why all the hate for hs2?

[Mr Badger]

At no point have I made such a claim, nor have I moved any goalposts. You’re just airing your individual grievances against your individual employer. That doesn’t make it applicable to other employers or even other teams within your organisation.

Not everything is for or against, in fact hardly anything is. Nuance is allowed and the reality. What works for one employee let alone employer doesn’t work for another.

To repeat "I haven't been posting about the impact on me personally". It's actually worked out fine for me.

I think my original observation was about the change in the direction of travel regarding the corporate attitude to homeworking.

What works for one employee let alone employer doesn’t work for another.

So what works for one large UK finance sector company with thousands of employees based in city office blocks, doesn't work for another large UK finance sector company with thousands of employees based in city office blocks?

Actually, consider that rhetorical.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

No, because they make up a tiny fraction of the workforce in just one sector. Even within your organisation, the work you do will be different to other teams in other lines of business.

Full working from home works fine for more senior staff with decades of experience who learnt their role fully in office surrounded by people who already know what they are doing.

However, there is an ever growing library of evidence which is highlighting a very real and emerging problem. Those that haven’t spent their tons of time developing in role while surrounded by more experienced people to learn from directly in office are falling behind. They are developing slower and are less productive compared to cohorts who grew up in office.

The only real way to ‘fix’ this problem for most employers is to get people back in office to properly support these cohorts to develop in role. That’s not just the inexperienced cohorts but also the more experienced colleagues to support them.

 

[chrcoluk]

Be a city on the moon before HS2 is done.
In 2040 it will be announced the project is back on track again for 2070 completion, and costs are back under control at only 300 billion.

 

[Diddums]

Be a city on the moon before HS2 is done.
In 2040 it will be announced the project is back on track again for 2070 completion, and costs are back under control at only 300 billion.

Well, we've had the world's first trillionaire, maybe we can proudly hold the flag of "the world's first trillion dollar project that only delivered 30% of it's original promise and three decades late"

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Well, we've had the world's first trillionaire, maybe we can proudly hold the flag of "the world's first trillion dollar project that only delivered 30% of it's original promise and three decades late"

Rest of the world will have moved on from trains by then. Transporting matter like Star Trek, but HS2 *will* be delivered, no matter how long it takes and how much it costs.
We’ll get high speed rail! Sure it’s only high speed for 100 odd miles, but we’ll do it. HS2 means HS2!

 

[Ali195]

It is everywhere though. National highways cancelled a contract local to me for the Newark Bypass and whilst it is desperately needed. £300 million for a couple of miles of flyover is just a joke.

Humber bridge cost £450 million adjust for inflation and that was an engineering marvel.

I ******* knew it!!! My mum literally lives next to the cattle market and every time I visit I’m like “any news on that flyover? Because I’ll see it when I believe it. Until spades hit the ground that thing will get cancelled”

I’ll never forget my Dad saying A46 bypass done in 2000’s to Newark needed building 50 years ago when was he was a lad but kept getting cancelled over and over again. This is why I was so skeptical and of course they never did do a proper full job back then, leaving the remain last leg for this Newark Bypass.

I noticed they’ve already added another roundabout on down the road, Middlebeck Way. I do nope they don’t fill the A46 with roundabouts as each new build town springs up but instead do a proper job with bridges and joining ramps. Can’t stand mile after mile of stop start dual carriageways.

Edit; news suggests it’s a direct result of 15 billion needed to fund military spending.