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It feels a bit backwards that they won't let people in the office for compasionate reasons. Our guidance now is "you should only travel to office if necessary to perform a business critical activity or if you are struggling with working from home and you have had new approval from your manager".
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but they have a lot of junior staff with non-ideal home situations for whom the option of working from an office is helpful.
A lot of the people who go into the office are younger staff who live in a house share with 5 other people and who cannot face living/working in their bedrooms 100% of the time. I absolutely cannot blame them.
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I sympathise - potentially a similar situation here but I really hope not. I work for a university where until a few days ago there was a big push to start getting people back on campus on a rota system. I'd done a few days and was going to start going in two days a week from this week. As of Monday the rota system has been dropped for our directorate, but I'm hoping that the fact the building needs to stay open for students means that using the office will still be possible.
Other half - who has constant conference calls all day most days - has been going into the office three days a week, mostly because we have a one bed with no doors and it's difficult for me to work when he's here and has a day of back-to-back meetings. He was told yesterday the office is probably closing again. He's quite senior so is going to push back as hard as he can, not just for him/us but they have a lot of junior staff with non-ideal home situations for whom the option of working from an office is helpful.
To be honest the prospect of us both WFH full time all winter fills me with dread. It's not just the noise issue but being stuck in the flat all the time. At one point we were thinking of putting a door in so might need to revive that plan if so. We want to sell our flat and buy a house but we're not quite ready to get it on the market yet so that's months off.
Eventual house will have at least one dedicated office space for sure.