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Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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Delbhoy
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by Delbhoy »

with all these options going and wondering how it can be completed with double mail. I reckon commit to deliver will come back to the table, if/when pay negotiations start in earnest.
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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Delbhoy wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 16:26
with all these options going and wondering how it can be completed with double mail. I reckon commit to deliver will come back to the table, if/when pay negotiations start in earnest.
It is
A2B
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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GaryLawler wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 16:33
Delbhoy wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 16:26
with all these options going and wondering how it can be completed with double mail. I reckon commit to deliver will come back to the table, if/when pay negotiations start in earnest.
It is
Please tell us more :crazy:
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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Our revision comes in, in a few weeks. We’re being moved to 4.5 hour delivery spans. God knows how we’ll do when the new delivery model comes in. 5.5, 6, 6.5 hours? What happens to the 6 hour per day part timers? Little twiddling on the computer perhaps, don’t worry, this 6 .5 hour delivery is exactly the same as it was, but the computer now says it takes 4.5 hours. Why do you keep cutting off? Conduct code for you.
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by Pidleypoo »

GaryLawler wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 16:33
Delbhoy wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 16:26
with all these options going and wondering how it can be completed with double mail. I reckon commit to deliver will come back to the table, if/when pay negotiations start in earnest.
It is
It isn’t.
yubin282
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by yubin282 »

For a company that's been around for 500 years they sure do make a pigs ear out of something so simple.
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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Delbhoy wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 16:26
with all these options going and wondering how it can be completed with double mail. I reckon commit to deliver will come back to the table, if/when pay negotiations start in earnest.
Is that even legal?
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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pinstripe wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 17:06
Our revision comes in, in a few weeks. We’re being moved to 4.5 hour delivery spans. God knows how we’ll do when the new delivery model comes in. 5.5, 6, 6.5 hours? What happens to the 6 hour per day part timers? Little twiddling on the computer perhaps, don’t worry, this 6 .5 hour delivery is exactly the same as it was, but the computer now says it takes 4.5 hours. Why do you keep cutting off? Conduct code for you.
4.5 hour spans sounds good! :chuckle
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by darkgable »

From what i have seen in my Do , The new duty structures , there are 3 different options . But 2 off the duty structures you have a later start time , Which will mean a later finish time also. and also a longer duty span . i cant remeber exactly, but if my office went for the one in six duty plan . which is what we currently do. The start time remain about the same. i think on monday and tuesday we actually start earlier than present. i think its a 7.15 am start . But from what i can remember the other 2 duty structures has the office starting at 8.30. I really hope we keep the 1 in 6 The other duty structures look terrible . just to get an extra day off
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by chickenwittle »

Been on the 9 day fortnight for years , I personally think that’s the best of all options .
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by JKSmudge »

yubin282 wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 17:48
For a company that's been around for 500 years they sure do make a pigs ear out of something so simple.
They always seem to go about making the most complex/convoluted way about things.

Guarantee these changes will take place in the autumn just as things are ramping up. They never learn. :arrrghhh

Will be working my hours, taking my breaks and let it all come crashing down. Let the box tickers sort out the consequences.
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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chickenwittle wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 18:54
Been on the 9 day fortnight for years , I personally think that’s the best of all options .
How many hours per day do you currently work?
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

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A2B wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 19:22
chickenwittle wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 18:54
Been on the 9 day fortnight for years , I personally think that’s the best of all options .
How many hours per day do you currently work?
Do different hours on different days but same starting times every day , Wednesday/ Thursday longest days but only by half hour.
A2B
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by A2B »

Going by the rota on the other thread Monday to Friday will be 8.28hrs with 7hrs for Saturday for a 9 day fortnight, seems like a long day to me.

Am I right in thinking the whole office has to change to whatever rota is voted in or is this for the pilot offices?
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Re: Which part of the new delivery model is supposed to reduce fatigue?

Post by Mr Rush »

Crowseer wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 10:26
Once the ink has dried he is going to say the business is unsustainable in its current form and jobs will go.
Valentina@1 wrote:
05 Mar 2025, 11:46
This sounds like a complete mess
These plans, if one can call them that, will result in an operation so completely scattershot that it is begging DK and the board to cut through the crap by edict sooner or later.

Yet again I am forced to ponder whether the leadership of this company has ever heard the phrase "keep it simple, stupid" or if this is another Art of the Deal play to demand the moon and the stars up front before finally getting that free cheeseburger they wanted all along.
The machine stops.