Is working from home here to stay and how do you make a career leap?
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
But what about the future of the office? Will we ever go back full-time, or is a hybrid model more likely – and if you're tempted by a shed office, what should you look out for?
On this week's podcast, Lee Boyce and Georgie Frost discuss the future of work and the pros and cons of WFH life, including the 'shoffice.'
Elsewhere, should you claim home working tax relief and how much could you get for doing so?
And what can you do if you want to change career, whether that is a huge leap or a 'bridging' one.
Plus, are workers heading for a horrible shock when it comes to retirement and what can be done to navigate it?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast. I'm Georgie Frost and alongside me today is Assistant Editor Lee Boyce. |
| 0:06.0 | And as we prepare to take another big step towards freedom, i.e. taming our hair, buying clothes we can actually wear in public and getting pissed in the cold, we look at the future of work. |
| 0:16.4 | Will we ever go back to the office full time or is working from home or the shed here to stay? |
| 0:22.7 | We talk about the rise of shopfaces, how to claim homeworking tax relief and give you tips on changing careers if you just can't face doing your old job wherever it might be. |
| 0:32.6 | Plus, we help you shockproof your retirement, whatever career you choose. |
| 0:36.7 | Don't forget you step to date. |
| 0:37.8 | With all the latest breaking money news, just go to this ismoney.com. |
| 0:40.8 | com. |
| 0:41.1 | Or download the app. |
| 0:43.4 | But first, as many businesses ready themselves to welcome staff and customers back from Monday, |
| 0:49.1 | we're talking about the future of work today. |
| 0:51.8 | Spotify, IBM, BP, Phoenix Group, Lloyds, among a growing |
| 0:56.0 | list of companies where working from home, at least in part, looks set to continue beyond lockdown. |
| 1:02.1 | Now, the impact is being felt on our lives, our wallets and our homes with thousands of us, |
| 1:07.1 | choosing to quit the cities for good life in the country or by the sea or convert our sheds, |
| 1:12.9 | our garages and our spare rooms into offices. |
| 1:15.7 | Have we been a little bit too premature or is this here to stay? |
| 1:20.3 | Lee, very warm welcome. |
| 1:22.6 | Morning, Georgie. |
| 1:23.7 | How has working from home worked for you? |
| 1:29.3 | And what is the plan for this is money? Well, look, we're in, what, month 13 now of working from home, which feels quite a |
| 1:34.3 | bonkers statement. |
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