The Case for Sleeping in (or at least near) the Office
Citigroup is investing £1BN into renovating its offices in Canary Wharf, the plan being to diversify the space to include gardens, shops and housing units.
The theory is to make the space more appealing to the staff who the company is mandating to come into the offices to work more often. It would, after all, make for a more pleasant work environment if you can easily nip out of the office to the shops, or for lunch, rather than the whole local environ being just more offices.
And I guess those earning more than six figures might be able to afford to rent one of those flats, meaning they could even pop-home for lunch, assuming the work culture allows for that!
Although it's a long way from.....
This good old tradition of the Cadbury Village...
I mean, come on, that's proper utopian right there, the female workers on a break from making Easter Eggs watching (presumably) their sons playing football (I guess their daughters would be licking poison off the streets or something.
But cynicism aside, this idea of employers providing a decent environment for their workers to live in has a long history in Britain (I'm also thinking about Robert Owen, maybe the first), and fair enough, I mean it's a win-win.
How far we (haven't come)...
So not so long ago the ideal was that employers provide enough of a renumeration package to meet at least basic human needs, but somewhere along the line we've lost that, now it's simply the case that for anyone working in the bottom 40% of income earners, you're possibly not going to earn enough to rent somewhere decent and pay the bills, unless you live miles away from where you work in many cases, then you have to pay a small fortune on commuting costs.
So it's good to see companies like Citigroup diversifying and making habitable spaces near offices, but I think we need to go a lot further!
Or just allow people to work from home!
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Ironically, the council officers who have been working from home are gagging to come to one of our cross-sector collaboration events held in our central London premises. They keep asking when is it going to happen, they are desperate to see other people and be anywhere but home.
Surely they get the option to come into the office..? Or is that a day they'll be paid for just chatting to people...? I
It appears some of them do not. I'm guessing cash-strapped councils are offloading buildings that are not fully-utilised. The day(s) they will be spending with us is working on housing alternatives for London.
It's like CA - more remote working!
It seems so many people can barely scrape by and don't get much life outside work. I see lots heading into London every day, but I just go 10 minutes on the train and leave them to it. I did the long commute for too long. You hear about factory workers in other countries living in dormitories and hardly seeing their families. They pay the price of us having cheap goods. In some ways the world is going backwards.
A 10 min commute is about right - I'm guessing more like 30 mins door to door? But that's an OK trip 2-3 times a week I think! Pretty much what I do ATM.
That London commuting looks brutal!
I enjoy your uploads, they often inspire me to vent my spleen!!!!!
It really is about time that this working from home nonsense was brought to an abrupt halt. The lifeblood of industry the blue collar workers the labourers and producers et al, must be really pissed off slaving away every day while others nonce it up at home in their oneseesies and slippers.
pre scamdemic, when i was a salary slave I had the option to be home based, with various "hot desks" available across Uk and europe. Turned it down. Nope no never, work is work, finger on the pulse, eyes and ears and all that. AND I made sure those in my team kept their sorry arses on the ground. The world of work, has IMHO gone soft. maybe my instilled generational work ethic, hard work never killed anyone, would not survive these days, in the land of the hand wringer and wokerist la la land of the personnel dept.
Port Sunlight on the wirral was another town built to house 'workers" this time the Lever family of soap and detergent fame undertook this philanthropist view.
I am now calm, thankyou
I'm pretty calm too - got the work lap on next to me, cup of tea in bed, pretty typical WFH day here!
I rest my case LOl LOl LOL
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