Coronavirus

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I bet Liverpool will do the cringiest thing of lifting the trophy when fans are allowed back in, about 9 months down the line…

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Have to agree with Pep here.

Closed door games are an abomination, just postpone the league.

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Surely it dilutes some of the home advantage which kind of undoes the point of a home and away fixture?

If we play Spurs away in front of 60000 and then at home in front of 0 it’s not really fair.

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Yeah, it doesn’t make sense. At the very least you’d have to put a big asterisk over the league. Rather the players have to play some matches in summer.

We’re going to do just as bad bollocks for a world cup that was totally optional to be in Qatar, for Coronavirus might as well do it too.

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On this specific example I argue it’s very fair :grin:

But seriously, yes totally with you.

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I’ve just had an email from our top dog telling us to cancel all meetings, events and travel effective immediately.

This extends to private travel as well, though obviously they can’t quite enforce that.

But everything is getting shut down at my workplace, we’re only allowed conference calls now.

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All corporate tax and VAT has been removed for the next 3 months as a preemptive bailout package totalling £15bn.

Danish state is taking this very seriously.

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Rogan has a podcast out tonight with Michael Osterholm, he’s the director of infectious disease research at some institute. They’ll be talking all things related to COVID-19.

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Same here, WFH now practically being enforced on people at my company.

Could provoke an overdue sea change in culture imo, speaking as someone who works from home a lot

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WFH now too

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Are people generally more productive when they WFH? Or is it useful for a happier workforce?

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Just gonna chill tbh

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I’ve inherited the open a word document and stick my phone on the space bar quirk to stop the laptop locking out. Productivity levels peaked.

Thanks @SRCJJ :handshake:

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People are not more productive from home. Don’t buy that at all lol. Maybe one or two out of ten in general.

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Yeah my job just got even more chill if that’s even humanly possible.

The only annoying thing is im supposed to go on holiday to Copenhagen in 2 weeks time and then again to Lisbon in May and it looks like I’ll have to cancel them both which is a shame.

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I manage to be just as unproductive at work as I am at the office

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I just slob around eating pizza and playing play station tbh but I do feel happier so yeah it’s a good thing

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I can only offer anecdotal evidence, but the four people I manage are as productive or more productive when working from home. But they form part of a customer service team whose output is recorded every day, so they know that they’d get found out if they totally took the piss. So their productivity is sometimes actually better because they’ve got the comfort and freedom that comes with having complete control over their working environment for the two or three days out of five that they regularly work from home per week. Hopefully that remains the case when it’s five days a week working from home, as that’s where it looks like it’s headed.

My output across a working day can’t really be measured so I don’t have the threat of reprimand looming, but I keep up consistent levels of productivity, and sometimes can be more productive if I’ve got a big task that requires not being distracted by colleagues, which happens a lot in the office. But that’s just me, and my circumstances, because I work for a charity that I believe in and now care about a lot after a few years working there. If I worked in the private sector and wasn’t massively bothered about the company I worked for versus any other, I think I’d massively take the piss when working from home. I’m not innately motivated or hardworking lol

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One thing I’m quite sure of SD, is that my OA post count would go way down if I didn’t work for home, therefore I think it is quite fair and certain to say for the good of my productivity, and for the good of this forum, for that matter ( :crazy_face: :crazy_face: :unai: :kroenke: :bellend:), it is important to work remotely.

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