skybluetony176
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Pie in the sky tests too. Sorry that should be moonshot tests.
So is the long and short of it Boris waffled without actually saying anything and has left the country more confused than it was before his address to the nation.
IF jobs can be done as well and efficiently at home then why the clamour to return?Hopefully yes
IF jobs can be done as well and efficiently at home then why the clamour to return?
It’s not though is it? If you are a manual labourer with a long service in a company you’d be entitled to £16,000 plus 12 weeks pay tax free - companies would love it - ditch old people and get the state to pick up the tab
IF jobs can be done as well and efficiently at home then why the clamour to return?
You’re talking about right now? I don’t think UBI is a serious proposal for now.
God knows what you do right now. Extending furlough seems the only realistic idea if we think it’ll be over by a year or so. Maybe fund voluntary redundancy in some cases?
Whatever you do though people will lose their jobs and their industry likely won’t be hiring for a while. Of course redundancy payments should be made to them. I’m just saying in the future UBI would avoid this situation but would need an equal balance of loosening of regulation.
As someone who doesn’t work in that kind of industry why is it ridiculous? Just trying to understandWell for a start the service providers who provide transport and leisure and refreshment facilities - also I am I suspect one of a handful of people here who have worked at home for a large PLC and without some office presence it’s really ridiculous as a concept.
As someone who doesn’t work in that kind of industry why is it ridiculous? Just trying to understand
As someone who doesn’t work in that kind of industry why is it ridiculous? Just trying to understand
Well for a start the service providers who provide transport and leisure and refreshment facilities - also I am I suspect one of a handful of people here who have worked at home for a large PLC and without some office presence it’s really ridiculous as a concept.
I hate that c**tPeston asking if Christmas was cancelled was a belter. Use your platform well
Peston asking if Christmas was cancelled was a belter. Use your platform well
Work life balance has been one of the major reasons for teachers leaving the profession. Some schools and heads get it, some really do not. I know I can’t teach from home effectively and we need to be in school for as long as it remains safe to do so, but the lockdown has shown us that we don’t need to stay at school anymore after the kids go home. We can do meetings, training and all the other shite we have to from home now. The days of expecting teachers to hang around unnecessarily should be over.As someone who worked from home for the worlds biggest (at that time) company for a couple of years, I can tell you in my experience it’s absolutely no problem at all long as your colleagues are set up right too. There’s no issue. It’s ridiculous to clamour for returns to offices in the year 2020 in the midst of a huge pandemic, when the big buzzwords for years have been ‘work life balance’, ‘remote working’, ‘flexitime’ etc.
Work life balance has been one of the major reasons for teachers leaving the profession. Some schools and heads get it, some really do not. I know I can’t teach from home effectively and we need to be in school for as long as it remains safe to do so, but the lockdown has shown us that we don’t need to stay at school anymore after the kids go home. We can do meetings, training and all the other shite we have to from home now. The days of expecting teachers to hang around unnecessarily should be over.
I would have thought offices would be all over that stuff.
I'm sure the people saying everyone should head back to the office have the best intentions.It goes to show that all the talk before covid of companies wanting to really improve employee welfare was actually hot air. One minute you have corporations boasting about their latest innovation to improve employee wellbeing, but lethal virus all over the place? Fuck you, get your arses back in
To put that into perspective that's the same as the education budget for the UK, or over half the budget for the NHS.A briefing memo sent to the first minister and cabinet secretaries in Scotland, seen by The BMJ, says that the UK-wide Moonshot programme is expected to “cost over £100bn to deliver.” If achieved, the programme would allow testing of the entire UK population each week.
Already questions being raised about the reliance on the private sector and a lack of experts being involved.The leaked documents reveal a heavy reliance on the private sector to achieve the mass testing and give details of “letters of comfort” that have already been signed with companies to reach three million tests a day by December. Firms named are GSK for supplying tests, AstraZeneca for laboratory capacity, and Serco and G4S for logistics and warehousing.
Also sounds like there's going to be an app so you can show you have had a negative test. No problem there with the great track record on app development!Some of the technology it would require does not yet exist.
Surely they should all be self isolating for two weeks because of sneezy.
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It goes to show that all the talk before covid of companies wanting to really improve employee welfare was actually hot air. One minute you have corporations boasting about their latest innovation to improve employee wellbeing, but lethal virus all over the place? Fuck you, get your arses back in
I'm sure the people saying everyone should head back to the office have the best intentions.
Lord Alan Sugar tells 'complacent' office workers to 'get their a***s back now'
He’s declared working from home over.metro.co.uk Almost laughable how its always the market should dictate but then a blind panic to get everyone in the office when it looks like property developers and the likes of Pret & Starbucks might lose a few quid.Lord Sugar sees his office portfolio ‘suffering’ as staff stay at home
Lord Alan Sugar has said his central London property investments are "suffering" due to office workers staying home and City-based companies finding out they "don't need" pre-pandemic size premises.www.standard.co.uk
We've got something here that could among other things, massively improve peoples quality of life, reduce the strain on public transport, get cars off the road & improve the environment. Companies who have implemented similar prior to the pandemic report increased productivity and staff retention. Its an absolute no brainer yet the clamour is for everyone to get back to the office.
Seems details of Johnson's 'Operation Moonshoot' have been leaked. Have to say it reads more like another scheme to divert money to his mates than a serious proposal to get things back to some sort of normal.
To put that into perspective that's the same as the education budget for the UK, or over half the budget for the NHS.
Already questions being raised about the reliance on the private sector and a lack of experts being involved.
Also sounds like there's going to be an app so you can show you have had a negative test. No problem there with the great track record on app development!
Lets hope they can actually pull this off because at the moment its looking like it could be the only way we're getting back to anything approaching normal anytime soon.Covid-19: Government plans to spend £100bn on expanding testing to 10 million a day
The UK government has drawn up plans to carry out up to 10 million covid-19 tests a day by early next year as part of a huge £100bn (€110bn; $130bn) expansion of its national testing programme, documents seen by The BMJ show. The internal correspondence reveals that the government is prepared...www.bmj.com
Yep it’s crazy that people have considered it as a possibilityIt's pie in the sky. It'd be great if it were possible but logistically and financially it's a non-starter.
Add to his list of crackpot ideas like a bridge to Ireland, the Estuary airport, the garden bridge, bendibuses....
Or maybe there is...... Heathrow CEO: Fast-track 20-second COVID test - BusinessCloud
Yep it’s crazy that people have considered it as a possibility
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