10 years.
Love it!!!!!!!!
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For me, it's become more like living at work.....
My view of it might change if we weren't in lockdown.
Not having a life to counterbalance it tends to screw things up.
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Once work goes back properly, I won't have a choice but to be back on site. It's been lovely not driving to work for a while now, but I'm starting to get over working from home, and wifey is sick of having me home working when she can't have her stereo going lol. Plus I moved out to the caravan to work from and it has no air-con, and the days are starting to warm up.....
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Would be like living full time at your favourite holiday spot . Great at first but Meh! same same, after the initial shine / novelty wore off .
Biggest part of it is you cant get away from it [ Your work] and turds think your on call 24 / 7 just for them ....
The wife worked from home for the past few years.. Muppet of a boss would ring up at midnight / anytime ... wanting this n that / figures etc ..even when we were on holidays ..
Yes i found a similar issue.. While I liked working from home somehow the rest of the business thought that meant I sat at my lap top or could just walk to the next room and fire it up anywhere from 6am to 10pm. I actually found on average when I did my 5 months working from home my hours increased
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I'm very lucky in that I can work from home.
I came home on March 19th and only went back to the office once. (at 8am one Sunday morning to pick up my computer, monitors and everything)
with VOIP phones, and NBN at work and home... It's seamless.
I won't be (ever) going back.
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For me, it's become more like living at work.....
My view of it might change if we weren't in lockdown.
Not having a life to counterbalance it tends to screw things up.
I agree, novelty has wore off after 7 months but i would like 1-2 days at home a week once we get back to normal if that's possible.
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I've been able to work from home for 20 years where I'd usually work 1-2 days a week from home. After working from home full time since March, I'd like to go back to 3 days from home 2 days in the office. You can't beat the human interaction that in person meetings give you.
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Plus I moved out to the caravan to work from
Can you claim it on tax - your new office that is :)
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I've been able to work from home for 20 years where I'd usually work 1-2 days a week from home. After working from home full time since March, I'd like to go back to 3 days from home 2 days in the office. You can't beat the human interaction that in person meetings give you.
Thats it, didn't know how much i had missed it.
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Work from home 3 days a week, two in the office to keep the social face to face contacts going.
I dont think I will ever be going back to fulltime office based work.
We have 47 staff in our Facilities Management Unit. All work from home to some degree now.
I find it much more productive both work wise and personally (no muppets to deal with). I spread my day between 8:00AM and 6:00 PM as I want. For example, at 4:00 I will go and pick up the grandson from Childcare and drop him home, then work thru till 5:30.
:cheers:
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How many people have had an onsite OH&S inspection of their "Home workspace" ??? ex had a chance to work from home few years ago, they inspected the "office" 3 times before signing off…
Very few I bet
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I have worked from home for the last 8 years. I love it. Most of our staff work from home (scattered across the globe) and people are very good with sticking to "office hours". That's where email is good. Send me an email anytime you like, but I'll respond the next time I'm working, not right now. Of course we do more than 9-5 (more like 8-6), but yin and yang. Work is good if I need time off for a kids school thing, so it balances out.
Do I miss interaction with others? Well, not really - we have a video call every day so I still get to "see" and talk to everyone on the team. We have a group chat so if someone needs urgent help, wants to let everyone know they're /afk, etc - they ask.
And I get to do kid pick-up and drop-off while the wife goes into the city to work.
For us, it's great.
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How many people have had an onsite OH&S inspection of their "Home workspace" ??? ex had a chance to work from home few years ago, they inspected the "office" 3 times before signing off…
Very few I bet
we have to send in photos of our home workspace with chair, desk and monitor specs before being approved...
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I like it, some people don’t. Simple as that.
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How many people have had an onsite OH&S inspection of their "Home workspace" ??? ex had a chance to work from home few years ago, they inspected the "office" 3 times before signing off…
Very few I bet
My home setup puts the office setup in the shade....
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How many people have had an onsite OH&S inspection of their "Home workspace" ??? ex had a chance to work from home few years ago, they inspected the "office" 3 times before signing off…
Very few I bet
Three time sounds like a waste of resources.....for little reward.
I work for a multi national, our whole Brisbane and Adelaide offices work from home permanently now. The company HQ in Canada briefly discussed home office inspection but quickly binned it as it was no more or less risky than traveling to an office. Just another day following company procedures, standards, min requirements.
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I do service work so impossible to work from home but I do like getting out and about all day. Always meeting new clients, work hours constantly changing from 14hr days to 3 hr days, clients buying me coffee and having a good chat. Not sure I could work at the same place everyday for months/years, same reason I don't think working from home would suit me. And when I'm home I always see the little things that need doing here and there and it distracts me haha!!!
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Apart from the social interaction, you would on the quick informal discussions. A simple "What do you think if we did ...." You probably won't pick up the phone for.
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My home setup puts the office setup in the shade....
Mine is close to the pool and i have kegs of beer nearby :)
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I’ve been working in an office for 30+ years and about 5 years ago I started doing one day per week for home and then about 2 years ago I started doing a 2nd day per week which was fantastic.
Since early March I’ve been full time at home and for the first few weeks I hated it. But I got into the grove of being full time at home and really enjoying it as it gives such a great work/life balance. Today is my first day back in the office (just for a meeting) and I’m hating it and told my boss he won’t be seeing me back this year.
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How many people have had an onsite OH&S inspection of their "Home workspace" ??? ex had a chance to work from home few years ago, they inspected the "office" 3 times before signing off…
Very few I bet
Mine would fail.
Only redeeming feature of my home workspace is the liquor cabinet next to it :)
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I quite enjoy it to be honest.
I was already doing approx 1-3 days a fortnight from home anyway when it suited me.
We got sent home fulltime on 16/3. Been home ever since.
I got my boss's permission to bring home my 2 big monitors, & nice comfy office chair. So glad I did. ;D
For my actual role, it doesn't make much difference where I work - my boss is in Adelaide and rest of my team are in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane & Melbourne.
I deal with various people spread across the country & also our "extended workforce" over in India.
So the I guess only thing I miss is the day to day contact with the people from other parts of the company that I normally share the office here with - I have worked alongside and with many of them for 25 years.
Actually I also miss the free air-conditioning - My 'study' only has a dodgy old box aircon. Summer is threatening to be a bitch this year.
The family can be distracting at times - eg. wife often watching some shoot-em-up police show when she's not at work, but I do have a noise cancelling headset that helps ;D
It's really not much worse than the open plan office for distractions.
Healthwise, it has been much better. No smoko van to tempt me with those evil pies & greasy deep fried treats. I start earlier than I used to, so can finish earlier & can get out & exercise & lose the spare tyre.
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Been working from home for long before Covid hit, and to be honest, working on 4-5 client accounts, it's easier - there's nothing worse than talking to a client when you're onsite with another one.
I work for a large multinational, and in Australia alone, we've stopped lease on 10+ levels around the country, so that's effectively 600-700 now working from home/remotely or hot desking when they do go to an office space
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Ive been very fortunate as ive continued to work right thru as normal .... am unable to work from home anyway as i work in recycling..... my wife is a care worker so she has also worked right thru .... dont know people have managed being basicly cooped up at home .... for me im so over it and like many we have missed many major anniversary/birthdays this year which is the hard part to accecpt...
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. dont know people have managed being basicly cooped up at home
I spoke to 1 member who has worked from home in his caravan parked outside his house since Feb. only done 300klms in his car all year - once or twice to the office.
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I spoke to 1 member who has worked from home in his caravan parked outside his house since Feb. only done 300klms in his car all year - once or twice to the office.
yep (even before the gearbox issues)
my Cruiser had done a total of 47klm between March 19th (when I started working from home) and now.
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How many people have had an onsite OH&S inspection of their "Home workspace" ??? ex had a chance to work from home few years ago, they inspected the "office" 3 times before signing off…
Very few I bet
When I worked at CSIRO, a condition of getting formal permission to work from home was an OHS inspection of your home office set up at your expense, work supplied the laptop. Under covid rules the organisation is supplying a fully kitted out office incl sit stand desks. Pity they threw out thousands of dollars worth of them when the organisation decided it would 'voluntarily' confirm to the APS area per employee (it has its own act just like the ABC) and moved everyone into a little library carrel size dog box. I don't think there are the resources to do the number of OHS assessments needed. No doubt in a year or so across many organisations, the brown stuff will make contact with the spinning blades when the workers comp claims start rolling in.