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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 2287152" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>My daughter was sent home right at the beginning as she has asthma on her work medical records, even though it never bothers her and she hardly ever needs her inhalers. She was initially put on special leave with full pay. More recently she has been provided with a specially adapted laptop with inbuilt phone and her home workspace has been given the go ahead by a health and safety person. Her work was face to face, and involved tight data protection. She is now working from home on her normal hours and doing her normal job using the phone rather than face to face. This is a government department, and neither of us can see this arrangement ending any time soon. All the home workers have been given similar equipment, bought in specially. This must have cost a small fortune, and we are sure they won't want to waste their money scrapping it all. Apart from that, her office was small, and the staff desk-shared previously as most were part time in one way or another. Allowing home working has meant an end to the desk sharing, and poses less risk to those still attending the office. </p><p></p><p>As for saving money on lockdown, we are both over 70 and retired but have still saved a considerable amount of money by not having our frequent cottage holidays and breaks in the UK, and my husband not going to his local pub for his twice weekly games of darts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 2287152, member: 94045"] My daughter was sent home right at the beginning as she has asthma on her work medical records, even though it never bothers her and she hardly ever needs her inhalers. She was initially put on special leave with full pay. More recently she has been provided with a specially adapted laptop with inbuilt phone and her home workspace has been given the go ahead by a health and safety person. Her work was face to face, and involved tight data protection. She is now working from home on her normal hours and doing her normal job using the phone rather than face to face. This is a government department, and neither of us can see this arrangement ending any time soon. All the home workers have been given similar equipment, bought in specially. This must have cost a small fortune, and we are sure they won't want to waste their money scrapping it all. Apart from that, her office was small, and the staff desk-shared previously as most were part time in one way or another. Allowing home working has meant an end to the desk sharing, and poses less risk to those still attending the office. As for saving money on lockdown, we are both over 70 and retired but have still saved a considerable amount of money by not having our frequent cottage holidays and breaks in the UK, and my husband not going to his local pub for his twice weekly games of darts. [/QUOTE]
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