Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

What an absolute nonsense, yet another reason not to ever vote for this idiot.

Precisely this. I don't think people think through the connotations when they say people should be in the office all the time. What a ridiculous waste of time to spend most of the week driving from site to site for different meetings, when you can fit more in on teams and work far more efficiently. The cost in fuel as well is also something to bear in mind (which work would have to pay for if you are driving around in work hours as opposed to standard commute)

It's also better for the planet to have less cars on the road and for those who do need to go to an actual place of work, there is less traffic on the road, so the commute takes less time

Working from home is crap for younger people. Also from employers point of view its crap for them.

Could be 2 for 2. I mean, I haven't yet met an AI generated document that didn't need major correction and addition of missed content.

Not if you are so low paid that you can't afford it. You appear to have led a very sheltered, fortunate and privileged life if you can't imagine the situations women can find themselves in.

He can fuck right off with that shit. The people who it will affect the most are women (and men) gojng back to work after kids, and people with mobility issues and tight budgets.

I can't imagine it's that popular with a lot if employers either. It saves on office space and costs, and means there is a bigger pool of prospective employees.

I wonder how much office real estate is owned by Russian interests.

You can't work and take care of children at the same time

Only twice ?

🤣🤣 yes but l’ve caught AI out twice today already 😀.

If there was a grift to plug a new Russian British energy drink then how long do you think it would take ? Cheered on by posters here who will regale us with tales of "people they know" who take 8 hour tea breaks.

Well, people managed office work before 2020, so it’s not a generational thing.

What is Nigel Farage going to call for next. An end to tea and coffee in the office? An end to loo breaks on company time?

If someone hasn't grasped the concept of indirect discrimination this far in, then they won't ever.

Because regardless of who earns more, whose job is more 'important', whose employer is more unreasonable... It is almost always the woman's career that has to give when it comes to childcare. It is the woman who is called to leave work when their child is sick. It is the woman who bears the brunt of caring responsibilities when elderly parents need more help.

Working from home allows women to fully participate in the labour market. Not by taking the piss and looking after the kids and granny when they should be working. But by taking advantage of the flexible working hours that wfh usually also affords, going to get the kids when they're sick because apparently the husband is too big and important to possibly stop work, and finishing their hours when someone else is around.

Or if the kids are older, parking them on the sofa with a glass of water and a film then carrying on work, everything at home set up for it, school only a 5 minute drive away rather than leaving work, battling traffic for half an hour, dropping kid at home, getting gran in to watch them and driving half an hour back to finish her day.

Is that your Team, or your company .?

All I am reading in this discourse is load and load and loads of tales about shit employers where for some reason it's the workers fault.

DARVO - the misogynists answer to duct tape. Holds everything together.

23% of families in the UK are headed by single women. There is no man there to pull his weight. Would you prefer these women worked in jobs that give flexibility, or be on benefits?

Do you need Farage to come in and sort this or is it something you might want to look at internally?

Meanwhile, I haven’t worked in the same office as my team since before Covid

Reminds me of the days when you could work for 4 different companies in a month without changing desks 😀

I actually agree with Farrage. I manage a team and notice that in particular parents these days don’t pay for childcare and do school runs etc during work hours. It’s difficult to manage.
Too may people taking the piss wfh.

The point is objecting to onsite working is just excuses.

Ultimately employees need to work where their employer says, subject to employment contract.

If all the meetings I had to go to this week were in person, I would probably have had to decline or reschedule half of them due to having to travel between them

I think a lot of the anti-WFHers just don’t understand modern office-based roles. There seems to be as assumption that in the office you sit with The Team and the bulk of your work is confined to The Team.

Meanwhile, I haven’t worked in the same office as my team since before Covid and even then I spent more time talking to those outside it who were very often not in the same building or country than I did with teammates.

It’s one of the things I find frustrating about the argument that career starters need someone at the next desk at all times. I haven’t been able to get all my questions answered by someone sitting near me for the best part of 20 years now. Being comfortable with communication that isn’t face to face has been a vital professional skill for a long time.

"AI" isn't remotely approaching any semblance of being stable yet. Anyone who is planning anything is either lying or building that into their risk matrix.

Nothing is a barrier to being onsite. Nothing at all.

With that as your starting point, it is very much a choice where to stop.

No idea but I'm sure if you ask it to it could do that 😁