to think some people would be weirdly excited if WFH came to an end?

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LoveWFH · 13/02/2026 09:22

Why do some posters sound almost delighted at the thought of Nigel Farage stopping WFH?

There’s this tone of “that’ll teach them” whenever it comes up. As if people working from home have been getting away with something.

Here’s the practical bit though. My company couldn’t bring everyone back full time even if it wanted to. They’ve sold off chunks of the office space. Whole buildings gone. Desks gone. Leases not renewed. There literally isn’t room for everyone anymore.

Hybrid working isn’t some trendy phase. It’s how a lot of businesses are set up now. They’ve planned for it. Budgeted for it. Recruited around it.

You can’t magically create space that no longer exists.

If you prefer being in the office, fair enough. Plenty of people do. But I don’t get the satisfaction at the idea of other people losing flexibility that works for them and their employer.

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SnowdropCrocus · 13/02/2026 09:29

randomchap · 13/02/2026 09:26

Lots of money is invested in office buildings.
If wfh is banned then those landlords can charge more as there will be higher demand.

I wonder if NF or his backers have invested in office space.

Definitely. That's what it's about.

SnowdropCrocus · 13/02/2026 09:28

People have always worked from home. My great grandmother took in washing for example.

hairyunicorn · 13/02/2026 09:28

I work in facilities, we are and always have been in the office 5 days per week :(

CactusSwoonedEnding · 13/02/2026 09:28

Quite right. I think the weirdly delighted people come in two flavours though. There's the ones who themselves have a natural tendency towards laziness that they may or may not have worked hard to overcome but assume that everyone who does WFH is similarly lazy and needs to be in the office in order to be productive. And then there's the social butterflies who get energised and inspired by the group atmosphere in the office and find it genuinely more difficult to get motivated when working solo. Both types have an enormous empathy deficit or willful ignorance about colleagues who find the office environment distracting or even overwhelming and who are 10 times more productive when they WFH.

randomchap · 13/02/2026 09:26

Lots of money is invested in office buildings.
If wfh is banned then those landlords can charge more as there will be higher demand.

I wonder if NF or his backers have invested in office space.

havingoneofthosedays · 13/02/2026 09:26

Yeah agree with above, the government have no say in it

Liondoesntsleepatnight · 13/02/2026 09:25

Very wise words. My sector has been hybrid way before that term was used, started in 2002. I’m very much a “work is what I do not where I go”. my company doesn’t have capacity for full time office based and our transport network couldn’t cope, our roads would be clogged.

let’s get Farage trying to a Thursday morning commute in rush hour to see how the transport system couldn’t cope.

xanthomelana · 13/02/2026 09:25

How can any government tell companies where their staff can work from? I just think the media is creating hysteria over this unnecessarily.

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