Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

He might be scared of actually winning the next election. Didn't Sunak start jabbering about conscription when he wanted to be set free to go and enjoy his riches without responsibility?

Jacob Rees-Mogg and his one man campaign comes to mind.

What there should be about wfh is a point where a certain level becomes an implied term of your employment contract, so at least you would be given a significant period of notice before being asked to be in the office a lot more.

Actually I think this is the more worrying bit of what he’s saying: He argues we need an “attitudinal change to hard work” rather than focusing on work-life balance.
He wants people working more and more hours with fewer and fewer rights - hence wanting to leave the ECHR. WFH is just one aspect.

And DWP.

Last May reform advertised 9 jobs in their office for remote workers

That is actually hilarious.

Has he never read Animal Farm?

We shouldn’t be listening to a work Farage says anyway. I didn’t vote for him. He’s not my leader. He has zero relevance to my life.

Which office does he work in?

This is a GREAT IDEA to just get loads more people claiming disability benefits because they can't work full time in an office. Genius.

I think WFH works for some roles/people and not for others. It needs to be assessed on an individual basis depending on those factors and monitored to ensure it works.

Working in an office is often far less productive. I work much more efficiently at home, although do benefit from the odd day in for training and relationship building.

Maybe they are talking about public sector jobs specifically. Which actually may have been more flexible pre-covid, before wfh became so political with rubbish like this.

I’m not who you’re replying to but I’m young(ish) and hate wfh, it’s definitely impacted my mental health negatively. I have an office to go into but there’s no benefit to me going in if there’s nobody else there!

Hopefully it means HMRC and DVLA

I have worked in an office, full time, and worked from home, full time, as well as doing a mixture of both. Depending on the project, I would say a mixture was the most productive in terms of management and organisation. I appreciate the combination is not possible for many jobs, but there were, in the past, other ways of compensating for this, such as flex-time.
Having worked for someone, who was only happy with "bums on seats" I can say that this was the most unproductive period, which was underlined, when I returned to that department briefly and saw that NOTHING had progressed in the interim 6 to 7 years!
If you are managing correctly, with clear goals, deadlines, regular team and stakeholder meetings, regular progress reporting etc., it should not matter whether you can see your team/colleagues in person.
If you are not managing correctly it makes no difference whether people are physically present or not.
There is no "one size fits all".

I wouldn’t be able to work for my current employer if they weren’t fully WFH. They got rid of their nearest office to me during covid, but it was still too far away for me to travel to every day. I also work harder in this job than I have in any other one.
I wish Nigel Farage would just go away.

Telephone?
Teams?

You can still speak to people when not working in the office. For years, well before wfh was normalised I had managers in different countries and time zones to myself and we managed.
Although I am hybrid so still have office hours.

Our local councillors most certainly are as thick as pigshit.

He's learnt from his hero Trump that soundbites work really well with a certain sector of the voting public.

That work-shy toad lecturing others on the meaning of hard work 😆

This is such a MN trope - I have noticed no difference at all post covid and certainly never heard someone loading their dishwasher in the background.

Where is it stated wfh has impacted young people’s mental health?

And what is stopping them going into the office more frequently if they wish?

I work in the public sector and believe me, WFH doesn't increase shirking.

The shirkers can just as easily shirk when office based; always did and will continue to do so because shirkers and shirkers.

WFH could actually IMO reduce shirking because those people can no longer use the excuse that they did very little at work because they were caught up in important networking or case discussions or 'peer supervision'. AKA chatting for hours.

I hear anecdotally some the financial institutions are already strongly pulling people back into the trad office workplace. Bank of America in London being one example. So it’s happening in some sectors regardless. Canary Wharf also seems much busier in the week recently.

You are very naive if you think the NHS does not waste money, hand over fist, I say that as an NHS supplier!
Your role, admittedly can probably be better done from home these days, now that your images are in digital form you can probably, I would think, perform better reviewing images in comfort with a nice cuppa that sat in the department - but I'm guessing its a rare specialism that can do that!

We dont even have an office anymore

Well we are hybrid so there's still office days. Plus we can ask any questions on teams and someone will answer.

Someone who’s now benefited from something taking it away