Re: Commuting
"Just wait for some boss or beancounter who wants to reduce your pay based on less travelling time because ' that was a consideration' in calculating your pay and now you are at home."
Consider increasing my salary due to rent of workspace in *my* home. Plus utilities and equipment including desk, chair etc. Yup - they're not considering that bit, are they?
After all, it's the Employer's responsibility to supply a suitable work environment, and equipment, including furnature.
Of course, then they may be responsible for work space assessments, so they have to have access to your house.
It's not as simple as people want it to be. Same for surveillance: So they can monitor you WFH. Okay, but only during work hours and only you - they can't record anyone else, so if your partner wanders past in the buff? They'd best not be recording that, had they? And if it's your kid who just had a bath and wandered into your work area? Oh dear - that's a big no-no. Yes, arguments over who is responsible etc, but they can't invade the privacy of others while monitoring you and if those others live in that house, then it's their rights being impinged upon, too.
Yes, extremes and so forth - but it's risks that need considering and is why some businesses backed away from pushing staff to WFH in the past. Covid has pushed in the other direction but those risks are still there - as several colleagues and a few managers have already found out to their embarrassment, and those were just on video meetings.