Sounds like you need to turn on the “Open to Work” feature on your LinkedIn account…
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Ha, it’s always on. I haven’t updated my profile to include this job yet.
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Good luck man. All you can do is request a 1 on 1 meeting with your boss, then ask him/her to WFH x amount of days a week, explaining how it actually benefits the company (more productive, better quality of work using your assets). If you get a cast iron no then, then you start applying for somewhere that doesn’t live in the dark ages.
If I had to commute to the office 5 days a week, purely from a money perspective my salary would effectively go down nearly 3 grand.
It’s not just money though. The fact you can just get up and you’re already at work without having to be around people on a commute is worth thousands more to me because I hate it so much.
I get to walk my son to school 4 days a week.
I get to go out and exercise at lunch.
I can have dinner ready at a reasonable hour etc
The one day I have to go in is the worst day of the week for me. It’s pointless on every level but i have to go through with it for a bit of presenteeism. It’s a small price to pay for getting to stay home for the other 4 though.
I have a bad feeling my comfy situation might also be pulled from me at some point. When that happens I’ll be smashing indeed.
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I go in 2 or 3 times a week, but I like
Going in. Free food on a Friday, we have dogs in the office and for some promotions it’s really helpful to sit in a meeting room and go through the process together.
But I don’t need to be there every day so I’m not.
I also fucking love my job so that helps.
This is from a CEO of a place where I used to work - business person of the year, had to leave that in the screenshot
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If I was sent that I’d immediately start looking for new jobs. There’s absolutely no way I would ever go back to working somewhere that mandated 5 days a week in the office.
The pandemic was genuinely awful on so many ways but one of the silver linings for me has been this change to wfh/flexible workings. It’s improved my life substantially.
I’m in the office today as I’m supposed to be in 3 days but had only been in Tuesday so thought I should show face. Tbf next week is my last week anyway so I could have said fuck it, but it’s not so bad when it’s quiet. Have already spent £6 on a coffee and pastry though
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That’s exactly where I am. Fortunately most senior managers live miles away so there’s no massive push to return more days a week.
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We’re supposed to be in 3 days a week but my boss lives even further away than me so there’s this unofficial ‘just come in when you want’ thing going on in our bit of the organisation
“it’s not because we don’t trust our staff, or want to watch everything they do” says the CEO wanting to micromanage his staff because he doesn’t trust them
Sadiq Khan pissed me off recently by saying that WFH is bad for London. fuck off. you know what’s bad for London mate? almost half of night clubs closing since 2019. every single high street with the same corporation chain stores. local and independent businesses being priced out of existence.
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Also that’s just a really shit rationale for making people work in offices. Times change. Might as well be banning cars and trains to keep blacksmiths in a job.
exactly. what about all those poor orphans who need jobs going up chimneys. we should ban electricity and gas heating systems so they can stay in a job
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I go in every fortnight for 2 days.
Except this week, where I’m at WWE Headquarters in Connecticut strangely.
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Plus points for some…minus points for others. I would HATE to have dogs in an office.
Pizza Fridays, table tennis tables, dogs in the office, paid socials etc.
It’s all just cringe because the vibe these companies go for is trying to make a fake ‘culture’ of like…‘oooh were all so relaxed and we’re just like one big family yeah’.
Trouble is, they’re families full of members who simply disappear, never to be heard of again when they’re not financially viable with alarming regularity.
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Most families are dysfunctional as fuck, why would anyone want to work somewhere like a family? The parent/child power dynamic, sibling rivalry, difficult but necessary conversations avoided…it’s cool getting on with the people you work with but they’re still basically buying chunks of your life. It’s not a family.
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Yer its like an actual meal and we all eat together, all my colleagues are lovely.
Remember what we sell at my place. I’m not forced in the office but 2 days a week is chill with me and I like interacting with people otherwise I’d go insane.
We all share the same political views, its a great place.
Dogs are mint in the office, if you dont like dogs you would not want to work here.
That linkedin post was from an OLD CEO I worked for.
Feel like you are having a dig for enjoying my place of work – we are in the countryside, village doesn’t even have a shop.
Not at all. I’m glad you like it.
Your old boss soundals like a LinkedIn megatwat.
I’m just saying (not specifically to you) to be real careful over places where they try and make out the workplace is all chummy chummy.
At the end of the day you are on a P&L sheet somewhere. Some places are more honest about that than others.
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Oh yer our finances are very transparent within the company
I’ve had bad experiences with the ‘we’re a family’ workplaces.
I’m glad your work is bucking that trend.
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They’ve never said we’re a family, just people get on and it’s a nice vibe.
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Lets all work there <3
We had an Ecom position open last week, wasn’t sure if it would be interesting to anyone.
Did launch a few new strains this week!
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