Can’t believe it’s taken this long to have this discussion. I am all for it.
Won’t someone think of Pret a Mangers profits?!
Great news, any job that can be remote should have that option available to employees by law.
Well the Employment Rights Bill is about more than just remote working, but such reform is long overdue, I fully support it.
I’m not sure this is accurate. The bill includes the right to Flexible Working from day one, not making Remote Work the default.
I believe we already have the right to Flexible work, but to request it after 6 months employment. The bill brings that forward to Day One…It doesn’t necessarily mean that all requests are granted (there are 8 reasons that can be used to reject these requests)
Not all Flexible Working means WfH/Remote. It could also be moving to a 4 day week or doing 10-6 so you have time to drop the kids off at school for example
Hahahhahaha… So funny it’s sad.
This whole bill is a farce.
Sure, you can make the request, and the employer can reject it straight away if they feel like it.
There is absolutely no benefit to the employee in this whole process.
All it is, is a tick-the-box exercise, making them (government and employers) look like they give a hoot.
In real terms (and I’m saying this out of personal experience both as an employee and employer), any flexible work requests rely solely on the goodwill of the approving managers, and/or the company policy being enforced.
If a person requests to work fully remotely and the current work model is hybrid or on site, they will hit a brick wall 🧱
The reasons for rejection are super vague on purpose – it’s to allow companies to align their policies for easy navigation around it.
The title here is misleading at best.
Until farage gets in and bans it.
That’s not what the bill is actually about, it’s for flexible working.
However, Reform will love headlines like these, they’ll use them to latch onto the millions of mainly blue collar workers who can’t work remotely. Probably offer them a tax cut or something.
Anal Sugar isn’t keen
As an member of an IT support team who support 100s of remote workers. From day one is a nightmare, staff are always demanding monitors for the laptop that are supplied, we rarely do, when managers crumble and say yes, users take them home and say they don’t work. The first words from the user is the cables are confusing. Its not connecting to work, I don’t have wi-fi at home is work going to pay for it? Worse ones are the ones who live miles away, who are IT illiterate and lock the laptop due to password failure. There really needs to be some sort of IT test before people take them home.
As others have pointed out already: this article is incorrect as the bill is not trying to introduce remote work as the default.
I can see the usual brainless Reddit comments though demanding fully remote work as the norm and a worker’s right. It has benefits and it absolutely has downsides which people chose to ignore because they focus on the convenience angle alone.
Sure, let’s enable isolation more and more and then complain that the world is not doing enough to combat the same, and blame lack of mental health services for the ever increasing incline of people struggling. Most people are too stupid to make rational decisions.
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Can’t believe it’s taken this long to have this discussion. I am all for it.
Won’t someone think of Pret a Mangers profits?!
Great news, any job that can be remote should have that option available to employees by law.
Well the Employment Rights Bill is about more than just remote working, but such reform is long overdue, I fully support it.
I’m not sure this is accurate. The bill includes the right to Flexible Working from day one, not making Remote Work the default.
I believe we already have the right to Flexible work, but to request it after 6 months employment. The bill brings that forward to Day One…It doesn’t necessarily mean that all requests are granted (there are 8 reasons that can be used to reject these requests)
Not all Flexible Working means WfH/Remote. It could also be moving to a 4 day week or doing 10-6 so you have time to drop the kids off at school for example
Hahahhahaha… So funny it’s sad.
This whole bill is a farce.
Sure, you can make the request, and the employer can reject it straight away if they feel like it.
There is absolutely no benefit to the employee in this whole process.
All it is, is a tick-the-box exercise, making them (government and employers) look like they give a hoot.
In real terms (and I’m saying this out of personal experience both as an employee and employer), any flexible work requests rely solely on the goodwill of the approving managers, and/or the company policy being enforced.
If a person requests to work fully remotely and the current work model is hybrid or on site, they will hit a brick wall 🧱
The reasons for rejection are super vague on purpose – it’s to allow companies to align their policies for easy navigation around it.
The title here is misleading at best.
Until farage gets in and bans it.
That’s not what the bill is actually about, it’s for flexible working.
However, Reform will love headlines like these, they’ll use them to latch onto the millions of mainly blue collar workers who can’t work remotely. Probably offer them a tax cut or something.
Anal Sugar isn’t keen
As an member of an IT support team who support 100s of remote workers. From day one is a nightmare, staff are always demanding monitors for the laptop that are supplied, we rarely do, when managers crumble and say yes, users take them home and say they don’t work. The first words from the user is the cables are confusing. Its not connecting to work, I don’t have wi-fi at home is work going to pay for it? Worse ones are the ones who live miles away, who are IT illiterate and lock the laptop due to password failure. There really needs to be some sort of IT test before people take them home.
As others have pointed out already: this article is incorrect as the bill is not trying to introduce remote work as the default.
I can see the usual brainless Reddit comments though demanding fully remote work as the norm and a worker’s right. It has benefits and it absolutely has downsides which people chose to ignore because they focus on the convenience angle alone.
Sure, let’s enable isolation more and more and then complain that the world is not doing enough to combat the same, and blame lack of mental health services for the ever increasing incline of people struggling. Most people are too stupid to make rational decisions.
Right to ask not right to have – non story
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