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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: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:04AM
When I interviewed with Carbon Black I think last Summer they told me an employee survey found that the remote folks were both happier, with their productivity as measured by such things as bugs fixed and features implemented being higher.
But I was _not_ looking forward to working from home. Had I done so I would have spiraled into a pit of depression so I was going to ask them to spring for a desk at NedSpace, which I'm pretty sure they would have been down with. But in the end I resurrected my consultancy [soggywizards.com] and I leased that desk _myself_ which I'm very, very happy with.
$375 for a one-year lease on a "Permanent Desk" that is, a desk just for me. It's _not_ in a private room, these days I share it with one other. When school starts up some right chap whose business model works so well that he took the entire summer off to hang with his kids will be back. This same guy has a $500 reely-reely _wide_ monitor that curves. It really caught my eye but in the end for the work I'm actually doing - coding and marking up web pages - I'd rather have a 19" monitor. I've got a 17" now; I'll buy the 19" when I get paid Real Soon Now.
A "Hot Desk" is $175 with a one year lease, $275 month-to-month. While the hot desks are first-come first-served there aren't many in use so anyone who wants to be more sociable can work in the hot desk area.
I really _must_ have my own desk so I can leave my shit strewn all over everywhere. I bought a locking cabinet to secure my clients' gadgetry.
If you're around Portland drop me a dime - (971) 386-3996, mike@soggywizards.com and we'll do coffee or lunch or something. I'm in the Union Bank Tower at 11th and Broadway downtown. That particular location totally rocks when I want to go to lunch at three in the morning - 7-Eleven is just the right distance away to stretch my legs and to eat that food which is not meant to be eaten.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]