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My company has just announced everyone needs to be in the office 4 days a week from January. I've been doing 2 days for three years and built our whole family logistics around it.
The commute from Croydon to the City is over an hour each way. With after school club costs on top, I'm genuinely wondering if it's worth it. Anyone else facing this?
Same with my company. A lot of people are quietly looking for other jobs. I think some of these companies are going to lose a lot of experienced staff.
I think that might be the point for some of them, sadly.
Make a formal flexible working request. Even if they've said "everyone", they still have to consider individual requests properly. Being a parent with existing arrangements is a strong case.
I went part time in the end when mine changed. Less money, but my childcare costs dropped so much it was about the same.
Ask colleagues if they'd like to make requests too. If the company gets 30 requests they might rethink the blanket policy.
Put in a formal request for 3 days with early finish on one of them. Waiting to hear. Have also updated my CV just in case.
Update from my place: so many people put in requests that they've quietly said 'most teams' can stay at three days. Which is pretty much what Sienna predicted.
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