Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

Also I think Farage’s concern about wfh is more about his landlord mates than anything else.

I do not think you should ever be allowed to wfh for child care - unless the child is capable of entertaining themselves etc

Nigel Farage has so many lucrative irons in the fire I doubt he is in his Clacton constituency or Parliament very much. He's just pandering to a chunk of the Reform voting demographic that believes anyone who WFH isn't actually working.

I suspect there will be lots of redundancies in some sectors so plenty of room in the offices for those left

For me having the option to wfh is just as important to me as salary. Before I got my current role I turned down several that mandated 5 days in the office. I have to do three now which is one more than I would like but do enjoy some form of hybrid.

If I could get it down to fewer days I could move back to my home town which would be great!

Pp explained why disability is relevant here. It's not a derail, it's a relevant aspect of the topic.

Politics of misery and nonsense.

most local authorities do not have the space for staff to be in daily. And haven’t for nearly a decade. Lots of places don’t.

my entire company’s head office is run remotely. We don’t even have an office to return to. Clearly appeasing his donors

I think there is a huge problem with the current workforce when it comes to resilience and sickness.
I think that some people know how to abuse and play the system and others see this and copy as they get sick of having to pick up their slack

it does need addressing

however I do not think that working from
home and flexible working is the cause of this. I’m my opinion a flexible working actually rewards performance

Surely people can feel differently on this. I don’t think it’s the same. I think a mix is good so can see both sides but I don’t agree on this.

Managers are not enforcing this though. I know in my team its because many staff are underoccupied and so don't want to go in.

Here we have the reason why workers will be required to be onsite. Looming redundancies and cuts.

I mean, if you wanted to keep women with children out of the workplace and not competing with mediocre men for sought- after jobs, then I guess banning wfh would help...🤔

(see also disabled people)

Good point, same where I live.

It absolutely is the same. A conversation is a conversation.

Anecdote does not equal data.

This!

And also the constant assumptions that wfh-ers aren't really working, conveniently ignoring the amount of non-work chat that goes on in many offices.

The day anything useful comes out of Nigel Farage's mouth will be the day pigs fly. His opinions should be treated with the contempt they deserve.

I work in the public sector and WFH full time has a seriously detrimental effect on the ability to do the roles I do. Many people are really unhappy about it, but don't go in as no-one else does, so what's the point?

Hybrid is fine, but public sector employers really do need to require their staff to come in more frequently. Working in office two or three days a week is not unreasonable.

Managers are not enforcing this though. I know in my team its because many staff are underoccupied and so don't want to go in.

The thread is about WFH. Why do so many threads get derailed by disabled comments which is not the issue here.

It won't happen. Our council hot desk now. Departments have to book a slot.

Busy looking busy.

It's quite an effective strategy in an office. Less so WFH.

Because a lot of his voters don’t get to work from home. They are at the coalface with hands on roles, rather than in home offices watching their computer while popping a load of washing on.

I am home based, as is DH. It’s been great for us. It hasn’t been great for lots of people though.

I don’t think it’s Reform’s place to push that agenda though.

This is a culture wars strand that has been bubbling away for a while now. My dad - retired for over a decade now - gets really riled up and upset about the topic. It’s pure emotion, not based on knowledge of working from home either during the pandemic or after but on things he’s read in the Telegraph. We can’t talk about it now as it has actually led to some really nasty arguments.

The funny thing is he worked for an employer - big blue chip multinational - that was hybrid years before covid. He’s proud of having worked there too. Just doesn’t seem to think the plebs can be trusted.

My husband had a new young employee who started right around the beginning of covid. It was so hard for her, there was no one to show her the ropes at all, no one to see how she was getting on, no group projects, meetings were all on Zoom which is not the same. The poor girl was in an apartment by herself 9 hours a day fresh out of school having never worked at a job like that, or even in an office workplace environment, before.

A lot of these young workers had real struggles integrating into the workplaces when there was no one in the office.

1. Not sure what business it is of this prick to tell any business how to operate
2. I manage a £2m business perfectly well from home thank you

Habits can also be broken.

Also, the ones able-bodied could do onsite work but those who are disabled or limited mobility would struggle so what happens to them? How are they to survive?

Wfh is not that recent, it’s at least 50 years old.

Besides, it’s not going to stop the people who skivvy because they are likely going to do so regardless of where they work. That’s a personality issue, not a location issue.

We know.

My comment was in response to someone saying WFH was a recent trend.