Return of Supporters

I also strongly suspect that working from home for white collar jobs will become far more normalised. Along with Zoom meetings. What the last seven months have shown is that it can be done on a large scale. People I know were very reticent about it at first, but they've got used to it.
 
I also strongly suspect that working from home for white collar jobs will become far more normalised. Along with Zoom meetings. What the last seven months have shown is that it can be done on a large scale. People I know were very reticent about it at first, but they've got used to it.
I’m not 100% convinced by it to be honest. We have 6 office staff, 4 who are working from home and 2 who are in the office. The ones in the office are being treated like lackeys by the ones who are not. “Can you open the post and scan me my bits” “Can you print this that and the other for me” “Can you post this for me”

If I had my way they would all be back at least on a rota as I think some are starting to take the piss to be honest.

I have also noticed a huge drop off in service standards from some of the companies we use (FTSE100 size) and I’m sure all the staff are convincing their managers that they are more productive and the CEO thinks everything is hunky dory. If he/she knew the perception from their clients, I’m not sure they would then agree.
 
I also strongly suspect that working from home for white collar jobs will become far more normalised. Along with Zoom meetings. What the last seven months have shown is that it can be done on a large scale. People I know were very reticent about it at first, but they've got used to it.
Apologies for long post but I’ve been lucky enough to work from home all the way through the current situation, my employer gearing up very quickly to a different way of working and now accept this as normal.

As mentioned elsewhere, automation has progressed at a rate never expected but this has brought with it accompanying redundancies, all in the name of keeping things going. We have had the return to split working 2 days in office 3 at home but this is now changing to 1 day or in some cases full home working again.

Personally I’m ok as I am still working but others are not so fortunate and have to try and start again. It maybe that this is now the new normal and that we will never have a return to what we knew. I know I miss the matchday more than ever and cannot get used to the televised and sanitised tv nonsense we get. The football being part of a day out with your mates with beer and the associated nonsense I miss it more than I thought but the question is how many will risk everything they still have at this point in time.

I for one am not willing to risk everything at this point still missing it and will renew when it’s safe to do so.
 
Working from home must kill other businesses too? The sandwich bars, coffee shops, pubs. I’d often get my haircut near my office but now I’m able to use my local barbers. They’re cheaper and far more amiable too!
 
No chance for this season
Maybe the start of next season
 
Covid won't be temporary, it will be with us for years, we will learn to live with it and have treatments to keep it in check.

The devastation to the economy, however, is catastrophic and will leave us in a financial black hole that will take decades to recover from.

We have not even began to feel its impact or the jobs that will never be recovered.

Sadly, automation has also been accelerated 15 years in the last six months and there is no going back.

Much as the enthusiasm and popularity for football will obviously remain, Marv, there will be more pressing needs for how money is being spent.

Case in point, my successful business of 28 years is in the toilet because of trickle down economics, through no fault of my own.

That is four season tickets I can't afford to renew next year.

I've gone from £70k a year to £70 a week and there will be millions of people far worse off than me in the months and years to come.

And I work in football!!

The game is brutally damaged.
Wow. Sorry to hear that.
 
Covid won't be temporary, it will be with us for years, we will learn to live with it and have treatments to keep it in check.

The devastation to the economy, however, is catastrophic and will leave us in a financial black hole that will take decades to recover from.

We have not even began to feel its impact or the jobs that will never be recovered.

Sadly, automation has also been accelerated 15 years in the last six months and there is no going back.

Much as the enthusiasm and popularity for football will obviously remain, Marv, there will be more pressing needs for how money is being spent.

Case in point, my successful business of 28 years is in the toilet because of trickle down economics, through no fault of my own.

That is four season tickets I can't afford to renew next year.

I've gone from £70k a year to £70 a week and there will be millions of people far worse off than me in the months and years to come.

And I work in football!!

The game is brutally damaged.
You are well placed to assess the damage to football but there are 10 vaccines in late stage clinical trials. Their initial trials showed vaccinations generated antibody titres greater than those seen in recovered patients, and the early trial results showed that they were effective in preventing infection.
 
You are well placed to assess the damage to football but there are 10 vaccines in late stage clinical trials. Their initial trials showed vaccinations generated antibody titres greater than those seen in recovered patients, and the early trial results showed that they were effective in preventing infection.
That is obviously encouraging to hear.

I also have friends who are doctors who have access to various data and are seemingly quite dismissive of a one jab fits all cure, asserting it will be a seasonal virus we will all have to accept living with.

I have another pal who works at AstraZeneca and they charter fly him down to Cambridge from Manchester three days a week with some other black belt types.

He says the current vaccine in development in a two-jab roll-out, which will need to be taken within a month of each other (imagine the bandwidth issues just for this) and this will only provide a certain amount of protection for about six to seven months.

With regards the damage to football, obviously I have felt the huge impact of media companies having ad revenues fall through the floor, no leisure or travel outfits are taking up advertising.

It's just trickle down economics for my own take on how the game will be directly impacted.

I took a business bounce back loan a few months back but I won't be in a position to pay it back and the ONS admitted yesterday the government is going to be on the hook for about £40bn in defaults when the repayments are due to start next April.

That is just the tip of the economic iceberg and even football will have to live within a new reality.
 

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