Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

Anyone who doesn’t work from home, isn’t really working in the office either.

I have a colleague at the same level as me, we jointly manage a team. He is in the office at 7.30 - 6.00 every day. I do the vast majority of management tasks, on top of all my project work. I have 5 projects, he doesn’t even have one. He is frequently “too busy” to do anything he is asked. My boss asked us to do exactly the same thing for two projects last week. It was basically collation of information that already existed. It took me less than an hour. He didn’t manage to get it done within the day. I ended up doing his too. Productivity isn’t just about tracking time, it’s about tracking output. My boss is under no illusions that I am way more productive, despite WFH.

A lot can change in three years and hopefully it does.
Britain has issues but Britain isn't broken and social issues ,crime etc didn't just spring up in the last 18months.

It’s really none of his business.

My company brought most people back into the office more a while ago. And leadership are now running round tearing their hair out going “but WHY is overtime down?? How can we get it back up??”

Oh I don’t know. Maybe people were doing overtime in the 2 hours they’re now spending commuting. Just a guess.

Total client hours are down since more office days were enforced.

(I’m off work today at a hospital appointment, in case anyone thinks I’m an example of a home worker not working!!)

MPs are most productive working for their constituents, how many surgeries has he held?

I think he's got a point actually. WFH is perfectly fine in many roles, but it's been disastrous in others. Since so much of the desk based workforce has moved to WFH or hybrid, there is no doubt in my mind at all that overall productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction has taken an absolute nose dive. Especially in public services and banking.

Like other PP, I can't imagine why he would think this has anything to do with the national government. It's a very silly 'when I'm king of the world I'll make all my pet peeves illegal' kind of thing to say. Fine if you're being knowingly flippant but come on...

I think a lot of it is bitterness that they couldn't do it.

But also because they believe that everyone not being supervised every minute of the day must be taking the piss and that's what they're angry about.

Someone getting something for nothing whether it be asylum seekers, benefit claimants, people WFH.

And they have valid concerns in some areas but they extrapolate it to everyone doing something to take the piss, get something for nothing and drain the system.

And see those people as very different to when they themselves claim benefits for example.

Bit rich coming from a professional grifter

Personally, I think Nigel Farage is a load of nonsense.

Can I just remind posters that Farage and Reform are our next government.

So probably best be careful what you write. Remember the fiercer the freedom warrior, the thinner the skin.

(I bet this thread never appears in the MailOnline 😀)

I read a theory that suggested that the majority of people who want an end to work from home are male senior managers who like being in the office and having people defer to them and see them as senior. Whereas at home they are just Nigel and they need to muck in with the laundry.

So essentially if work from home ends it will be because of the fragile male ego ruining stuff for the rest of us once more.

I'm in a LA. I already struggle to find a desk on my office days and my employer is looking at further reductions in office space to save money.

I genuinely hate that man. For many reasons. But this adds fuel. Such a loathsome individual with no redeeming features.

Farage would like to see all employment rights ripped up and thrown away.

As he's in no position to do that he just stirs the pot with throwaway comments like that. Nasty little man.

just trying to appeal to the daily telegraph/daily mail readers

I wonder how much commercial real estate he and his friends have?

Call centre workers productivity is heavily tracked. Likewise anyone with billable hours.

The issue is more around public and private sector workers whose productivity is not tracked using systems.

They are the ones where wfh can lead to shirking from home

Reform wouldn't see me for dust if they get in, I'll go and work in any country that will have me as with my skills and experience I can work anywhere. So that's £30k of tax gone a year. Imagine that multiplied by many other high earning professionals who spend at least some of their time working from home. Good luck with the economy. As the saying goes, will the last person to leave the UK please turn the lights out?

I've worked from home as a freelancer for 8 years now and I work my fucking arse off.

Anyone who says people shouldn't work from home can fuck off

I'm not paying for petrol or parking every day, or lunch everyday. I get to spend my lunchtime walking my dog, so I get to get fresh air, improve my MH, save money (which I then spend in my village).

Farage hasn't got a clue. He failed to do any work as an MEP. He has held ZERO constituency surgeries in Clacton. He's repeatedly skipped PMQs every week. Does he realise that 10 downing street is a work from home job? Fucking grifting hypocrite

He thinks it will be popular with people in jobs that can't be done from home. But like with most of his 'policies' what he's blustering about doing and what he could actually make happen are two very different things.
Even in a dystopia that saw him as PM, he would only be able to excercise control over the public sector. Businesses would remain free to structure their operations as they saw fit. And provided they continued to see the benefits in home working for their staff, Farage's views would just be more of his noise.

How do you possibly know this is because of WFH?

Have you considered it’s just because these organisations want to save money by employing as few people to do these jobs as they can get away with?

HMRC a great example - it’s not like you can just opt out of their services.

I don’t think the issue with call centres is WFH. People who work for them are pretty tied to their desks as I understand it.

It’s the fact that call centres aren’t employing enough people. Not the fact anyone is loading the dishwasher.

Calls are still tracked. People are still expected to pick up. Call centres don’t just let their staff sit at home not answering the phone.
Wait times are higher everywhere (including in person call centres) because companies have got rid of staff and put a permanent “sorry for the wait, we’re having an unusually high volume of calls right now” message on.

I don’t care what Farage thinks but companies are pushing for more people to go back to the office and they are not doing it because they are dinosaurs, they are doing it because productivity is down.

I strongly believe in hybrid working but that doesn’t mean wfh all the time unless it’s what the company wants

Yes I think women are more able to recognise how much better it is for creating work-life balance (having struggled without this option in the past).

And I don’t mean all older people - my parents and in-laws all think it’s a great thing.