I do miss my audio books from the train commute though.
This Business and Moment...
- Thread starter randomshenans
- Start date
Same here, in the office 100% is a no go. Also pointless for me as I will be working in Azure as I move towards Cloud technologies for my career.
I listen to them while at home or in the gym. Same with my podcasts.
I read kindle books while riding on the bike trainer at lunch, so at least it's more productive and kills two birds
Listen, show offs, not all of us have time to work on our physique.
dude I eat more I train, it's always more for my sanity than it is my body hahaha damage limitation
Listen, show offs, not all of us have time to work on our physique.
Got to make time when working from home, sitting front of a screen for hours isn't good for our waist line long term.
Do you like midges?
I like mountains....and midges unfortunately come with the territory. Fortunately I'm quite fond of being in the mountains in winter
For me, 100% remote is the way....50:50 you're still stuck having to commute. 100% remote and you can live anywhere....
100% remote where the only commuting is onto client site and is 100%(or thereabouts) reimbursableI like mountains....and midges unfortunately come with the territory. Fortunately I'm quite fond of being in the mountains in winter
For me, 100% remote is the way....50:50 you're still stuck having to commute. 100% remote and you can live anywhere....
Yeah, but na. Companies have been outsourcing for decades. Moving my sack of a physical body to colocate with someone elses gross sack of body isn't a reason to pay my enormous day rate.
And like I said, if we do need to colocate, it may as well be meaningful and outcome focused versus a bunch of boomers bringing cake in on their birthday and Karen's whinging in the break room.
Where have you been the last two years? Almost every firm is doing remote working. Some are even dropping hours/days as productivity has surged. The only people upset are the investment banks who own property, and those who read newspaper headlines (whom have been nudged by the same investment banks to publish such outrage)Sure, we’ll see in a few years if there is mass uptake of remote working
I've long said (here's a thead from 15 years ago: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...d-by-the-global-market.17662960/#post-8342063 ) that there should be a move towards more of an equilibrium whereby UK wages should be pushed down and third world wages pushed up. The issue however is it that physical location in itself often isn't the only difference between locations, you also have other barriers like language, culture, legal etc that can distort the market slightly.
If you have ever tried to outsource anything other than basic tasks you will know it never works out like that. It's more a question of if the cost savings are worth the drop off in quality
I've previously worked on a few projects to bring work back onshore and drive efficiency savings through automation and processes improvement. The more work that gets digitized the easier it is to automate and streamline work flows
The economic advantages of outsourcing tech work to India and China were almost zero already when I was still in finance 8+ years ago. As wages have improved it just doesn't make sense outsource any more.
Any employers not offering remote work are going to lose out on access to a big chunk of skilled workers, particularly in tech. I've just turned down decent offers because they wouldn't offer remote. With the state of the skills shortage in post-Brexit Britain, I can pretty much walk into any job I please right now, and I'm going to the places offering flexible/remote work.