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Inquirer readers choose to work at home
INQUIRER READERS would prefer to work from home than work in an office, with the majority of respondents to our poll saying that they would sacrifice breathing conditioned air and crowding onto a train for the same amount of cash.
Although a quarter of respondents said that they would take a pay cut "to never commute again", 39 per cent said that they would prefer to work at home, but for the same amount of money.
A mix of half and half, less time in the office and a lower figure on their payslip, appealed to just 16 per cent, while a lucky nine per cent already work at home.
Interestingly, just 13 per cent went for the reason that we thought would be most popular, "I'd sell my boss to never have to enter another office".
According to some other research two out of every three IT workers in the UK fancies moving even further away from their current office and would love to work abroad.
The survey, which came to us from the IT Job Board, found that just 32 per cent of respondents either hadn't applied for a job over seas or had never thought about it.
Of those who already have one bag packed and waiting by their front door, 71 per cent said that the quality of jobs on offer was behind their plans, 68 per cent expected to earn more overseas, and 69 per cent looked forward to learning about new cultures - presumably from behind a desk.
"If this boils down to quality of the jobs on offer in the UK, or low salaries, then companies need to work hard to improve their offering, in order to attract and retain staff. At a time when we are suffering an IT skills shortage, we cannot afford to lose key talent," said Alex Farrell, managing director at The IT Job Board.
"The onus lies with business managers to develop and nurture their employees and to make the UK's IT job market an attractive one to work in." µ
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"Poll respondents want sofa time for the same money"
Dave, that's not what the poll questions said, you warped bat-fowling puttock. I'm used to The Inquirer twisting everyone else's words around. But their own?
I applied for work abroad in 2004, and promptly left the UK, returning only for short visits (since my family still live in Birmingham.)
But work abroad != work abroad. Going off to work in Germany is a totally different kettle of fish to, say, being told that your job has been moved to Manila - and that you can either move with it, or be made redundant.
Personally, I prefer working in an office - and a nice office, at that. I don't want to work in some shabby place that looks like it used to be some old pensioner's home. I personally commute 500 kilometres per day (Düsseldorf to Frankfurt), because I prefer that to having to say goodbye to my wife every Sunday, and only seeing her on the weekends.
Oh, and Pete, if you're unemployed for 6 months in London, you obviously don't have the skills. Go out and learn some, starting with a basic English refresher (all sentences and proper nouns - including names - begin with a capital letter.) If your missive on this board is any example of how you express yourself in written form, I'm not surprised you're unemployed.
We see the same trends in the U.S. as the UK. Given the price of gas more and more people are looking to work from home. The employers we polled and have spoken to, all said they are reviewing their policies around telecommuting.
Tamara
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I totally agree with you for all the reasons you posted above!! I'm 52 yrs, I've been in my job for 16 yrs and I hope to retire there.
INQ polls are garbage and they're a bad way to increase article count. Don't you have anything better to do, like maybe link to a top 10 list on V3?
I think you mean "choose," don't you?
I don't see how you can deduce that 'Inquirer readers chose to work at home' when there was no option for "I like going into the office; the people are great; the facilities are good; and it gets me out of the house". Unless you're counting people who didn't respond to the survey at all?
skills shortage mantra...
and yet here i am almost 6 months unemployed in london