Originally posted by scooterscot
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More productive at home for the simple reason I'm not spending half the day in meetings at the client's site but rather instead at home getting on with the job. Besides I'm usually paid on deliverables rather than by the hour.
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Makes no difference to me. I can do sod all equally well in either location.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostAren't you the guy who is running away from the UK pre-Brexit, cause you can't stand it here any longer?
I certainly wouldn't call it running away.
In fact Brexit or no Brexit makes no difference to me, I had always planned to go and try my luck elsewhere.
Anyone that has known me for a long time will vouch for that.
However, I'm always a gun for hire, so I can still be bought providing the price is right to make me change my plans.
I actually refused it to start with, nothing definite yet either.
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostIt can also depend on the connectivity to client wrt speed as well as what you're doing. Documentation is better done from home with fewer interruptions but there is the danger of cabin fever setting in.
even if it is just the local dive bar for chicken in a basket!
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It can also depend on the connectivity to client wrt speed as well as what you're doing. Documentation is better done from home with fewer interruptions but there is the danger of cabin fever setting in.
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My experience of different client managers to this issue can be roughly summed up as:
IT manager: I don't want people working from home because they are only 70% productive as office based workers (the OP's experience);
FM manager: I don't want people working from home because they are 100% unproductive as office based workers;
Procurement manager: By all means work from home a couple of days a week - but make sure your laptop is always on (so we can send you the 7am or 11pm email );
Marketing manager: Do your tech work in the office, your blue sky thinking at home;
HR manager: Don't bother coming in Mondays or Fridays - none of your stakeholders come in on those days (best gig ever);
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostDo you think its something about you, personality or body odor?
In reality they fired all the contractors and consultants who were sat around me.
I'm not known as the "last man standing" here for nothing.
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