I Support the lorry drivers thread

[TW]Fox;11765739 said:
I completely agree. Frankly with the jobs most people do these days there is little technical reason why homeworking cannot be adopted on a huge scale - its only the inherent distrust most employers have of their employees that prevents this.
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Is it true that 'most' people could work from home? I doubt it very much.
 
dirtydog said:
Is it true that 'most' people could work from home? I doubt it very much.
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In certain industries a lot of people could, but then thats going on job role rather than actual physical ability, a lot of people would be restricted due to homes not being suitable (no spare room etc).
 
AJUK said:
Here endeth the lesson in how our government are ripping us off as the price per barrel is the same for everyone.
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Shock, horror! The government are ripping us off by spending money on the country! They don't spend it all on second homes and taxis for their wives you know. (Most of it maybe, but not all ;-)

The place for changing government policy is at the ballot box, not on the road. <pub landlord>This isn't France.</pub landlord>

However if you listen *very* carefully you'll hear the deafening silence which is the Tory policy on fuel taxation (and everything else for that matter). That should tell you something about the harsh reality behind fuel tax. It's there because we need it to both dampen demand on our overcrowded roads, and to pay for things like the nurses looking after the army of old folk we farm off into homes instead of looking after ourselves.

Everything has a price. The mantra of 'just cut expenditure' is as old as the political hills. Yet every government -- Tory or Labour -- ends up spending more than the last because the UK population's expectations keep rising faster than tax revenue... which is why the country's up to its eyeballs in debt.

IMO anyway. Posting in threads like this is like urinating in ye proverbial winde though. I should know better at my age. :-)

Andrew McP
 
dirtydog said:
Of course, but most? I often wonder if people who work in offices tend to forget that an awful lot of people - I believe I'm right in saying, most people - do not.
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Probably, its quite easy to forget that there are so many people not in offices when you work on a site with office space for thousands and deal with other companies of similar or larger size.
 
[TW]Fox;11765739 said:
I completely agree. Frankly with the jobs most people do these days there is little technical reason why homeworking cannot be adopted on a huge scale - its only the inherent distrust most employers have of their employees that prevents this.
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My wife works from home and is more productive as a result I would say, there are less distractions than in the office, she is happier to be at home. Her employers business actually suits the homeworker.
 
[TW]Fox;11765739 said:
I completely agree. Frankly with the jobs most people do these days there is little technical reason why homeworking cannot be adopted on a huge scale - its only the inherent distrust most employers have of their employees that prevents this.
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I agree completely. I have an 80 mile round trip each day and the funny thing is I can completely do all aspects of my job from home. I have asked if I can work from home but have been told that if I want to work from home everyone would want to; which I replied surely there should be a limit for travel etc IE over 25 mile round trip and your able to do your job from home then fine work from home. But some companies are very set in there ways. My company also said they were worried that the same amount of work wouldnt get done. The funny thing is once I worked from home instead of going sick one day as a favour to them and I did more work when I was ill at home then I would have in the office.

I think if the government should start these sort of schemes along with companies. If they get abused then the company should do something towards the employee or tell them they can only work in the office. I'm sure for most companies it would save them some money not being in the office.
 
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The Government and the Country are so broke they reckon any rebate would have to be paid for through more borrowed money, like the 10p tax band fiasco. What a shame they borrowed 2.7 billion pounds as a bribe to try and win a by-election.
 
[TW]Fox;11766238 said:
Is it true thats what I said? No, it is not.
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You are splitting hairs then.

[TW]Fox;11765739 said:
I completely agree. Frankly with the jobs most people do these days there is little technical reason why homeworking cannot be adopted on a huge scale - its only the inherent distrust most employers have of their employees that prevents this.
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[TW]Fox;11766376 said:
I said homeworking could be introduced on a huge scale, not that everyone can homework. Obviously you can't ;)
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"Frankly with the jobs most people do these days"... that sounds as if you are saying most people do jobs which lend themselves to home working.
 
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