WTF are we storing this stuff? On the fucking moon?
How are these feckers getting away with it?
I thought it was that DVLA told staff they had to work in the office during lockdown and so many caught Covid that the Union got involved and strikes were threatened (or happened?) unless WFH was allowed.
Still waiting for a provisional licence ordered on June the 12th. The place must be in chaos. They used to turn everything around in 3 weeks.
Iām sure itās being stored in a suitably costly Tory Donorās private duck house extensionā¦ With hourly audits by Deloitte to confirm none of it has been of any use, sorry, used
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3 fucking months for Ā£104m. Itād be cheaper to torch the lot and buy it again
its the market dahlingā¦ (or more accurately, you can get away with blue murder under cover of a pandemic and emergency purchasing rules)
I expect most of it is substandard and the bulk of the cost is stopping anyone finding that out
Itās such a ridiculous unworkable scheme that any rational observer would conclude that it is designed to fail
But of course they wouldnāt do that
Agree, that was what I was implying.
My insider says the unions massively overplayed this (ie higher rates than front line hospital staff, come on) plus management totally losing any control of the situation and failing to plan any contingency.
I guess with no PPE or mitigation in crowded open plan offices with aircon set to recycle as much as possible to save money, thatās not entirely impossible.
Desperate stuff to get office owners rent money in.
Holy fuck, I had to check that story wasnāt from the Poke or the Southend News Network.
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From the wanker who snuck off to Chequers to hide a few weeks agoā¦
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Hurry up and get back to paying for your miserable commute, your miserable desk, surrounded by people you have to pretend to care about whilst risking your well-being. Oh, and donāt forget to buy a Pret.
No Ta, Iām sat in my pants and couldnāt give a monkeys about lease holders rent or what twats have to say about me and strangely Iām more productive than ever.
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I wonder how many are more productive working from home though. Itās certainly not the case in our place with our outdated operating systems , and most definitely not the case in Mrs Pilgrims office , where those that were vulnerable were working from home but couldnāt access half the police systems they needed for the job. Now that they can go back to the office , they continue to work at home thanks. And those in the office are carrying them , under a massive amount of stress.
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Many spend 2-3hrs commuting each day (Think home counties ā London) How much is the quality of their lives improved? Sleep / time management / Transportation costs / environment / overall productivity etc (supposing they have the benefit of decent systems to operate with)
Hereās the latest blurb I can find.
Some takeaways:
60% working from home
26% Plan to continue to do so
Average save Ā£48 per week
Two surveys found 2/3rds of workers felt they were more productive
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Here lies the issue.
If organisations had invested in the IT then home working has been easy, and in our case saved a fortune on travelling and hotels just to attend meetings.
I doubt we will ever go back to where we were.
There is also an issue with how much your employer trusts you and in some cases how much they want to micro manage.
I was talking to a chap the other week who said that his lot were one of the last to be allowed to work from home and among the first to go back to the office.
I asked why that was and he said āThey donāt trust us at allā
I asked who he worked for and he said āSussex Policeā 
(He is in IT support not a Police Officer).
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Pretty much the same attitude at Mrs P office. Also police.
Those are the positive ones. Theyāve also made a list of negative ones. Among them are two which most piss my brother off - a) that heās lonely (heās a single man) and b) that his work has now invaded his home, so he feels he canāt switch it off.
In the end whether it works will come down to the type of job being done and the type of person doing it. Given that we barely had the option in the past though, I think itās a good thing that where it does work better there is now at least some room for it to happen.