Hundreds of cars off the road. We need to start framing remote work as a traffic-saving necessity given our overcapacity infrastructure and watch the outrage merchants go from slating it to promoting it.
Haha get stuffed AIB
But wont somebody think of the corporate landlords?
Up the workers.Â
Good for them! and happy for them
Fantastic news, two days a week in the office should be standard across the board. The main takeaway from this is to join a union.
I’d imagine interested buyers in PTSB are following this also..
Delighted for them – up the workers. It is just crazy for employers to be so inflexible. I used to have to commute 3 hours per day to a job where I sat on Teams meetings all day – pointless, a waste of my time, energy, sanity and money. I would advise anyone in this situation with your jobs to talk to your colleagues and get organised. The power of your employer, is in many cases, an illusion.
Next up is the Department of Finance. They are forcing staff to return an extra day a week, from 2 days to 3 days.
The great only appear great as we live on our knees,
Let Us Rise.
The only people suffering from people working remote are corporate landlords.
The benefits of hybrid and work from home are ridiculous. Far less traffic pollution, better mental health in the majority of the population, cost of living is easier as people can live less city based. Even for the companies they get such a better talent solution as they can hire without needing to focus on having someone based on site.
I know as a fully remote person too I perform way better at home, I have way less sick days as if I’m a little under the weather I just have the heating on and dress a little cosier and sit at the laptop.
This is a good step in the right direction and happy for the workers
This doesn’t seem like much of a win. Sounds like they still have to go to hubs. Cars are still on the road somewhere. People are needlessly filling up public transport to go and sit in a hub and do exactly what they would do at home.
ESB are having the same fight internally at the moment.
WORKER POWER 💪
The senior managers all swan in from nice single digit postcodes with good transport links. Traffic isn’t an issue for them.
AIB. You and anyone with your views can get absolutely fucked to oblivion.
From reading the article this looks like an intrem intrem agreement rather than a “win”. Negotiations are paused for the holidays and will resume in January.Â
This is promising but doesn’t eliminate the possibility that return to work is layoffs in disguise. If it’s true that AIB’s motivation is avoiding paying out redundancy it makes sense for them to punt till after the holidays. Workers losing their jobs is never popular but losing them in the weeks before Xmas is a PR nightmare.
Did a union rep write that article and spinning a win? From my understanding the AIB staff are not happy about this, nothing has changed for them.
Honestly I would link remote work to rates of corporate tax. Any company whose workers are capable of being remote. Who forces them to commute. Should pay higher rates of corporation tax etc. As they’re putting more traffic o. The road, increasing emissions and wear and tear on infrastructure.
Force your staff in pointlessly. Grand, 25% tax rate on all profit. Which is ringfenced for transport infrastructure and combating climate change.
In the last two months I think the traffic around Dublin has been worse than ever. There’s clearly not much long term thinking on drastically improving the transit/roads infrastructure to accommodate extra travellers. It would be such an easy win for the government to go all in on remote work to tackle the traffic issues.
Work for another financial institution which I won’t name in case my boss who I recently spoke to is hovering😅basically got told recently that instead of making my normal 24km round trip to my local hub one town away which I’ve been doing for months and then one day per month down in the other office 200km round trip away, I’ve to now travel weekly to the 200km destination. I wouldn’t care because the travel is fine it’s only an hour commute each but I go down and we do nothing different to any other day there’s never meetings, I sit on my own because the desks around my team are booked & then I am just so less productive because of it because I’m pissed off so my attitude is a fuck them kind of vibe. Blessed to work 3 days from home still but took the job on a handshake agreement I wouldn’t have to commute, always important to get that in writing if anyone else is offered something similar.
Join your union everyone! Look what they can achieve!
Well done to the FSU.
Other unions get your arses into gear.
Set a good precedent for other workers as well. Honestly pointless exercise altogether.
It’s absolutely pointless going to the office is the rest of your team aren’t there. AIB should just embrace remote working now, if they make people go to a office only to have a Zoom calls all day it’s stupid
I don’t see the plus here. They’re saying that while a mediator continues to try find a resolution, the bank is to be as flexible as possible re its hybrid policy. It doesn’t say anything about people being allowed to work remotely 5 days a week. It doesn’t even say 3 days at home, 2 days in office. Where is the progress? Maybe I missed something?
Fantastic news.
So tired of the “back to the office full-time” fundamentalists. A minority of management and their pleasers who want to force all the other employees back full time for mostly BS reasons.
Flexible hybrid work is fine, one or two days a week in the office can be more than enough for certain office job types in many related professions. Nope these fundamentalists want Everyone back, full-time, clogging the streets with traffic, more pressure, more stress – and they don’t care because they a) love the office buzz and b) want to be surrounded by their teams
Same AIB. Back peddling on every decision
This is inherently false news. The only agreement was that pre-existing arrangements for certain personnel will be required to be honoured. Everyone else (98%) is still getting shafted.
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Hundreds of cars off the road. We need to start framing remote work as a traffic-saving necessity given our overcapacity infrastructure and watch the outrage merchants go from slating it to promoting it.
Haha get stuffed AIB
But wont somebody think of the corporate landlords?
Up the workers.Â
Good for them! and happy for them
Fantastic news, two days a week in the office should be standard across the board. The main takeaway from this is to join a union.
I’d imagine interested buyers in PTSB are following this also..
Delighted for them – up the workers. It is just crazy for employers to be so inflexible. I used to have to commute 3 hours per day to a job where I sat on Teams meetings all day – pointless, a waste of my time, energy, sanity and money. I would advise anyone in this situation with your jobs to talk to your colleagues and get organised. The power of your employer, is in many cases, an illusion.
Next up is the Department of Finance. They are forcing staff to return an extra day a week, from 2 days to 3 days.
The great only appear great as we live on our knees,
Let Us Rise.
The only people suffering from people working remote are corporate landlords.
The benefits of hybrid and work from home are ridiculous. Far less traffic pollution, better mental health in the majority of the population, cost of living is easier as people can live less city based. Even for the companies they get such a better talent solution as they can hire without needing to focus on having someone based on site.
I know as a fully remote person too I perform way better at home, I have way less sick days as if I’m a little under the weather I just have the heating on and dress a little cosier and sit at the laptop.
This is a good step in the right direction and happy for the workers
This doesn’t seem like much of a win. Sounds like they still have to go to hubs. Cars are still on the road somewhere. People are needlessly filling up public transport to go and sit in a hub and do exactly what they would do at home.
ESB are having the same fight internally at the moment.
WORKER POWER 💪
The senior managers all swan in from nice single digit postcodes with good transport links. Traffic isn’t an issue for them.
AIB. You and anyone with your views can get absolutely fucked to oblivion.
From reading the article this looks like an intrem intrem agreement rather than a “win”. Negotiations are paused for the holidays and will resume in January.Â
This is promising but doesn’t eliminate the possibility that return to work is layoffs in disguise. If it’s true that AIB’s motivation is avoiding paying out redundancy it makes sense for them to punt till after the holidays. Workers losing their jobs is never popular but losing them in the weeks before Xmas is a PR nightmare.
Did a union rep write that article and spinning a win? From my understanding the AIB staff are not happy about this, nothing has changed for them.
Honestly I would link remote work to rates of corporate tax. Any company whose workers are capable of being remote. Who forces them to commute. Should pay higher rates of corporation tax etc. As they’re putting more traffic o. The road, increasing emissions and wear and tear on infrastructure.
Force your staff in pointlessly. Grand, 25% tax rate on all profit. Which is ringfenced for transport infrastructure and combating climate change.
In the last two months I think the traffic around Dublin has been worse than ever. There’s clearly not much long term thinking on drastically improving the transit/roads infrastructure to accommodate extra travellers. It would be such an easy win for the government to go all in on remote work to tackle the traffic issues.
Work for another financial institution which I won’t name in case my boss who I recently spoke to is hovering😅basically got told recently that instead of making my normal 24km round trip to my local hub one town away which I’ve been doing for months and then one day per month down in the other office 200km round trip away, I’ve to now travel weekly to the 200km destination. I wouldn’t care because the travel is fine it’s only an hour commute each but I go down and we do nothing different to any other day there’s never meetings, I sit on my own because the desks around my team are booked & then I am just so less productive because of it because I’m pissed off so my attitude is a fuck them kind of vibe. Blessed to work 3 days from home still but took the job on a handshake agreement I wouldn’t have to commute, always important to get that in writing if anyone else is offered something similar.
Join your union everyone! Look what they can achieve!
Well done to the FSU.
Other unions get your arses into gear.
Set a good precedent for other workers as well. Honestly pointless exercise altogether.
It’s absolutely pointless going to the office is the rest of your team aren’t there. AIB should just embrace remote working now, if they make people go to a office only to have a Zoom calls all day it’s stupid
I don’t see the plus here. They’re saying that while a mediator continues to try find a resolution, the bank is to be as flexible as possible re its hybrid policy. It doesn’t say anything about people being allowed to work remotely 5 days a week. It doesn’t even say 3 days at home, 2 days in office. Where is the progress? Maybe I missed something?
Fantastic news.
So tired of the “back to the office full-time” fundamentalists. A minority of management and their pleasers who want to force all the other employees back full time for mostly BS reasons.
Flexible hybrid work is fine, one or two days a week in the office can be more than enough for certain office job types in many related professions. Nope these fundamentalists want Everyone back, full-time, clogging the streets with traffic, more pressure, more stress – and they don’t care because they a) love the office buzz and b) want to be surrounded by their teams
Same AIB. Back peddling on every decision
This is inherently false news. The only agreement was that pre-existing arrangements for certain personnel will be required to be honoured. Everyone else (98%) is still getting shafted.
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