Boris Johnson orders civil servants to return to their desks by the end of next week
‘This headline is from the Daily Mail on 24/7/20. So….. I am a civil servant and currently working from home. How do I feel about this message?? Mixed feelings in all honesty.
I am working part time and could have retired last year however, I chose to work longer mainly because of the cancer. Strange I know however, because I was off work for so long and fairly ill into the bargain, I realised that retirement was not for me at the moment. I missed the social aspect of work and also the routine. I was very glad to be back. And so now we have the corona virus. Obviously because of the cancer and my age I was told to go home the week before lockdown (much to my anger I think it was!!) Why me? I was fine. What did they know? Anyway, I wasn’t given the choice. So, home I was from the beginning of March. By the following week we were in lockdown!!! I must say at the beginning it was scary but now??? Some of it feels like a distant dream and we are now being asked to go back to our desks to help the economy.
I do quite like working from home, however, I have some days when I find it hard to ‘knuckle down’ as it was. Other days I’m fine. From my office we have the most ‘vulnerable’ people in our work area so about ¾ of us are working from home. I think, for me, I am nearly ready to go back and I am going to try 1 day per week to start as we have been given a wide variety of how we manage it. I think it will mainly be the fact that I will have to get up earlier and leave the house and travel to work!! Haven’t done that for such a long time!! I will let you know how I get on.
I do agree though that we need to get the economy moving and this pandemic has been devastating for a lot of businesses and I think we do all need to support them wherever we can.
What do you think? Is Boris right to get us back to work or is the pandemic still very much a high threat? I would be interested in your views and thoughts.
Silverknitter 