Although I understand not everyone is in the same boat due to childcare/financial reasons etc, I like the three office days, and I choose to do that.
However, my concern comes into play BECAUSE people are now being forced in 3 days a week. The Newcastle office space is not fit for purpose going into this new policy.
Parking spaces are already limited, as are desk spaces, coffee machines maybe work for 1 whole week of the year so when they don't, the queues for Starbucks are MEGA (not all employees have spare time to wait in these queues) .
The food is around 1 star on a good day, being served food that is cold in the middle and is a potential food poisoning risk doesn't give people much hope for eating in the office, which is good cause there isn't enough room anyways....but then again we have a HUGE choice of external catering...Greggs and Tescos and....or if I bring my own food in I can cram it into 1 of the 2 tiny fridges the whole office has to share.
We did used to have multiple canteens that served different food each day in the old office...we get the same thing and one choice of canteen every day, paninis, toasties, salad, chips, jacket potatoes, sandwiches (lots of carbs and bread you may notice) and here comes the exciting bit....2 choices of a hot dish...but don't go after 1pm cause they won't have any left ;)
And then there's leaving the office, I leave around 4/4:30....it takes me over an hour to get home due to the traffic within Silverlink...that's without all these extra employees now coming in, and the public transport links are diabolical and let's be honest far too unreliable.
