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[Mutrix Farmers]

It's a long story and I'll try to be brief. My employer is joining together with 3 others in the East Kent area to provide joint HR and Payroll services to over 3000 staff. My part of the job (Payroll) is going to be done by another company based at West Malling near Maidstone. I have been told I could transfer to the new complany but that means a two hour drive to work every day and a significant pay cut. Alternatively there might be a job for me at the new offices (to be based in Dover - a mere 30 minutes drive) as part of the new joint HR team.

 

What do I do? Look for another payroll job closer to home? Hang on to see if the HR job materialises down at Dover (we won't know what the jobs are until a project team makes some decisions and that won't be until Feb at the earliest)? Asked to be redeployed by my existing employer? Take redundancy?

 

The anxiety of the whole situation is quite horrible. I earn good money now and only live 10 minutes from work. I've seen a couple of payroll jobs locally in Canterbury (1/2 hours drive) but they are for much less than I earn now.

 

What makes it even better is that I am on the project team to buy a new HR/Payroll system and install it for the new company. Do all the hard work and not be guaranteed a job at the end of it!

 

Apologies for all the geographical references, I know they won't mean much to many of you.

 

What would you do?

[Willow]

Poor you - job uncertainty is horrible.

 

If I was you I wouldn't take the 2 hr commute even without the pay cut. I would also try and diversify away from pure payroll. In addition payroll is a very easy process to out source overseas where it can be done larger scale and more cheaply.

 

The Dover job sounds the best bet from what you've described. Can you hold on where you are and get redundancy if that happens ? It is well worth getting a redundancy package (as long as it's better than the minimum) to put aside as some security.

[poachedegg]

A 2hr commute? That does sound like it would be a chore day in day out.

[Tessa the Duchess]

A 2 hour commute to work presumably means a 2 hour commute back home If possible, I would put my own free time over more money any day, but I understand that it is not always possible. I agree the Dover job sounds the best option, but I would also start looking locally and try and get some redundancy pay. Good luck it will work out in the end.

 

Tessa

[chickenanne]

I would wait to see about the Dover job, and in the meantime look about: if you find the ideal thing, great, take it, if not then wait for either Dover or redundancy. After all it's mod-Nov now, that gives you at least 3 months to gauge the situation.

 

a 30 minute commute will be nothing after hte first couple of weeks, but 2 hours sounds ludicrous for a job that isn't even goign to be paying you that well!

[cordelia]

I would stick it out....as you've been told jobs may materialise..

 

my firm is currently offering voluntary redundancy...and i was told I was at risk of it, and put on a "bench"....so I know its a horrible situation to be in...

 

mine is more complicated because i came back from maternity leave

joy...

 

 

hope yours works out better...

[Redwing]

I guess it depends on when this is effective from, we have just had a similar restructuring at work and our staff had the chance to transfer to the new job (in your case the one two hours away) on a 30 day trial period and still take the redundancy if they didnt like the commute. If these changes comes in to effect in Jan this would tide you over to Feb when they make the decision about the Dover job.

 

As someone who until recently had been commuting 6 hours a day (my own choice as I didn't want to stay in a hotel) a long commute isn't something I would recommend long term unless you are provided with shorter working hours, a company car and a reasonable salary.

 

Good luck with the decision making

[Mutrix Farmers]

thankyou to everyone. You've helped confirm the decision I had come to without realising - wait to see what the Dover job is but keep looking locally at the same time without rushing into something unsuitable in the long term.

 

I knew I could rely on fellow hen-watchers for some sound advice.