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Pipkin
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this is a long, thought provoking article with a lot of valid points that I would agree with (though behind a paywall). 'An eerie ghost town': will home working starve our city centres? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/an-eerie-ghost-town-will-home-working-starve-our-city-centres-39501883.html A couple of interesting snippets below:
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Pipkin
Liam Brady Joined: 07 May 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1969 |
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Not a positive sign and our reliance on the US MNCs for jobs here. Whilst they are still ‘committed’ to the Irish operations... it doesn’t mean the operations will indefinitely be carried out by an Irish-based workforce
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Deane
Liam Brady Joined: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 2925 |
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I would say a lot of companies will stick to remote working as opposed to paying City Centre rents. The issue is when its remote work you can of course be anywhere.
That means Google for example can have a small office in Dublin and employ people worldwide. Their employees will then be paying income tax in the countries that they live as opposed to the 8,000 currently paying income tax in Ireland. |
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Roberto Baggio
Robbie Keane UNBELIEVABLE JEFF Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Status: Online Points: 37150 |
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That'll result in many shops, cafe's, bars and other businesses in city centres going bust.
City Centre's will resemble boarded up ghost towns in some parts
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Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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I think companies will become more flexible with working from home but it won’t be everybody working from home 5 days a week. You need face to face contact and team collaboration etc Anybody who has offshore teams will tell you the difficulties with this. I can see the need for office space reducing as companies will allow more flexible working conditions. My company moved into a new smaller office (went from 5k to 3k) about 5 years ago and upgraded the infrastructure to allow flexible working - hot desks and everybody was encouraged to wfh 1/2 days a week. I can see more emphasis put on hiring the right people and probation periods. It’s more difficult to manage a team when people are wfh so you need to have more/better monitoring controls in place.
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Roberto Baggio
Robbie Keane UNBELIEVABLE JEFF Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Status: Online Points: 37150 |
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I've been back in the office since Friday and can say it has a lot more benefits to working from home.
A mix of some days at home and some in the office would be best |
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horsebox
Robbie Keane Born n bred in darndale. Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Online Points: 34721 |
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Would like to go back to the office for at least a couple of days a week.
Have a pain in me hoop with it now, although it has a lot of benefits too. Can't see myself allowed back any time in 2020. |
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When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
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Huggybeer
Liam Brady Joined: 29 Mar 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 1421 |
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Im hoping Revenue are getting red flags on this, already have lads gone home to European countries to work, still paying tax here, officially they can do that for 150 work days, then needs to pay tax in said country.
Allot of implications for companies, local pay rates, cost of living in different countries, essentially if i didnt have a kid in school i could work from a Greek island with good BB |
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Getting old and intolerant
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BrendanD88
Jack Charlton 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Online Points: 9964 |
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I've been in the office since the start but will be working from home one week and the office the next from next week. Would prefer to be WFH full time.
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sausy
Jack Charlton MAYO FOR SAM Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Location: The local Status: Offline Points: 6943 |
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Worked from home on Monday after being out on Sunday. Did fook all. Skype for business not working on the laptops anymore so they couldn't even see if I was on line. Very busy Tuesday and Wednesday making up for it but my job really doesn't suit WFH. Any day I have to do it basically just sending emails and making a few calls then catching up in the office the next day.
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