I have been working from home since coming off furlough a year ago. My work purely consists of sitting in front of a PC working through "cases" so when I used to work in the office, I commuted in to do exactly what I am doing at home.
My civil service employer is very definitely planning on having WFH as a long term option. They have made modifications to the two offices and plan to allow some staff back in that need to for work purposes or personal (health / home environment) reasons. But after that they are talking about "hybrid" working and my personal preference would be to WFH ongoing and maybe have a couple of days in the office each month. However, that may change when the pendulum swings to a point that I feel that it may be detrimental WFH. If I start missing out on things "oh we got an update on that process in the office the other afternoon" or "anyone fancy hitting the pub after work" type of thing then that might convince me to head back. However the message currently, from the very top, is that WFH is definitely a long term plan.
I am not currently looking to climb the career ladder so my whole work/life balance just now is absolutely fantastic. I also work flexi-time so WFH means I can walk dog, hang the washing out, not need to worry if any tradesmen coming etc.
However, my son who is 22 and works for the Council has also been working from home since start of covid. He wants a career, he wants development and he is not getting either. He has no chance of being "recognised " at work, meeting folk from other departments round the coffee machine, hearing word of mouth about vacancies or anything like that.
So we are both WFH, we are working next door to each other but we bith have totally opposing views on the WFH principle!
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