Summary
Working from home is changing the way we think about where we base our life and careers, but how remote can we be from our business or office?
Can you live and work hundreds of miles away from your employer and what could that mean for your personal life and finances or for the company you work for?
Whether you’re an employee or an employer we’d love to hear from you, e-mail [email protected] now with your thoughts, questions and experiences.
Joining the conversation with presenter Felicity Hannah at 3pm on Wednesday 14 April are Neil Carberry, CEO at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and Jodie Hill, Director at employment law firm Thrive Law.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Diane Richardson Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this day, |
| 0:24.0 | who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the programme about your money. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, we're talking about remote working. |
| 0:42.7 | It's been said that we've not been working from home over the last year. |
| 0:45.8 | We've been at home in a crisis trying to work. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, that crisis is hopefully nearing its end, but almost a third of British employees are still working remotely. |
| 0:54.9 | And some of them want that to last even after the pandemic. |
| 0:58.0 | In today's program, we're looking at the future of remote work and whether it's going to be |
| 1:01.7 | much more common post-COVID. |
| 1:03.9 | Can you realistically live and work hundreds of miles away from your employer? |
| 1:08.1 | And what might that mean for your lifestyle, your career and your |
| 1:10.8 | finances? Kicking us off is James. James, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Now, you've |
| 1:16.8 | already made a significant move during the pandemic, haven't you? You've moved from the southeast of |
| 1:20.9 | England to Perthshire and Scotland. How did that come about? Well, I think that coming into |
| 1:27.0 | the pandemic, we were pretty badly affected as a family. |
| 1:33.3 | We had a small consulting business ourselves and we worked with a lot of hospitality businesses. |
| 1:38.3 | And of course, it doesn't take a, it doesn't take the juniors to know what's happened |
| 1:43.3 | in the hospitality sector. And it was |
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