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Saturday 19 September 2020
Noelle Sloane went to Cash & Carry Kitchens to design her perfect space.
This week, our reader finds he’s not spending much daily as his workplace provides food. However, he says this week was a ‘low-spend’ week.
This week, our reader navigates the changing restrictions and find that money is harder to manage now that eating out is back on the table.
This week, our reader prepares to return to the classroom, topping up her income with some childminding in the meantime.
This week, our reader has friends to visit and is making an effort to support local business.
Noelle Sloane went to Cash & Carry Kitchens to design her perfect space.
This week, our reader is on a road a lot and also enjoying getting back out with his family after lockdown.
This week, our reader, who lives with her daughter in Galway and has an underlying health condition, details her spending and saving during the Covid-19 period.
This week, our reader has been spending lockdown working from home but is now starting to socialise with friends, prompting an increase in spending.
This week, our reader is living in her own apartment in the city centre and is working from home in a new job.
This week, our reader is busy programming for work and fun but manages his finances well during the lockdown.
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This week, our reader has been cocooning throughout the Covid-19 shutdown.
This week, our reader and her fiancé are busy renovating their home as they prepare for the birth of their first child. They are used to remote working.
This week, our reader is in County Clare with his wife and baby daughter. They’re managing through the lockdown, working from home and reuniting with family as lockdown eases.
This week, our reader is grateful she has various incomes for freelancing as it means she’s not reliant on just one job in a crisis.
This week, our reader details how he’s working from home and hanging out with flatmates, while also playing Football Manager.
This week, our reader finds she’s enjoying slowing down while staying at home during the shutdown, and is spending less.
Our reader this week details how she’s working from home through the lockdown.
This week, our reader works on a new job from home, while he and his partner get through the shutdown.
Our reader says he’s saving time on his journey now and saving money during the Covid-19 changes.
This week, our reader juggles work, parenting and looking after her wife, who is ill, during the Covid-19 shutdown.
This week, our young reader tries to close the purchase of a house while working from home during shutdown.
This week, our reader adjusts to life in Covid-19 lockdown and finds she’s spending a lot less.
This week, our reader details the week she spent in early March as Covid-19 became a public health issue in Ireland.
This week, our reader comes to terms with life in isolation on a small budget.
This week’s reader lives on the west coast of Sweden and owns an apartment with his girlfriend.
This week, our reader is a junior doctor saving to buy a house with her boyfriend.
This week, a student in UCC details a busy week studying, travelling and socialising.
This week, our reader explains how she and her husband bought their house in 2003 for over 500K, which caused them some hardship, but now they live a happy life of careful spending.
This week, our diary-keeper is a factory worker who was diagnosed with cancer. To supplement his reduced working hours, he receives social welfare payments.
This week, our reader is a primary teacher living in a mobile home with her new husband, in the hope of saving for a house.
This week, our reader shows how he manages to keep his spending down because he gets his meals at work.
This week, our reader details her spending while juggling work and a young family.
This week, our reader details her spending while on social welfare benefits after taking a year out to travel.
This week, our reader details her spending in the week before Christmas and realised just how expensive that holiday is.
The bank worker is paying back a loan and trying to curb spending.
The Kildare native is hoping to save for a new car and house renovations.
The 21-year-old business student is hoping to go on a J1 next summer.
The 26-year-old is hoping to get a mortgage next summer.
The Dublin engineer is trying to curb spending at Christmas as she saves for a mortgage.
The young engineer plays rugby in his spare time.
The young nurse is hoping to work extra shifts next year in order to start saving
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
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