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Do I have special rights as a young worker?

Ifac, Ireland’s farming, food and agribusiness specialist professional services firm, is advising Mayo farmers to be aware of their responsibilities when it comes to managing employees’ working time.

A third of white-collar Irish professionals have stated that they are ‘very likely’ to leave their job in the coming months, unless more understanding and assistance is directed toward personal matters which impact their work.

Researchers from the Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway and the Western Development Commission have revealed that almost one third of workers are willing to move to a new job to secure their remote working preferences.

It is hard to believe that we are just five or six weeks short of the second anniversary of when the vast majority of the country's employees were sent home and instructed to carry out their duties from their kitchen. This was often done through poor broadband with little notice. It was done at a time when employees had to share this poor broadband with schoolchildren who had been evacuated from their classrooms and forced to learn instead at the kitchen table.

It is hard to believe that we are just five or six weeks short of the second anniversary of when the vast majority of the country’s employees were sent home and instructed to carry out their duties from their kitchen. This was often done through poor broadband with little notice. It was done at a time when employees had to share this poor broadband with schoolchildren who had been evacuated from their classrooms and forced to learn instead at the kitchen table.

In the early days of the pandemic, it was not unusual for people to suggest that 'afterwards' things would not - could not - go back to the old normal.

Once again employers and employees throughout the country are being encouraged to work from home in order to stem the spread of COVID 19. However, 2022 should see the resumption of the staggered return to the office for the Irish workforce, and a survey from the newly rebranded Compliance Institute (formerly the Association of Compliance Officers of Ireland) has found that even when employees are free to return, a hybrid model is most likely to be adopted by the majority of employers.

While remote working is by no means a new concept, it has become the new norm for many over the past year and a half. From the moment the first lockdown turned kitchen tables into office desks and shortened commutes to mere steps, we have been donning waist-up fashion and Zooming into work mode from across the county, country and world.

A new six-part series showcasing life in the west of Ireland will be aired on TG4 starting on September 23.