Do you want it, sir?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Apparently, 62 percent of Brits want it. Unfortunately, 75 percent of us are not going to get it. Some 17 percent have said that they feel ill equipped to do it. Meanwhile, 46 percent are doing something else when they should be doing it. 10 percent of us even confess to watching the telly instead of doing it. An embarrassingly large 42 percent of women admit to doing the washing instead of doing it.
12 percent of Brits are doing it on a regular basis however.
Working from home, that is.
According to a Plantronics survey of office workers, working from home is something that a decent majority of us would love to do and firmly believe would lead to increased productivity and job satisfaction. The problem is that, even in this increasingly connected world, employers remain largely opposed to the idea it would seem.
I was surprised at how many thought that they did not have access to the right kit to enable home working though, unless that 17 percent who argued that they were ‘poorly equipped’ and their employers ‘reluctant’ to help are in some bizarre line of office work such as, err, actually I cannot think of any standard office work role that could not be done at home using a laptop and a bog-standard broadband connection to be honest.
Just for the record, I have been doing it for nearly 20 years now. For the past 14 years I have been doing it with my wife. I do it while browsing the web mainly, although I have been known to do it while watching the sheep grazing in the lower field, and hope to be able to continue doing it for many years to come…
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Loading ...Comment by Fotis - October 2, 2008 on 12:21 pm
You lucky bastard!
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