Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

It doesn't need government policy. I was just pointing out that wfh is not the answer for everyone and not a question of older people shafting younger ones. Different companies might want to do things in different ways.

What a twit he is. He should learn where his job is. Clacton & Westminster. More often seen in the US.

I totally agree. I’m clinging on by my fingers tips with this job as my condition deteriorates. Definitely agree not everyone’s at it, or capable of working.

But plenty of jobs aren’t wfh. Different jobs have different policies, rules, and ways of working. I wouldn’t take a full time in the office job and then complain it didn’t suit me.

Since WFH started you can’t get hold of anyone at call centres or customer service centres without a lengthy wait. Half the time no one answers the phone. Then there are those tedious messages saying the call volumes are higher than usual. Have you tried calling HMRC or the DVAL. When people sat in the office things were better as they weren’t loading the dishwasher when you rang.

Farage is objectively wrong about this, as he is about everything else. I pray to every god out there that he never gets near the levers of power.

That lazy twat lecturing others about productivity is a joke. He barely even knows where his own constituency is.

He lives in a fantasy world. Just assumes everyone that works from home doesn’t work hard. I work my arse off, work one or two days in the office a week and at home for the remainder of the time. I get more done at home as I’m likely to start earlier and finish later and will do more back to back meetings as you don’t have to physically move round an office or go from one work space to the other. It is 45 mins to an hour commute so on office days I can only manage 9-5.

He is a small minded little man

Don’t go looking for sense in their bullshit “plans”.

They also have a candidate who wants people without children to be taxed more (a “negative child benefit”), while simultaneously removing things like wfh which help mothers back into the workplace (not because they all have toddlers running around while they work before anyone says that, but because having no commute makes childcare easier).

Stupidity in some cases. I can't actually imagine myself ever being so desperate that I would ever vote for Farage.

My employer doesn’t have a UK office, the nearest ones for me are Spain and Poland which is a bit of a trek. I might be persuaded to go to the HQ in Miami occasionally though if the company pay my travel costs.

Does WFH reduce the overall environmental load of working overall ?

Has anyone studied this (and if not, what in fucks sake are scientists doing with their time ???)

I'd be guessing that WFH is a boon to net zero ambitions. And we know that Farage not only doesn't believe in climate change, but thinks a polluted country is a sign of success. (Once you see footage of cold war soviet countries, you can see where his nostalgia comes from).

That's great you've a sympathetic employer.
Not every disabled person is suited to WFH.
My DW has literacy issues and no digital skills and has worked as a cleaner for 42 years and due to her disabilities osteoarthritis,congenital leg condition,curvature of neck its getting harder.
Not everyone is at it.

Exactly.

I look forward to all the future Reform government spending on the civil service and local authority estate so that pubic sector workers actually have an actual desk to go to. I'm not holding my breath.

There are numerous jobs available which aren't WFH. So they have a choice.

As if that cunt has ever done a day's work in his life.

Farage …Don't give two fucks about anyone …full stop. Other than himself. He’s a worst shyster than that mendacious work shy Johnson. And still too many voters believe the lies. Desperation I suppose.

Govt quangos too.

It’s pretty hilarious coming for Nigel Farage, the biggest skiver in the UK. Almost never goes to Parliament or to his constituency where he’s paid to be by the taxpayer. Instead jetting about the place getting paid for other work on his employer’s (his constituents) time, or just having jollies.

Complaining that hotels don’t serve the right milk for him.

Add to that the fact that this is surely a question for individuals businesses and employers, not for the govt to dictate. I thought Nige and his ilk were against too much government interference?

Just appeals to those who want to see others’ lives made difficult, I think.

I'm old and retired and I am 100% for WFH especially for women with families.

That's for his company to work out though. Why does it need legislation or government interference? Sledgehammer to crack a nut.

I work for a LA. Approx 70% of our building has been sold off since Covid, so we couldn’t all work from the office even if we wanted to.

I thought Farage was supposed to be an ultra libertarian. This is the most authoritarian proposal I've ever heard of from any UK administration.

Fuck off fuck off and fuck off some more.

Another in the very long list of reasons not up hive Reform my vote

I disagree that it's the "pull up the ladder" generation.
My DS is an apprentice in a wfh job. He is finding it very difficult to learn when his entire team is remote. He would be much better in a face to face role where he can learn off others.

The people benefiting from wfh often tend to be very established in their careers.

Why is working from home even a problem? He is completely out of touch with real people’s lives and jobs.

If you work on a computer and have the internet, you don’t need to waste potentially hours per day getting ready and commuting. That time saved frees you up for parenting or whatever else you need it for. It’s none of the government’s business if this is working for companies and organisations.

Working from home enables people who live in remote areas, people with certain disabilities, and mothers an easier chance to work at all. People who he’d be complaining about being shirkers if they didn’t work.

No doubt if he had a proper job, he’d be a skiver who needs constant supervision, and to not understand the childcare benefits of saved time means he was a shit dad and husband who didn’t have anything to do with parenting his own children.