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Is it the end of the 9 to 5 working day?
Traditional workplace hours of 9am to 5pm are now only the norm for a minority of workers, research suggests. Just 6% of people in the UK now work such hours, a YouGov survey found. Almost half of people worked flexibly with arrangements such as job sharing or compressed hours, allowing them to juggle other commitments, it found.
Anna Whitehouse, a campaigner whose own flexible working request was refused by her employer, said there were still misconceptions about such arrangements. In her case, her employer refused her request for 15 minutes flexibility at the start and end of each day to enable her to drop off and pick up her children from nursery. "They denied it because they said it would open the floodgates for other people to request the same thing." [...] Since then she has started the Flex Appeal, aimed at convincing firms to trial flexible working and also to make people aware of their right to request flexible working.
[...] Polling firm YouGov surveyed over 4,000 adults for the survey, which was commissioned by fast-food chain McDonald's.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 22 2018, @02:42AM
This is Soggy Jobs' most-popular page. I was trying to sell the uneducated, inexperienced folks in about a bazillion Facebook Work At Home groups that they could do entry level QA or tech support without any experience but no one ever responded, they were far, far too busy with pyramid schemes as well as handing over their online banking credentials to their new... uh... "employers" so as to enable direct deposit.
FB's and Reddit's employment newsgroups are as some Slashbot once said about using the Windows hosts file to block malware "Like discussing which salve to apply when you're on fire".
In other news, I'll be launching Soggy Jobs' crowdfunding campaign [soggy.jobs] on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Considerations that went into this specific date were the home delivery schedule of The Oregonian, the time required to script, storyboard, shoot end edit my pitch video - a friend in LA who is an experienced actor with some directing experience will help me with all that - holidays, vacations, sales Black Friday and otherwise and last but not least the Q4 2018 Earnings Reports Seasons.
Most of all, I've been wanting to crowdfund for over three years ago but have come up with all manner of reasons to put it off. I recently realized that all the good reasons I've had for not launching it weren't really that big a deal, rather that unless I picked a _specific_ date then _stuck_ to it, it was just never going to happen.
My reasons for putting it off were mostly not having a clue what kind of swag to offer. I've got some help from SN - USB sticks are said to be good. I'll get them massed produced with the URL on one side and "The Global Employer Index" on the other.
I'll preload these sticks with the entire site as well as installers for Windows and Mac OS X to configure a local webserver. OS X comes with Apache preinstalled so there's just the config files. I don't know what Win10 has in the way of a personal webserver but that stick _could_ have Win64 Apache 2.4 on it. There would also be a script for setting it up with Linux and BSD.
This way you could look for jobs while offline.
I have three T-Shirts in mind, one with the new logo that I'm going to pay a Branding Consultant to design, the second with the Soggy Wizards Logo Bug [warplife.com], the third with my Eyeball Tree [warplife.com] which for reasons I don't fully understand turns out to be the single most-popular document out of all the web pages I've ever had other than my article on legal music downloading [warplife.com]
The Remote Work Page's Tiger Striping Javascript [soggy.jobs] doesn't work for any but the first table on the page. I'll fix it Real Soon Now. Doubtlessly the problem is that I'd been doing hookers and blow for a week before I wrote tiger-stripe.js. And yes: "Tiger Striping" is the correct term for it.
Each remote work listing names a city where your manager would work. Sometimes remote employers require you to be in the same country, sometimes they don't. I don't attempt to keep track of that nor whether the jobs are truly remote or only telecommuting. You'll have to find out from the job descriptions on each company's own site, most you'll likely have to ask for clarification after they've responded to your application.
I distinguish the two in that remote work is _truly_ remote. The employer commonly wants you to be in within a few hours of their time zone. It's common for remote employers to require their employee be in North America.
By contrast, Telecommuting requires you to show up at the office at least once a week for meetings. Sometimes you're required to work on-site one or two days each week.
When I was at Apple in the mid-nineties they were going through some rough times. This led Apple to display some really nice desks just inside the secure area in 1 Infinite Loop as well as to tell all their sales staff they were going to have to work at home but hey, that's cool cause we're going to supply you with these really cool, hip and trendy desks despite that you'll take your own life as a result of forced social isolation.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]