Serious lack of forward planning there. And from legal firms as well??
Top top law firms. Their standard contracts I suppose.
No doubt the world has changed. Personally I’ll be happy to get back to the office more regularly, I enjoy the cycle to work and I like to finish work and have a clear separation between work and the rest of my life.
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Depends on the company. I know mine, even pre Covid, actively monitors IP addresses due to paranoia about tax implications.
Our place is only allowing two weeks working abroad per annum following tax advice.
A girl I know has been quietly let go after spending the last 21 months working from Greece. Don’t know how she kept it up for that long 
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Jaysus. Hopefully was worth it for her overall.
Think she had a personal reason to be there so if she got snared so be it.
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Sure what’s the issue if they’d no idea? Is it the tax thing?
Yeah I think so. She didn’t go into the ins and outs but just said they’d finally copped on to it.
Do they not have an IT department where she works ??
Need to get a new computer monitor, anyone able to reccomend something? Also can you get hdmi splitter that can hook up 2 screens to the laptop? I’m looking online & I’m not sure what i should be getting.
I’d say most solicitors could readily do their jobs remotely tbf
260k?
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In or around d I suppose fagan
Back next week🙌 only for a day or 2 but it’s a start…looking forward to my extra sleep on the train already. Looks like we’ll ramp up a bit more after St Patrick’s weekend.
Yeah I think there will be a big expectation gap there between employers and employees. Lot of life has happened between now and then. Some people have relocated or may have had 2 kids in the intervening period. One fella I know spent a large sum of money on a timberframe garden work office and he has been told to come back. My circumstances of working at kitchen table listening to cocmelon nursery rhymes some days mean I will be happy to go back 2 or 3 days a week. Promotions and everything like that stalled in my place a bit so with more visibility maybe there will be more opportunities.
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Cocomelon lasted all of 4 minutes in this house before I handed it a lifetime ban. We’re on a diet of Cúla 4 in the morning and CBeebies in the evening at the moment.
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And yet loads of they argued for and got an exemption from wfh rules and most/many of them kept their employees coming in all through
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The youngest is like a crack addict for Cocomelon. If she’s having a canipition just stick it on and it’s aaaaaalllllll good.
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