Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

Experienced it and read and spoken about it.

Where have you seen that?

Is that you Nigel?

You know, for someone who is so worried about workers, Farage seems more concerned for their poor employers.

For someone who is so worried about women, Farage seems to spent a lot of time concerned for the menfolk.

I think I am spotting a pattern.

Well parents shouldn’t be looking after young children while working. I think the requests are more coming from parents who can avoid the wraparound childcare before/after school, which they would need to pay for if they had to commute to and from work.

If a parent is using their lunch break for the school run and then logging on for the last 2 hours with an older child in the house, I don’t think that’s an issue.

I would say WFH does seem to be implemented at a higher rate due to flexible working requests by parents of young children who want to avoid paying for childcare.

This is detrimental to all other employees and causes resentment which ultimately Increases poor company morale. No doubt a sentiment not shared on mumsnet.

It is just a load of shit he is peddling to get support from working class manual workers. That's the opinion many of them have as they don't see office work as actual work and think people are skiving off at home. If the working class fully understood what Reform stand for Reform wouldn't have their support, so they throw out these slogans to get them on board.

Whose ?

Honestly, it's clear (a) nobody ever watched this, and (b) those that did clearly didn't understand it

(Nigel Farage is very much a tobacconist )

Seems you are well placed for the future then.

It certainly did not improve the EBITDA 😂

Garage can fuck off. I can't take any politicians seriously. They are full of shit and have zero interest in protecting the public. Yet they stick their noses into issues that are none of their business.

Well said. Some politicians should be forced to stay at home. Their presence us nauseating and detrimental to public safety.

My output is better when I work from home. I don't get distracted by crappy office banter that goes on all day. I don't have to listen to the office weirdo going on about his dating antics. I can focus properly on my job. I love it.

If he does, it will apply to public sector workers. Reform seem to hate us.

Unfortunately I’m starting to think they are all like that. Regardless of which party they are in.

Let’s call for an end to his multiple income streams that are at opposite ends of what he campaigns about and get him to just focus on being an ignorant MP. I can’t take a single thing this man says seriously. He’s a ligger and a grifter abusing his office position to exploit the working people of the country.

Don't give him ideas!

The grifting twat is charging people £250 to apply for a chance to be a Reform UK MP. I have absolutely no idea how anyone can take the bunch of jokers seriously. He’s making a mockery of our entire political system.

At Christmas they were selling Reform UK branded football shirts signed by Farage for £350 a pop. All about extracting money from the gullible.

He advertises Reform as the party for the ordinary hardworking average Joe. They are not, they are for the rich, and what they can gain from being in power. It’s actually quite frightening.

Me too. There have been days where I have got up at 3 or 4am in the morning to get a head start before the kids wake up in the morning, or I’ve worked until 11pm at night or a Saturday morning in order to get deadlines done. A lot of my colleagues do the same. I’m willing to do it because my employer allows me to WFH. If my employer suddenly removed wfh then that would be the point when I would withdraw all that goodwill and I would not be willing to work a single second outside of my core hours and not in my home. The work would just not get done, and I will be telling them it is because they withdrew WFH.

The name ‘Reform’ is ironic as they seem to want to take everything backwards.

They should rename themselves ‘Regress’

he is funded by office landlords. He just says what his paymasters tell him to say.

reform are a private company not a political party.

shareholder profits over quality of life.

Part of the culture wars innit?

It's all about pitting people against each other. Those 'shirkers' that apparently doss about all day doing fuck all working from home against REAL workers that graft in offices, shops and factories.

I work from home and work flat out. If I didn't, the work wouldn't be done and I'd be sacked.

Old and retired here too. WFH is great for those industries that can do it
I actually did it for nearly 20 years (working part time) and it was oh so much more productive than previous job in an office. Always got in early so I could work before most people.got in, when people started coming in there was gossip, no end of distractions, couldn't have WFH then, computers only just coming in and no internet.
As long as I did the work I had to do at the time I was supposed to I could work whenever. So if I wasn't so well, I could have a lie in a d work when I was feeling better. So no time off at all for sickness in all those years. Or to go to medical.appoinemts cos I worked round them. I did visit the office or other places when needed. In the summer I'd work during the heat of the day.
When things went all online and we didn't need the office any more, the premises were taken over by out neighbour which enabled it to expand its operations.
An office building in our town was converted to flats years before EFH, anyone who wanted a small office had the chance to rent a small room in the town council building which worked out cheaper than the rent on the old.outdated building
Obviously a teacher can't WFH, or a car manufacturer. But for those who can, go for it. Convert office buildings into flats, and go some.way towards solving the housing crisis
Should. god.forbid, Farage ever become.PM.he would be working from home wouldn't be, no 10. And next door are the ultimate WFH jobs

DH works from home and has done for the last 10 years, long before covid. A lot of businesses don't want to pay for London office space anymore, plus it means they can recruit people from across the country. We're 300 miles from London.
If everyone suddenly had to work from a London office, they would lose 90% of theor employees.