Whats that figure -commuting costs… or £5 lunches and £3 coffees.
Yup.
More than commuting and lunch costs?
Doubt
Arn’t offices classed as buisnesses?
If so then they don’t have a price cap that would cost the buisness more than it’s staff working from home.
Unless you live a short walk away from work, the savings on transport costs will normally outweigh the increased household cost.
Speculative nonsense headline, how is this a good thing to post on here. Obviously running a car or buying a train season ticket costs more than that anyway.
Heating one room for a day is maybe 10kWh * 15p * 120 days = £180
Laptop and monitor and light = 1kWh * 50p * 120 days = £60
You could even buy the smart thermostat and smart TRVs to make it very easy to heat just one room, and you are still only at ~£740
Cool, so still less than commuting to an office.
Seems like a reasonable price to offset the cost, time and stress of commuting. Great!
That’s still only about 60% of what my commute would cost, and that’s before even factoring in other expenses like food.
> Rail travel into London (from outside Greater London) is the most expensive type of commute with an average cost of £387 per month
£387*12 = £4,644. So if you have to commute into London, you could save an extra £2,144 by working from home.
Even ignoring the fact I don’t pay for train fare or for shop-bought lunches, or the various snacks and perks allowed of one commuting to work (like beer on the Friday train home)… and ignoring the fact that I earn a lot more in remote work….
It’s worth the cost god damn it.
My wife is at home full time with 2 young kids – adding a PC being on for me is hardly going to make a difference when commuting is taken into account.
It’s more than a little suspect how many articles are encouraging a return to office with the energy (greed) crisis as the excuse.
No it couldn’t.
You think a bought and paid for right wing shitrag of a media outlet would just twist numbers like that?
I still save money, trains are so ridiculously overpriced I’d spend more than that for a short ish commute per year
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Still cheaper than commuting
They are banging the return to the office drum so hard it’s hilarious
Commuting to the office could cost some up to £5k, so…
Haha would not surprise me if part of this is to get people back into the office.
This story is originally sourced form the Daily Mail and is clearly part of a push to get people backing in offices.
Even has a side panel stating “WORKING FROM HOME DOES DAMAGE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH, SAY EXPERTS”. The expert in question is Malcolm Gladwell, who once said “[I work better when I’m comfortable. After a stint on the sofa, it’s out into the world.”](https://www.theguardian.com/money/2005/mar/05/workandcareers.politicsphilosophyandsociety)
In fact, his [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/malcolmgladwell/?hl=en) is full of images of him working in places that aren’t an office..
In saved commuting costs?
Whats that figure -commuting costs… or £5 lunches and £3 coffees.
Yup.
More than commuting and lunch costs?
Doubt
Arn’t offices classed as buisnesses?
If so then they don’t have a price cap that would cost the buisness more than it’s staff working from home.
Unless you live a short walk away from work, the savings on transport costs will normally outweigh the increased household cost.
Speculative nonsense headline, how is this a good thing to post on here. Obviously running a car or buying a train season ticket costs more than that anyway.
Heating one room for a day is maybe 10kWh * 15p * 120 days = £180
Laptop and monitor and light = 1kWh * 50p * 120 days = £60
You could even buy the smart thermostat and smart TRVs to make it very easy to heat just one room, and you are still only at ~£740
Cool, so still less than commuting to an office.
Seems like a reasonable price to offset the cost, time and stress of commuting. Great!
That’s still only about 60% of what my commute would cost, and that’s before even factoring in other expenses like food.
Oh look, more propaganda 🙄
https://standout-cv.com/cost-of-living-uk#commuting
> Rail travel into London (from outside Greater London) is the most expensive type of commute with an average cost of £387 per month
£387*12 = £4,644. So if you have to commute into London, you could save an extra £2,144 by working from home.
Even ignoring the fact I don’t pay for train fare or for shop-bought lunches, or the various snacks and perks allowed of one commuting to work (like beer on the Friday train home)… and ignoring the fact that I earn a lot more in remote work….
It’s worth the cost god damn it.
My wife is at home full time with 2 young kids – adding a PC being on for me is hardly going to make a difference when commuting is taken into account.
It’s more than a little suspect how many articles are encouraging a return to office with the energy (greed) crisis as the excuse.
No it couldn’t.
You think a bought and paid for right wing shitrag of a media outlet would just twist numbers like that?
I still save money, trains are so ridiculously overpriced I’d spend more than that for a short ish commute per year