Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

don't be fooled by the pint of beer & fags, the one of the boys image he tries to promote....... Farage has NEVER been on the side of the working class. Don't forget he is Dulwich educated & the only thing wrong with that is his denial & efforts to look working class.

He is a Trump disciple & will be looking to make as much money as for himself & his cronies. Nothing he says now means anything - given the chance he will do what is best for him

He's playing to his crowd.
He only has to give them some vague notion (he's in the charmed position of not having to explain intricacies, he only has to play to prejudices/ignorance) that prohibiting WFH will make it easier to claim their benefits/get daily or weekly GP appointments.
The shtick will be that getting through to the DWP, the local authority, GP's etc will be far easier if staff are in the office.

Your mates' commercial property investments suffering Nige? Offer something tangible to small shops and businesses and that might change. Otherwise it's just Old Man's Blather.

Is this for real?
Farage is on the side of himself and his fellow multi millionaires. The only use working (and middle) classes have to him is to earn him and his mates cash - though currently he’s obviously touting for votes from them too.
I appreciate there may be less cleaners needed if buildings aren’t required but there are also many, many working class people wfh on minimum wage on such as admin or call agents - some, particularly those with care responsibilities and/or disabilities will no longer be able to work if they have to go in at set times and no flexibility. Also it will disproportionately affect lower paid (aka working class) people to pay to travel in - Farage cares for neither cleaners or wfh working class.

To be honest, the fact that Farage keeps banging on about this, instead of other, more pressing issues, just makes me feel that Reform are not a political party to take seriously.

Working from home is giving people with children flexibility to work. For example, I'm a teacher. I've no flexibility. My husband who works from home takes the kids to school and picks them up 2 days a wk (grandparents do some of the pick ups). If he had to go back to the office life would be a lot more difficult and expensive. More childcare costs and he would pay a fortune in parking and petrol. He is very productive working from home and the kids don't have to go to an unknown childminders house at 7am every morning. He said he gets much more done as people in the office are constantly interrupting him. If he needs to take an hour out during the day, he makes up for it in the evening. As long as the work is being done and the company is happy with the output and the work force is happy why on earth would you change it. Not to mention worsening traffic congestion, and a rise in pollution that will effect us who do have to commute.

That will be because they are working from home 😀

I would like to see him (and others) call for MP's to actually attend Parliament. I have just looked on BBC Parliament and there are about a dozen MPs and a dog in the chamber.

Some really nasty ageist shit all over this thread.

I am trying to find my way out, I assure you

It’s utterly ridiculous and clutching at straws. Shows a total lack of understanding of the modern work place and proof they only care about working everyone to death to benefit millionaires. My company office is almost 5 hours away and I tend to go in once a month to see my team. I have a productive team who work incredibly hard but I also don’t care if someone drops off to do the school run etc. Everyone benefits - most importantly the company benefits as retention is high and we’re not constantly having to recruit very technical and rare roles. Frankly they have been able to hire an incredibly skilled team from across the country that wouldn’t been found locally or they couldn’t afford if they enforced office attendance.

It is nonsense. We need to get more people back to work (and off benefits) - not create barriers to it. There are many people with health issues which may mean working in an office is not possible but work from home is.

The economy requires more taxpayers paying into the system. If someone is financially independent and not claiming benefits, it is not the role of the state to determine how they work. That is between employer and employee.

Farage is a fraud.
He will manipulate and screw the ordinary man/ person with lies to line his and his chum's pockets.
Divide and rule is the game this imbecile plays.

Pots and kettles, where does he work? His parliamentary attendance is awful, and his constituency surgery support poor. You must remember this man, allegedly now holder of a German passport, has never had a proper job in his life.

Farage has always been on the side of the working class at the expense of the middle/upper classes.

He is not 'on the side of the working class'. He is exploiting the working class to gain power. Brexit didn't help the working class. Privatising the NHS won't help the working class. Scapegoating foreigners won't help the working class. What Farage really wants is low taxes, low regulation, and high profits for him and his mates.

Shovelling public tax money into private bank accounts is what Reform, and their alma mater the Tories have made an entire political philosophy from.

Of course the middle class like wfh but it screws the hospitality sector that is mainly staffed by working class.

@Zebedee999 how so? Spending has moved to local high streets because the people who buy coffee will still buy it. As @Peridoteage says today’s young don’t spend the same on alcohol/pubs and have less disposable income due to housing costs

Never mind businesses, this would cost the government a fortune in extra office space. My partner is a civil servant and they currently work from home 50% of the time because there isn't enough office space for them all to be in the office at the same time.

Farage would say literally anything to provoke a headline / a debate on MN/X/Threads and the rest simply to keep his face, his "party" and his personal brand current. It's how he makes his money.

It's not, I repeat NOT because he holds the view, or has any view at all other than to be contrary for the sake of it. Trump does exactly the same thing, as does Boris Johnson, that shit literally argued for and against Brexit to sell his poxy newspaper column.

Please stop feeding the machine. Farage would simply die off for lack of interest if we ignored him.

In the same way that there is office based work, and badly done office based work,there is also wfh and badly done wfh.

Our guys went to the union when we tried to enforce it. I always put my camera on. We have people say they are dressed / make up done. Well get ready for work same as you would if coming in.

Theres a whole sweep of white men his age who are very invested in city centre commercial property values and also over attribute declines in some industries to wfh. Eg

• less footfall in pubs/bars: its more because young people don't drink! They are at the gym/hyrox/spin classes instead.
• less spending in eateries: its because young people spend a greater proportion of their money on rent, tax and student loan contributions than their predecessors, they can't afford to eat out.
• reduction in train usage: its become too expensive relative to wages, and younger people are environmentally conscious. All my young colleagues cycle to work rather than spend using buses and tubes.

Farage is short sighted. As a 40 yr old woman with kids, my friends and I all work far more hours than the women who came years before us, because wfh has faciliated this around family responsibilities including encouraging men to take their share of pick ups/drop offs. Cut wfh and we'll all have to reduce our hours - watch the burgeoning private equity backed childcare sector sink like a stone.

People working in the office really help the working class out who fill all the catering/building management/cleaning rolls.

Of course the middle class like wfh but it screws the hospitality sector that is mainly staffed by working class.

Farage has always been on the side of the working class at the expense of the middle/upper classes.

I’m not sure what my comment has to do with that other thread?
I’ve been trained as an entry level up through wfh, there’s managers that are often in drop in rooms, I have had dedicated mentors, so so much contact time etc. I’ve also had friends in office jobs that have had that, I’ve also had friends in office jobs, who have had none of that, they don’t get the drop in moments or mentorship, they get ignored by the higher ups. The in office fanatics don’t seem to realise that is not a solves all solution? I said it comes down to the company both wfh and in person. In office does not automatically mean training and mentoring and the opportunity for that will be available nor does it mean it’s automatically not available in wfh

Lol.

The overwhelming majority of Amazon and Boots workers can't WFH and are low paid.

If they have an issue with their senior over-paid staff needing to be back in the office, that's an issue with the organisation itself and not indicative of WFH failing.

Stuart Rose is 76 years old who first started his work in retail in 1972, benefitting from becoming a multi-millionaire in retail and being given a peerage on the backs of low-paid workers.

He's not who we should be listening to when it comes to what is beneficial for society or individuals other than himself and his other multi-millionaire cronies.