One thing that would help me, employment wise, is flexible working.
I have a degree in Software Engineering, and have worked in the past as a Software Engineer, and you'd have thought that was an industry in which flexible working was the norm - after all there is very little need, most of the time, to go in to an office, and to be there from 9 to 5.30, every weekday.
And even when one was 'in the office' - why does one have to sit at a particular desk, in a particular part of the building, whether one finds that a comfortable and productive place to work or not?
Why can't such companies have hot-desks, and different areas to suit different peoples ways of working (e.g. 'quite areas', and areas with comfy seating, or cafe areas, or outdoors areas)?
Why can't such companies encourage tele-commuting, and flexible work hours?
All these things should be possible, particularly in the hi-tech industries, but more often than not companies are stuck in the 9-to-5 everyone-in-their-own-little-cubicle (even if those cubicles are open plan, they're still cubicles) model of office work.
One thing that would help me, employment wise, is flexible working.
I have a degree in Software Engineering, and have worked in the past as a Software Engineer, and you'd have thought that was an industry in which flexible working was the norm - after all there is very little need, most of the time, to go in to an office, and to be there from 9 to 5.30, every weekday.
And even when one was 'in the office' - why does one have to sit at a particular desk, in a particular part of the building, whether one finds that a comfortable and productive place to work or not?
Why can't such companies have hot-desks, and different areas to suit different peoples ways of working (e.g. 'quite areas', and areas with comfy seating, or cafe areas, or outdoors areas)?
Why can't such companies encourage tele-commuting, and flexible work hours?
All these things should be possible, particularly in the hi-tech industries, but more often than not companies are stuck in the 9-to-5 everyone-in-their-own-little-cubicle (even if those cubicles are open plan, they're still cubicles) model of office work.
