I'm not, I'm still home-based with the option to go to the office if I want or if there's a business need, which I've reverted back to typically 1 day a week as I was doing before COVID, mostly to get out of the house.
Fridays are only if it's useful to me, e.g. because I'm going somewhere via London after work.
Well that’s IT for you
and you mention that was your pattern before. It makes sense for many roles in that industry, of course, although interestingly my brother is in that field (web app developer) and he now seems to be back in three days per week.
As an arguably more reflective bellwether of your typical London commuter, a good friend of mine is a consultant at Accenture (at a middle to senior level, where she’s still delivery focussed but also managing other consultants, the partners are still mostly at home!) and she’s gone from fully at home, to 4/5 days per week at home, to being back in three days per week plus trips around the UK and into Europe once per week to visit clients. Namely all the stuff we were told wouldn’t come back.
She’s currently working on a promotion business case, and that’s a crucial point in the corporate arena; in a world where personal branding and presenteeism is key, working from home when your colleagues are in the office isn’t the way to get ahead.
and customers have not shown a willingness to go back to paying for that* yet. I actually quite miss that approach to office working, but the nature of the job now makes it difficult.
Again, it varies by industry. From what said consultant has said, some blue chips have a fairly old fashioned culture and expect attendance from those they engage, despite paying through the nose by the hour for it.
