Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

I am saying it is not a barrier to being onsite.

There are lots of things lots of people can do.

You can still utilise childminders if by necessity you are a working parent.

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 (work in a large multi-site organisation that also works with hundreds of other smaller orgs). As it is I feel like i’m hopping from one Teams call to another - I have 7 meetings scheduled today, plus other ad hoc calls in between. I would be far less productive in person.

Mothers, so a large number of women. Or disproportionately women.

Maybe you should tell the men who fuck off and don't pay for their kids.

Er.... Single parents, most of whom are women? 🙄

You referred to people you know and then tar everyone with the same brush. There are ways of measuring productivity and performance.

Due to world time differences l am often up for video meetings with Singapore in the middle of the UK night. Where am l suppose to go for these?

With hybrid working (more common than strictly remote) you can go into the office more often if you want. If people want to work from the office, they can.

That is a terrible idea. Totally unfair on colleagues as well as being a part time parent

I depair why so many have children knowing they are not in a position to provide the time and attention a child needs.

Women can have careers but need to have solid provisions in place otherwise it is selfish all round.

I saw a video on YouTube (l know, i know!) suggesting that Farage's health isn't too good, possibly due to the endless fags and booze and pondering if Reform would fold without him at the helm. It did pose some interesting questions. I have always thought that the only reason it is so prominent is due to Farge being so well known and being good at tuning and feeding on people's discontent. It has got me thinking what they would do without him as leader, I think the infighting would be very entertaining

I'm a leftie. We are supposed to be tolerant. 'We have more in common than that which divides us' and all that.

I also have an educational background in psychology. I know that backing people into a corner, insulting and othering them is a terrible way to get anyone to understand something.

And yet.

I think anyone that is even considering voting for Reform, let alone openly and publicly declaring their allegiance, is an absolute fucking moron with the critical thinking skills of a rock.

And not a shiny clean rock that is enriched and carried along by river water flowing over it. A dank, moss-covered rock stuck at the back of a cave, that hasn't seen the light of day for a hundred years.

Even less capable of intelligent reasoned thought than you could possibly imagine a non-sentient inanimate object like a rock could be. That kind of rock.

"They're all the same."

"It's time for a change."

"They couldn't do worse than Liebour! (do you see that I did there? I took the word 'Labour', and I changed the first two letters from 'La', to 'Lie', because they're - no wait, don't walk off, you're going to love this - because they're LIARS! They lie! LIEBOUR! Do you get it? Right, I took the 'La' and changed it to 'Lie'. L I E. Lie. Liebour! I know, it's brilliant. Liebour. Lie-bour. I'm proud of that one.)"

"Reform say what the working classes are thinking."

It is astonishing how fucking gullible and stupid people can be.

I wonder if work from home is the way some mums are able to pay the bills while caring for children?

Not everyone can afford child care so WFH allows some parents to keep working while making sure their children aren't alone.

Does anyone have this experience? Please reply with your experience, really interested to hear this perspective or any others!!

WFH doesn't specifically affect women.
If the issue is childcare, a partner can help? Nurseries? Or nannies. If none of this is financially viable you need a career break and be a SAHP for the short term and allow your partner to temporarily carry the financial burden. It is beneficial to the child.

As we now know you can't have it all.

Meaning???
A typical defensive comment from people who wfh and take the p

Genuine question. Can Al be fully costed at this stage, taking into account, maintenance, repair, upgrades, quality control, audit requirements etc

That's great but what you personally do isn't really the issue.

I know people don't like the idea that some good workers have to suffer for the lazy arses, but what managers are allowed to do in terms of singling people out or is increasingly controlled or limited. It's worst in the public sector where it often seems impossible to weed out people who are useless. And then arm's length government funded organisations, or charitable sectors. There is so much emphasis on meeting people where they are at, treating all employees the same, fairness, and, to be frank, ass covering. And larger private companies seem to be going the same way in many cases.

And then there is the issue of productivity going down not because people are being lazy, but because you don't get the same kinds of synergies, training, and mentoring.

You appear to have quoted the wrong post you are replying to.

I refer you to my previous post. If anyone else here can't get the point I am sure they'd tell me.

same as per brexit.

Things promised not being delivered? Fucking remoaners civil service obstructing The Will Of The People.

Things going completely wrong due to stupid policy decisions? See above.

Precisely, that's what you get when Labour are in power, unemployment of the working classes always increase under Labour. They need to keep the underclass down and poor.

Oh right. So women want to be treated equally unless they need special treatment.
MN has thread after thread of posters complaining about their partners and the replies are always the man should be pulling their weight and taking an equal part in parenting.
So why is it only disadvantaging women?

Maybe civil servants and public servants should go into the office -after all the taxpayer is paying them -private companies can do what they like

Why wonder ?

Just look west.

I haven’t read the full thread but I am perplexed as to why nutty Nigel would wade in on employment. It’s up to businesses and employers how they manage their staff.

I hate this man with a passion but a very small part of me would be interested to see how the reform voting gammons react if reform get in and they have to live with the shitshow they created.