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Originally posted by ConorMac77 ConorMac77 wrote:

Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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If you're working in a department like treasury ops (in banking) you will have multiple screens. Now you may have U.S. financial cable stations like Bloomberg taking up two of the screens but a lot of them will be various in-house systems that are constantly monitored. Some will be set up for alerts when there is high priority trade or trade issue taking place. 

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Originally posted by ConorMac77 ConorMac77 wrote:

Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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If you're working in a department like treasury ops (in banking) you will have multiple screens. Now you may have U.S. financial cable stations like Bloomberg taking up two of the screens but a lot of them will be various in-house systems that are constantly monitored. Some will be set up for alerts when there is high priority trade or trade issue taking place. 
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Originally posted by ConorMac77 ConorMac77 wrote:

Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
What the fook do ye need 8 screens for? LOL

2 Equities Risk systems, 1 Rates/ FX risk system, 2 spreadsheets, 2 Bloomberg and one for mails chats. 

Seeing the same with Andy on the hours. Averaging 13 hour days at the min Monday to Friday. Hopefully can get that back down.
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I'm a full 12 months working from home. I haven't met a single person from my office face to face in that time. There have been six new starters since March last year and if they were plastered across every news channel for murder, I wouldn't have a clue who they were!

Really missing the social aspect of the office the last few months. I'm at home on my own most of the day since the misses went back to school (she's a teacher btw!) and it does get a bit lonely. 

In saying that, I see myself splitting my work week between the house and office post Covid. I was commuting 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. It was only when I stopped I realised how mental that was
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Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

What is killing me about WFH is that everyone else in my company is the same and it really makes a cumulative difference that a lot of people are still sending emails at half 6 and 7 at night whereas in the past they would be shutting down at half 5 and making the commute home. So even if you choose not to work late yourself the night before, you are still coming into a lot more emails the next day, which take time to answer and you only have enough hours in the day and it all builds up.

A lot more people working over the weekend too.

I would say the leaders in my company have probably got comfortable with the productivity they are getting from people during covid I wonder what it will be like when it goes back to normal. Will they have gotten so comfortable that they are expecting the same level of productivity that people are still feeling under pressure to put similar hours in too. 
I think it will be a tough transition back
can you not call/text them and tell them to f**k off with the out of hour emails?

Not really. I'm in a global role so get mails from around the world anyway, it's just people are spending a lot more time sending mails and ultimately creating more work to go around. When everyone is doing the same, it's just a build up for everyone. Everyone I talk to is in a similar boat too, its not just me. 
The official line from the company would be to still work your normal hours and take your breaks and holidays but the volume of work to get through it's been getting harder and harder to even take a half hour lunch.

They even brought in this thing where scheduling a half hour meeting in outlook's, the times slot would only be 25 minutes and for a 1 hour meeting it would be 50 minutes to allow time between meetings, but that has gone out the window too, everyone using the Full time so having to to go back to back to back in calls most days. Its a bloody killer at the moment. The missus the same in her job too. Thank god the kid went back to school today, at least that was something!

That's standard that mails come in at all hours.  I have sent and recieved mails at 3 am in the morning.   Just because its sent at that time doesnt mean it has to he replied to straight away.  You only see the mail when you log in anyway. 

Texts out of hours are bad form though.  With mails you can just not log in and if you have pull notifications rather than push notifications on your phone it doeant make a difference.


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Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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Originally posted by 9fingers 9fingers wrote:

Originally posted by Sham157 Sham157 wrote:

Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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Originally posted by Sham157 Sham157 wrote:

Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

What is killing me about WFH is that everyone else in my company is the same and it really makes a cumulative difference that a lot of people are still sending emails at half 6 and 7 at night whereas in the past they would be shutting down at half 5 and making the commute home. So even if you choose not to work late yourself the night before, you are still coming into a lot more emails the next day, which take time to answer and you only have enough hours in the day and it all builds up.

A lot more people working over the weekend too.

I would say the leaders in my company have probably got comfortable with the productivity they are getting from people during covid I wonder what it will be like when it goes back to normal. Will they have gotten so comfortable that they are expecting the same level of productivity that people are still feeling under pressure to put similar hours in too. 
I think it will be a tough transition back
can you not call/text them and tell them to f**k off with the out of hour emails?

Not really. I'm in a global role so get mails from around the world anyway, it's just people are spending a lot more time sending mails and ultimately creating more work to go around. When everyone is doing the same, it's just a build up for everyone. Everyone I talk to is in a similar boat too, its not just me. 
The official line from the company would be to still work your normal hours and take your breaks and holidays but the volume of work to get through it's been getting harder and harder to even take a half hour lunch.

They even brought in this thing where scheduling a half hour meeting in outlook's, the times slot would only be 25 minutes and for a 1 hour meeting it would be 50 minutes to allow time between meetings, but that has gone out the window too, everyone using the Full time so having to to go back to back to back in calls most days. Its a bloody killer at the moment. The missus the same in her job too. Thank god the kid went back to school today, at least that was something!


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Originally posted by Sham157 Sham157 wrote:

Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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Originally posted by AntrimMan AntrimMan wrote:

Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok.

In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment!
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Originally posted by irishmufc irishmufc wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

What is killing me about WFH is that everyone else in my company is the same and it really makes a cumulative difference that a lot of people are still sending emails at half 6 and 7 at night whereas in the past they would be shutting down at half 5 and making the commute home. So even if you choose not to work late yourself the night before, you are still coming into a lot more emails the next day, which take time to answer and you only have enough hours in the day and it all builds up.

A lot more people working over the weekend too.

I would say the leaders in my company have probably got comfortable with the productivity they are getting from people during covid I wonder what it will be like when it goes back to normal. Will they have gotten so comfortable that they are expecting the same level of productivity that people are still feeling under pressure to put similar hours in too. 
I think it will be a tough transition back

Good post. 

I'm working a lot more hours since WFH. I'll log in a couple of hours earlier in the morning if it means it gives me a better chance of finishing at 5. I'd rather do the extra hours in the morning than the evening. 

I don't know if my productivity is necessarily up as I'm working off a laptop screen where I'd have two monitors in work and that makes a huge difference. It's a pain in the whole when you have constantly flip between different systems and outlook on the one screen. 

Cant wait to get back to the office tbh. 

One of the main reasons of why I get a lot less done at home 
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Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

What is killing me about WFH is that everyone else in my company is the same and it really makes a cumulative difference that a lot of people are still sending emails at half 6 and 7 at night whereas in the past they would be shutting down at half 5 and making the commute home. So even if you choose not to work late yourself the night before, you are still coming into a lot more emails the next day, which take time to answer and you only have enough hours in the day and it all builds up.

A lot more people working over the weekend too.

I would say the leaders in my company have probably got comfortable with the productivity they are getting from people during covid I wonder what it will be like when it goes back to normal. Will they have gotten so comfortable that they are expecting the same level of productivity that people are still feeling under pressure to put similar hours in too. 
I think it will be a tough transition back

Good post. 

I'm working a lot more hours since WFH. I'll log in a couple of hours earlier in the morning if it means it gives me a better chance of finishing at 5. I'd rather do the extra hours in the morning than the evening. 

I don't know if my productivity is necessarily up as I'm working off a laptop screen where I'd have two monitors in work and that makes a huge difference. It's a pain in the whole when you have constantly flip between different systems and outlook on the one screen. 

Cant wait to get back to the office tbh. 


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Originally posted by BigStrongMan BigStrongMan wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

What is killing me about WFH is that everyone else in my company is the same and it really makes a cumulative difference that a lot of people are still sending emails at half 6 and 7 at night whereas in the past they would be shutting down at half 5 and making the commute home. So even if you choose not to work late yourself the night before, you are still coming into a lot more emails the next day, which take time to answer and you only have enough hours in the day and it all builds up.

A lot more people working over the weekend too.

I would say the leaders in my company have probably got comfortable with the productivity they are getting from people during covid I wonder what it will be like when it goes back to normal. Will they have gotten so comfortable that they are expecting the same level of productivity that people are still feeling under pressure to put similar hours in too. 
I think it will be a tough transition back
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Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

What is killing me about WFH is that everyone else in my company is the same and it really makes a cumulative difference that a lot of people are still sending emails at half 6 and 7 at night whereas in the past they would be shutting down at half 5 and making the commute home. So even if you choose not to work late yourself the night before, you are still coming into a lot more emails the next day, which take time to answer and you only have enough hours in the day and it all builds up.

A lot more people working over the weekend too.

I would say the leaders in my company have probably got comfortable with the productivity they are getting from people during covid I wonder what it will be like when it goes back to normal. Will they have gotten so comfortable that they are expecting the same level of productivity that people are still feeling under pressure to put similar hours in too. 
I think it will be a tough transition back
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