[REQ] Natural Part-Timers by tony shepherd

[marr5]

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Interesting

Received the following email from Tony:

"I was browsing through my news feeds this morning (comes from all sources) and I came a across a really interesting story.

It seems that tens of thousands of staff will never return to full-time office work in the City of London under plans being drawn up by some of Britain's biggest companies.

(I predicted this in an email on June 7th this year)

If this is true for the UK it's also likely to happen in other countries


So for example audit giant PriceWaterhouseCoopers is preparing for '50% to 60% of its staff to work flexibly on a permanent basis after the Covid19 crisis passes'

Which means that around 13,000 staff could work some days from home and some days from in its London offices.

The story also reports that banks, insurers and financial giants are said to be drawing up similarly radical plans to shift to permanently increased home working.

For example HSBC, Barclays, JP Morgan and even the London Stock Exchange are also looking at making similar changes.

Other cities (internationally too) are expected to follow


What's my humble opinion on this?

All apart from changing the look and feel of city centres, it probably also means that loads of pubs, shops and service businesses will close or have to lose some of their staff.

But I think the real danger here is that if people are working from home, they can work from anywhere, so what is to stop big corporations hiring home workers from FAR CHEAPER locations around the world to do the same job?

If you think that isn't the case ask yourself which freelancer you hired when it came to creating that digital ebook cover you needed for your sales page, create that landing page or build that Amazon site you needed?

Was it some high-priced outsourcer from London or New York?

Or was it some highly-qualified graduate from Manila or China who did the work for half the price, spoke several languages and was equally as skilled?

The market decides who gets hired, not ethics.

Sadly, business is about looking after the bottom line not looking after workers.

I don't believe in doom and gloom scaremongering but I DO think it's prudent to watch what is happening with the world and hedge your bets.

Because if YOUR job can be done remotely you might be at risk.

Hopefully not, but it's always best to make plans while you still have choices.

Best

Tony"

[Mr. 20/4]

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[mthomas]

Another bump for this....

[mthomas]

Anyone have this yet?

[Mr. 20/4]

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[mthomas]

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[NoJob]

Would be nice to have this. Bump.
NoJob

[Mr. 20/4]

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[BlackTopHat]

Tony says price is going up for this.