They’ll just introduce some WFH tax if they did it here, they’ll find a way to get you back for not buying an overpriced coffee or “panini” from one of their mates chains daily.
I really appreciate work from home and believe it should be part of advanced service economies moving forward.
However can we please stop doing this fucking thing where we legally structure everything we want as a right?
By all means I would love if we were more proactive in joining unions that could better negotiate for work from home stipulations, or to have a vibrant labour market that forced employers to create more work from home friendly policies in order to attract the best talent.
Making something a right doesn’t make it magically appear and there is no free lunch where a government can bring this in and you will not see some reaction from employers should it create a competitive disadvantage.
PSA a lot of companies are running around trying to get employees to sign something that guarantees you in the office a certain number of days. Don’t sign!
Looking forward to another Irish Times’ Opinion piece on why this isn’t what we really want
Yeah I dunno Ireland isnt great at copying Netherlands…
Misleading headline. It’s essentially the same as our right to request nonsense.
Too fucking right to! In times like this with skyrocketing fuel prices, WFH should be highly encouraged to get as many people off roads as possible. There’ll always be those that prefer the office and there’ll always be those sadists that want to ***drive to the office.*** Work from home for those who want should help ease the cost of fuel by lowering demand for those who would rather be in offices.
Good. For those it works for it should not be up to a some notion a ceo has about pretty little desks in a warehouse with cacophony and covid. Technology exists use it (obvious it isn’t for everyone but those who want it should have it snd cuts down on traffic)
Some companies I know had already began building huge offices pre COVID that only got finished recently and they are now going back to making employees come in 3-5 days a week . 90 percent sure it’s just because spending a couple hundred million on an office that’s empty looks bad so they are just trying to change the optics.
I do think the remote world is a harder way to learn for new hires out of college though, at least for me in IT. But the overall list of benefits is astounding.
Housing market in citys,dying rural economies,brain drain from rural areas,traffic jams, environment. WFH addresses all these issues to some extent.
The only real issue – this would create at least pan-europen if not global labour market.
Cities should be made for living and socialising. Life is not about being stuck in traffic or being forced to accept what others find comfortable.
I’m all for getting together once a week as a team but this could be done in some type of office share scheme. We made a joint leap, let’s not go backwards
Sounds great in theory, but too many jobs in big international companies can easily be moved to other countries that will allow them make thier own decisions.
We are already an expensive place to do business, start limiting employees rights as well and they will vote with their feet.
Also, who decides what jobs can or can not be done from home?
I am not sure about our current government, who are at best useless fools, and at worst doing it on purpose.
Tech companies have invested in property here. If they don’t need it they don’t pay for it. That leaves property holders with assets that devalue.
So property owners will push against this. And not housing properties. Literal glass buildings.
Watch this space.
Mainland Europe sure but never Ireland and UK. They worship at the altar of money. Just keep working harder until you die!
It’s ironic, how come this wasn’t a thing before Covid?
Computers were there ages ago, so did internet and video call clients?
Legal right to work from home outside office hours
Dutch Gold
What’s stopping the jobs moving to a country with cheaper labour? My company has moved a few roles already to India & Bucharest
Won’t someone think of the landlords? If you all WFH your businesses will take up less oddice space and pay less rent.
Won’t someone think of the landlords?
Also is there a public comment section in the paper where you can start attacking this paid for ‘opinion’?
I’m supposed to go to the office twice a week but I’ve never been to the office. It’s hybrid work but the reality is that even if I go to the office I’m still remote to my immediate team or manager.
I might consider going once or twice a month. I can’t find a real compelling reason to go.
I work 100% from home since before covid and I love it, but how the fuck is it a legal right?! That makes no sense at all for business owners…
A glaring contrast against the limp-dicked “right to request WFH” legislation being introduced in Ireland.
This is gonna make the weekly shop way more interesting.
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They’ll just introduce some WFH tax if they did it here, they’ll find a way to get you back for not buying an overpriced coffee or “panini” from one of their mates chains daily.
I really appreciate work from home and believe it should be part of advanced service economies moving forward.
However can we please stop doing this fucking thing where we legally structure everything we want as a right?
By all means I would love if we were more proactive in joining unions that could better negotiate for work from home stipulations, or to have a vibrant labour market that forced employers to create more work from home friendly policies in order to attract the best talent.
Making something a right doesn’t make it magically appear and there is no free lunch where a government can bring this in and you will not see some reaction from employers should it create a competitive disadvantage.
PSA a lot of companies are running around trying to get employees to sign something that guarantees you in the office a certain number of days. Don’t sign!
Looking forward to another Irish Times’ Opinion piece on why this isn’t what we really want
Yeah I dunno Ireland isnt great at copying Netherlands…
Misleading headline. It’s essentially the same as our right to request nonsense.
Too fucking right to! In times like this with skyrocketing fuel prices, WFH should be highly encouraged to get as many people off roads as possible. There’ll always be those that prefer the office and there’ll always be those sadists that want to ***drive to the office.*** Work from home for those who want should help ease the cost of fuel by lowering demand for those who would rather be in offices.
Good. For those it works for it should not be up to a some notion a ceo has about pretty little desks in a warehouse with cacophony and covid. Technology exists use it (obvious it isn’t for everyone but those who want it should have it snd cuts down on traffic)
Some companies I know had already began building huge offices pre COVID that only got finished recently and they are now going back to making employees come in 3-5 days a week . 90 percent sure it’s just because spending a couple hundred million on an office that’s empty looks bad so they are just trying to change the optics.
I do think the remote world is a harder way to learn for new hires out of college though, at least for me in IT. But the overall list of benefits is astounding.
Housing market in citys,dying rural economies,brain drain from rural areas,traffic jams, environment. WFH addresses all these issues to some extent.
The only real issue – this would create at least pan-europen if not global labour market.
Cities should be made for living and socialising. Life is not about being stuck in traffic or being forced to accept what others find comfortable.
I’m all for getting together once a week as a team but this could be done in some type of office share scheme. We made a joint leap, let’s not go backwards
Sounds great in theory, but too many jobs in big international companies can easily be moved to other countries that will allow them make thier own decisions.
We are already an expensive place to do business, start limiting employees rights as well and they will vote with their feet.
Also, who decides what jobs can or can not be done from home?
I am not sure about our current government, who are at best useless fools, and at worst doing it on purpose.
Tech companies have invested in property here. If they don’t need it they don’t pay for it. That leaves property holders with assets that devalue.
So property owners will push against this. And not housing properties. Literal glass buildings.
Watch this space.
Mainland Europe sure but never Ireland and UK. They worship at the altar of money. Just keep working harder until you die!
It’s ironic, how come this wasn’t a thing before Covid?
Computers were there ages ago, so did internet and video call clients?
Legal right to work from home outside office hours
Dutch Gold
What’s stopping the jobs moving to a country with cheaper labour? My company has moved a few roles already to India & Bucharest
Won’t someone think of the landlords? If you all WFH your businesses will take up less oddice space and pay less rent.
Won’t someone think of the landlords?
Also is there a public comment section in the paper where you can start attacking this paid for ‘opinion’?
I’m supposed to go to the office twice a week but I’ve never been to the office. It’s hybrid work but the reality is that even if I go to the office I’m still remote to my immediate team or manager.
I might consider going once or twice a month. I can’t find a real compelling reason to go.
I work 100% from home since before covid and I love it, but how the fuck is it a legal right?! That makes no sense at all for business owners…
A glaring contrast against the limp-dicked “right to request WFH” legislation being introduced in Ireland.
This is gonna make the weekly shop way more interesting.