MBL: Working From Home
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve replaced the buzz of the office with working at the kitchen table we’d love to hear how it's going. Have your work-life balance, your finances, career and productivity been affected? Does it make a difference to team working if you don't meet your colleagues face to face?
What responsibilities do employers and employees need to consider and is working from home the future, or are you desperate to get back to the office? What happens if you’re asked to return to your place of work but you’d like more flexibility?
Joining presenter Felicity Hannah to talk it over and discuss this changing world of work are:
Alison Loveday, Employment Partner, Kennedys Law Louise Goss, Founder and Editor, thehomeworker.com David D'Souza, The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
To join the debate e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk or tweet @moneybox now with your questions, views and ideas.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Diane Richardson Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:46.3 | Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. I'm Felicity Hannah and today we're talking about the finances of working from home. Back in March, |
| 0:50.8 | working from home felt like an emergency solution to a previously unimaginable |
| 0:54.9 | new problem. We took our laptops to our living rooms and tried to manage meetings around maths |
| 0:59.6 | lessons for the kids. Six months on, and it's clear many people will be working from home |
| 1:04.5 | at least part of the time until we're through the worst of the virus. So what does long-term |
| 1:09.4 | homeworking mean for you? And could it affect your position, |
| 1:12.2 | your pay and your prospects of promotion? Or are you being asked to return to the office and wondering |
| 1:16.8 | what your rights are? Let's go straight to the first question. Lewis has been in touch. Rather than |
| 1:22.9 | fighting for desk space in his busy shared flat, he moved hundreds of miles from his job to stay with his |
| 1:28.4 | parents and work, but now his employer wants him back in the building every other week. |
| 1:34.1 | My employer is beginning a phase return to work with a one week every fortnight rotation. I now |
| 1:39.2 | have to procure furniture and create a homeworking space in my bedroom because there's |
| 1:42.6 | nowhere else in my flat for me to |
| 1:44.7 | set that up and commuting from my family home to my office is out of the question. I approached my |
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