So, what happened today?

[monkeybarry]

Played a netball tournament - first time I've played for a year.
Made the final - lost by one goal.
Went flying into a hard metal fence - lovely lump on my head

 

[Rorschach]

Do British voters know what the sensible thing to do is? You only need a European country, person, sports team or offical to offend our sensibilities and we're us and them again.

Yeah , that will always be the case in this political landscape. The politics of division has taken hold in the UK, and it is not going to go away anytime soon, especially with Farage on the scene.

In my opinion, the voters do know what the sensible thing is. They've looked at the last 10 years and, by a 2-to-1 margin, have concluded that Brexit was a horrendous mistake. Some of this is changing demographics, I would guess. Older Brexiters may have departed to the sunlit uplands in the sky, new voters are taking their place, but the economic fallout is no doubt the main driver.

I think one interesting side effect of Brexit has been the end of the Labour/Tory duopoly.

 

[Diamond Lights]

Working from home. Wow. what a treat.

My firm is 5 days in office but today had to WFH. Hit the gym and back to start by 9am.

Personally no way i could do this every day, i'd be bored out of my mind, but it's nice as a treat.

 

[revlis]

Working from home. Wow. what a treat.

My firm is 5 days in office but today had to WFH. Hit the gym and back to start by 9am.

Personally no way i could do this every day, i'd be bored out of my mind, but it's nice as a treat.

I work fully remote. It was a bit of a struggle at first but 6 years in I could never go back to an office again.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

I work fully remote. It was a bit of a struggle at first but 6 years in I could never go back to an office again.

I work from home every day, I love it, get to get more work done, make calls in private and not have people overhear and judge every call, work longer but have more free time without travel, save a fortune and if I need a day of people I get meetings in London and get to see humans.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Working from home. Wow. what a treat.

My firm is 5 days in office but today had to WFH. Hit the gym and back to start by 9am.

Personally no way i could do this every day, i'd be bored out of my mind, but it's nice as a treat.

Only way to work for me
It’s what you get used too and how your wired too

 

[Diamond Lights]

I work from home every day, I love it, get to get more work done, make calls in private and not have people overhear and judge every call, work longer but have more free time without travel, save a fortune and if I need a day of people I get meetings in London and get to see humans.

this is interesting, do you not miss the face to face frequent catch ups, coffee walks, post work beer?

Edit: Post work beers - a lot tougher to sort nowadays, deffo not as frequent.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

this is interesting, do you not miss the face to face frequent catch ups, coffee walks, post work beer?

Edit: Post work beers - a lot tougher to sort nowadays, deffo not as frequent.

I miss the face to face, but I dont miss the other stuff, I like the trade off. I work in a public facing industry so I get weeks like next week when I have 3 days out, including 2 lunches a dinner and a day at a conference, so the week after I will happy not seeing anyone.

I would never go back to working in London and an office. I did it for 20 years and I dont miss the rat race of it all.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

WFH works for some people but definitely not others.

Largely based around three factors, you're own personal character, you're work history previously and location ie where you live.

 

[harr1984]

I miss the face to face, but I dont miss the other stuff, I like the trade off. I work in a public facing industry so I get weeks like next week when I have 3 days out, including 2 lunches a dinner and a day at a conference, so the week after I will happy not seeing anyone.

I would never go back to working in London and an office. I did it for 20 years and I dont miss the rat race of it all.

I get it - I'm approaching 20 years working in the city. For the most part commuting from Essex but now live in West London. Was at my previous company when Covid hit and went into lockdown so wfh and loved it at first but after a while the novelty wore off and was happy when could go back to office - 3 days in office and 2 wfh was perfect.

Then left to a a Hamburg based bank where have to be in the office every day - I was concerned I'd hate going back to a full week in the office, but the people are great and love it. Ideally would have preferred at least 1 or 2 days wfh as helps with things like my gym sessions but no big deal - once you're back in the routine you forget about that wfh life....