Coronavirus

[Costanza]

I'm WFH until January so my employers certainly aren't listening to such advice.

[Bob's Orange]

I'm WFH until January so my employers certainly aren't listening to such advice.

same.

[Old_Town_Red]

same.

Same for me too...if not longer. It’s worked really well where I work

[horlock07]

Speaking to Office providing Clients they are lining up for a massive change in the market off the back of this.

[tans]

Hancocks such a prick

[Batch]

I'm WFH until January so my employers certainly aren't listening to such advice.

ditto! I can see my employer letting the lease lapse tbh

[horlock07]

Hancocks such a prick

[Sippo]

I'm WFH until January so my employers certainly aren't listening to such advice.

Barclays in London are thinking about ditching their £250k per week in Offices, and having more people hot desk to their local branch.

[Costanza]

same.

My employer (review in December and will extend beyond January if need be), my wifes employer (her office is going back no earlier than March!) and a couple of friends I was talking to all had dates of WFH confirmed within the same working week.

The same thing happened about 10 days before lockdown (being told to WFH in large numbers when the government were saying 'stay in the office, business as usual and high five as much as you want')

I do wonder whether the Civil Service or whatever issue some kind of advice behind-the-scenes.

[pauld]

This is fucking horrible: bereaved families of low-paid NHS workers who died from COVID will lose access to benefits if they get a payout under the govt compensation scheme to bereaved families. I hope this is just a lack of thinking things through, rather than deliberate, and that it can be corrected.

EDIT: having read the story more thoroughly it appears that not only is it deliberate, but govt is defending it as by design. Jesus.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/21/uk-families-bereaved-by-covid-19-lose-eligibility-for-welfare-benefits?CMP=share_btn_tw

[Chunkyhair]

This is fucking horrible: bereaved families of low-paid NHS workers who died from COVID will lose access to benefits if they get a payout under the govt compensation scheme to bereaved families. I hope this is just a lack of thinking things through, rather than deliberate, and that it can be corrected.

EDIT: having read the story more thoroughly it appears that not only is it deliberate, but govt is defending it as by design. Jesus.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/21/uk-families-bereaved-by-covid-19-lose-eligibility-for-welfare-benefits?CMP=share_btn_tw

Fucking hell.

Someone posted yesterday, I think, that surely they have run out of ways to fuck up any more.  It does seem inconceivable that such consistent and persistent fuck-uppery can occur, but credit to them, if they can find a way to fuck up, they will (even this - a really positive action to compensate families of NHS workers that they rightly got credit for is now turned on it's head as they seek to claw some of it back).  

They just don't think they think nor have an ounce of compassion - cunts.  Beyond contempt

[Batch]

hopefully they will make exceptions in this case

[joeydubya]

Sorry to be all tinfoil hat on a Friday lunchtime but between the three of them (Dom, Boris and Hancock) they don't behave like people who have been struck down with it. In the PM's case, we are told it nearly killed him... 

[pauld]

hopefully they will make exceptions in this case

That's what I thought Batch, actually I assumed it was an oversight, then I read this bit

"A House of Commons library note says: “The DWP has agreed with HM Treasury and the Department for Health and Social Care that these payments will not be disregarded. Therefore, if a recipient of a payment from this … scheme is on one of these benefits, it will fully be taken into account as capital.”"

and this bit

"A government spokesperson said: ... “It has always been one the central principles of Universal Credit that decisions on awarding the benefit should take into account individuals’ existing ability to meet their basic needs, so that we maintain our focus on supporting families in most need.”"

It's like they're going out of their way to be as nasty shits as possible

[Batch]

scum.

utter scum