Labour If you claim you can work from home . Doing What Exactly?
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Remote jobs can be difficult to find and are often highly competitive, with many applicants for each position. In addition to your list, I would recommend checking Charity Jobs.
While it may not have the best filtering options, many charities do hire remote workers with a lot of remote roles being advertised.
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hope you are all ok
๐ Nightcity
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Couldnt think of anything worse stuck in some cramped office room rented out with white board member if staff not wanting to be there explaining this is A B C see completed out you go your master geniuses you can rule the world id be pretending to get air and id run like the wind all the home bolt the door and hide I've done it before I cant face people injustice basically people
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The last time I had to go to my job centre, was because they said we would lose our benefit if we did not attend. This women tried to get us all to sign up to a course which basically was a learn how to fill in a cv. She let slip she had worked at a local jail, at which point a Jamaican guy jumped up, and said she was a actual inmate, and a argument followed so I signed a attendance form, and left.
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Good evening @Nightcity ,
I like your dog!
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God last time I went to a job centre it was like the condemned everyone anxious uptight even the air could hardly breathe lots of feet jigging then they shout your name out legs trembling feel to crawl to the desk faced with some uptight individual who despises thier job or they get off on the power barking orders as you reply yes sir can I have some more oh god I'd rather go to hell than there sorry rant over
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My dog hates the fireworks so is quiet in her safe area. But she wakes me at 6am ready to go play.
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It's all fun and games at the joke club, lol.
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Indeed, working from home shifts workplace costs from the employer to the employee. Why doesn't the government compensate disabled people for this?
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I will just add context to this, that there is a bill currently in parliament, the Employment Rights Bill, which seeks to slightly strengthen reasonable adjustment requests.
Currently, as far as I am aware, an employer is under no legal requirement to inform you why they are refusing a reasonable adjustment such as working from home. The new law will now require an employer to state the exact reason for refusal and there are is a list in the legislation itself of acceptable reasons. Now, the reasons are incredibly broad, but it's better than what we have now when it comes to asking for adjustments.
I have a hope this might lead to more acceptance of work from home adjustments at least.
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Hi, thank you for the above - very informative. I'd like to add my experience of visiting Purple (who manage your direct payments for you when employing a personal assistant) to be trained in how to assist my daughter when doing the wages for her PA. We met with 2 people - one was the advisor (who was physically disabled) and her assistant. The assistant helped with maneouvering the advisor and bringing files etc. She also "ran errands" for the advisor and generally assisted with anything she wanted. This enabled the disabled person to be gainfully employed and her personal assistant to both be employed. I think this follows a similar system in Norway where you can have a "live-in" assistant who is paid for out of your benefits. If every person who was disabled in some way could have a suitable person to be their PA, wouldn't this help with unemployment and give the disabled person a better quality of life? Whilst working from home may be the "easier" way for many people, we were built for relationships and, as Jim outlined, you do have to have the mental capacity to work from home as you can become depressed by being isolated. It's also not that easy to get into gaming Jim, either game development or musically. My son, who is not disabled, has been trying for years despite having been to college to study game development. You have to have experience and a portfolio of work for many positions. Data processing is easier to get into but extremely repetitive which may suit some but not others.
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Someone offered me a WFH job many years ago.
They said "It's all done from home, you'll just have to travel to XXX once a month". Genuinely not realising that meant it wasn't all done from home! ๐
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i know i am now retired but working from home i can imagine the looks and remarks from the neighbours waking up to 1000 milking cows in our garden ๐คฃ
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After reading all theses posts seems to me the best thing is to tell them nowt ,dont even send a flicker of recognition when they mention home working ,unless you enjoy living with interigation as well as your disability , so glad ime to far over the hill to be forced to hunt for unicorn jobs
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I'll admit, my knowledge of farming is quite limited, but at least the commute can't be that long right @michael57 ๐ except maybe if you sell at markets I guess?
@OverlyAnxious I've seen jobs like that yeah, listed as "Remote" but then there's still some requirement to visit the office.
@Biblioklept Part of me is hoping this requirement to state exact reason for denial of reasonable adjustments is at least a first step, or with time tribunals will eventually find a line of what is and is not legally reasonable. It's a lot of hope I know.
@Daffodil94 I figured that it was an important bit of information to mention since it does seem to work in sync with this want to get more work from home job available for people who struggle to leave their home more. Covid showed us that there's the capability for it in many industries and roles.
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ah back in the day we would walk the cattle to market before we went to school nice walk of 5 miles at least got a job to even get the young'uns out of bed nowadays how times have changed
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haha i did have a yorkshire man boss once i will say no more ๐๏ธ
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