Employee Benefits WFH

I don't get the time off bit, doesn't make any sense to me unless you are working longer hours than before. I can understand things like utility expenses, desk/IT equipment etc, but why time off?
 
psd99 said:
WFH will be expensive in the winter, is none worried about their heating bill :p
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Not really, as there's this magical thing called a blanket ;) even on my days off i wouldnt put the heating on any differently to if I was in the office. (Its set to come on early morning in winter and for a little bit in the evening time)

In the office I have a colleague who likes the window open all the time so the rest of us would be in jumpers, blankets and have a heater on. At home I'll be much warmer lol

Actually my gas bill has gone down because I'm now cooking more batch meals due to being at home so it would even out :)
mrbell1984 said:
Go on then I'll throw a new desk and ergonomic fiveub chair in for you as well.
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Did someone say fiveub chair :p

We already have a flexi scheme so post all of this that won't change, we can still use that. Whilst we do part time work/part time furlough my boss has made it clear we need to take back any extra hours worked, in the same month so that furlough claims aren't wrong.

He has also told us all to focus now on what we need to really be comfy working from home long term. I borrowed a colleague's second monitor and got a gaming style chair for £60 (the normal office style chairs were £100 up) if we need a desk we can order one but for now I'm using my dining room table.

I'm not expecting any other benefits. I'm more than happy that we are allowed to continue working from home, I save on commute time which is usually almost 2 hours in total a day, saving roughly £110 in fuel. Plus big bonus, I didn't lose my job when all of this kicked off (touch wood)

We don't have a fancy gym membership blah blah blah or any other benefits bigger companies might offer but I'm not fussed. I have a gym that's free...it's called my living room :cool: got my mat, my weights etc.
 
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I assume you wanted the bike through a cycle to work scheme which means it's saving you money and you pay for it over 12 months.

Why should work compensate you for that? They didn't force you to get one presumably.
 
psd99 said:
what kind of realistic benefits could your employer give you while you wfh during lockdown?
Time off or extra days off is a good start - what has everyone else got?
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Nothing, I'm not sure why they should be giving me anything.
 
I got a track day and the wife got a massive bunch of flowers from my work because I smashed a project. The wife gets 1 day a month screen free and paid.

I get contributions to gas/elec, broadband is paid for my machine was bought by work or at least my cpu, board, memory and power supply. They provided me with a firewall, a sip phone at home and anything else I need. Also any resonable expence is picked up by the firm.
 
Vince said:
I got a track day and the wife got a massive bunch of flowers from my work because I smashed a project. The wife gets 1 day a month screen free and paid.

I get contributions to gas/elec, broadband is paid for my machine was bought by work or at least my cpu, board, memory and power supply. They provided me with a firewall, a sip phone at home and anything else I need. Also any resonable expence is picked up by the firm.
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Supplying you with the equipment to work at home and making a contribution to utilities aren't benefits for WFH.

Would you have received the track day and flowers if you'd smashed the project while working in the office? If so they're not benefits for WFH either.
 
Surveyor said:
Supplying you with the equipment to work at home and making a contribution to utilities aren't benefits for WFH.

Would you have received the track day and flowers if you'd smashed the project while working in the office? If so they're not benefits for WFH either.
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I wouldnt have thought so on the second lot. I think its because the project almost broke me.
 
Em3bbs said:
Would it not have almost broke you if you weren't wfh then? It sounds to be separate to your wfh benefits surely?
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No not at all - The project was us dropping our office at short notice and migrating everything to a DC in a single weekend. This would never have even been on the cards.
 
psd99 said:
what kind of realistic benefits could your employer give you while you wfh during lockdown?
Time off or extra days off is a good start - what has everyone else got?
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It's an odd question,

I would see working at home as a benefit normally, we are being asked to take holiday and being reminded that there will be no carry over due to C19, vacation balance is a liability to the business, they certainly won't be adding to it, nobody has been taking any as there is nowhere to go, but there is a health/wellbeing aspect to actually taking some vacation away from the office even if it is just to a tent in your garden.

They are happy to cover out of the ordinary expenses, if you need things to work, office setup etc, I think that is fair enough to be honest, the number of people loosing their lively hoods because of this situation I am happy to be accommodating rather than a needy type, I just need to keep getting paid :)

Used to commuting from Bristol to Maidenhead, so upstairs to downstair and perhaps to the toilet is a nice change :D
 
sandys said:
I would see working at home as a benefit normally, we are being asked to take holiday and being reminded that there will be no carry over due to C19, vacation balance is a liability to the business, they certainly won't be adding to it, nobody has been taking any as there is nowhere to go, but there is a health/wellbeing aspect to actually taking some vacation away from the office even if it is just to a tent in your garden
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The regulations will allow up to 4 weeks of unused leave to be carried into the next 2 leave years, easing the requirements on business to ensure that workers take statutory amount of annual leave in any one year.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...xed-to-support-key-industries-during-covid-19

Pretty sure HMRC tops your companies opinion about holiday :p. I've not read through it properly so I may have misunderstood it though
 
Pho said:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...xed-to-support-key-industries-during-covid-19

Pretty sure HMRC tops your companies opinion about holiday :p. I've not read through it properly so I may have misunderstood it though
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c19 hasn't stopped us from working or being able to take holiday from work, so yes they can ask you to take it, not a key industry haven't been forced to work over taking holidays.

here is a later doc

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/holiday-entitlement-and-pay-during-coronavirus-covid-19

Key excerpt

These regulations enable workers to carry holiday forward where the impact of coronavirus means that it has not been reasonably practicable to take it in the leave year to which it relates
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Not being able to go somewhere nice is not the same as not being able to take holiday at all.

reasonably practicable definitions exist in that page if you fall under that umbrella then you may have a case, no one in my place does.
 
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Loads of people have misunderstood the guidelines for carrying holiday over, it's not a blanket "hey everyone, roll your holidays over if you don't want to use them" thing.
 
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