London’s WFH habit: Huge numbers of workers are being urged to stay away from the office, survey shows

by F0urLeafCl0ver

11 comments

  1. I mean, did you see Euston station? Etc… people don’t want to sit in overcrowded trains losing hours of their life packed as sardines

  2. Funny because all the job posts and recruiters are keen on 3 to 4 days in the office all of a sudden

  3. Good. Pay is terrible compared to the cost to live in London. Then you add the cost of travel and losing 2~ hours in a loud and dirty cage.

    There is no downside to working from home (if your living situation allows for it).

    The only people who are against working from home are middle age and or managers who like to micromanage.

  4. I WFH but the other day had to go to the doctor at conmute time. What a miserable experience. Trains fully packed with people coughing everywhere, had to run to change platforms…only for the train to be almost 20 mins delayed because of a signal fault. Horrendous. I felt cold outside , then i fel hot inside the train but no space to take off my jacket.

  5. I work for a very large media company. There was absolutely no reason to be office based unless you were of a certain management level. The only reasons we had a big prestigious office full of staff in a super-premium landmark location was a) we’d always done and b) because all our competitors did. COVID changed everything.

    As soon as I got WFH nailed into my contract post-pandemic we fucked off to live in the Lake District. Lots of colleagues did similar. The office space required is now half the size of what it was.

    Also, WFH seems to REALLY annoy Nick fucking Ferrari. So there’s that as well

  6. Once again headline has nothing to do with the article. No ones urging anything here and the stats pretty much back up what we already know

  8. If you can do your job from home then so can someone on the other side of the world for 1/3 the cost

  10. I prefer working from home but my new job is insisting I be in everyday. Absolute waste of time commuting to do exactly what I can do from home or anywhere.

  11. I have a new job (it was a nightmare getting one so I was desperate) which is five days in the office.

    I’ve commuted since the 90’s and it was bad back then, but fuck me it’s bad now as well. It’s utterly demoralising for a 25 mile journey to take 2 hours and cost £14.00.

    Out of the 25 days I have worked in the new job – I have had 4 days of ‘stress free’ travel (so the buses came on time and the tube worked to time). It’s fucking ridiculous.

    It literally makes me miserable, I like my new job but the travel is exhausting, frustrating and maddening.

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