Alan Sugar says put a suit on, put a dress on, put your makeup on

[Dontmakemegoback2office]

Do your hair and get back into work..
All from the comfort of his own home. Mind blown.

www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrari/lord-sugar-says-public-must-put-on-a-suit-put-on-a-dress-and-get-back-to-work/

Lord Alan is of course just worried about all these office blocks that he owns and rents out through Amshold and Amsprop in places like Mayfair being empty and the losses he will now incur due to the fact that we have found a better way to live and work.

The world is changing. Either adapt or disappear.

P.s. we are working Alan, just not in your offices. Because we can do it well from home.

What annoys me most is people assuming that those of us who had to work from home were just watching TV all year. I've honestly worked as hard as I would in the office. We're lucky and our bosses are only just bringing us back to the office part time from next week.

I've never worn make up to work. Not starting now because Lordalan says so.

If you're so keen on getting everyone, Back To Work, SurAlan, give us The Apprentice 2020!

Heffalooomia - I’ve really cut back on non-essential spending. For one, the high street shopping experience is rubbish these days. Secondly, saving for new baby and loss of earnings.

I don’t appreciate the government and Sugar telling me to spend money in Pret etc. Spending is one of the few things we still have control over and nobody is going to order me to spend money.

Fed up of propping up people like him who as you say, want people to get back to work to make him more money.

Best you go on benefits then, because this is every employer, you are a worker Bee, lol.

I found it depressing wasting my life in an office. I actually felt a bit sad for myself that life consisted of years and years of sitting in offices- there's no looking back for me and there is not need for me to be in an office. My company is getting more time from me as there is no commute (& they don't pay the associated costs to gave me at a desk). I can only see a win win here. I don't give a shit about people that own commercial space. Times have changed.

Trouble is that WFH clearly isn't working in lots of cases. Where it's working, then fine, fill your boots. But customer service levels have fallen through the floor and customers won't put up with that. Firms will have to improve or they'll fail. That means either making WFH work better or get staff back into the offices.

@Heffalooomia

To people like him we are just cash cows, he wants us back in the milking shed, back to what we ought to be doing ie making a profit for the rich and Powerful

You do realise that most commercial property is owned by pension funds, so if property values fall, then the pensions of millions of ordinary working people will also fall.

Thats because Lord Sugar believes there is only 1 type of job. Im about to go to work (in my own business) in a hoodie and jeans. OK the hoodie is branded but its definitely not a dress! Not everyone works in an office. Not everyone wears a suit. Some people continued to work during lockdown, others adapted. The economy is wide and varied so its a shame he doesn't seem to recognise that. Plus offices suck. I'm a bit believer in sick building syndrome and always felt terrible working in one.

I never wore dresses to work in my old job. Few of my colleagues did.

we need to have a functioning economy more than we need people to have social lives.
I'm not saying we should allow ourselves to be thrown under the bus but I think we should accept that there is a need to prioritise some activities over others

Yes, we need to prioritise saving Pret over seeing our own families

He is an out-of-touch hypocrite so no surprise.

He is also has major interests commercial property and he will be shitting his keks at big companies downsizing or getting rid of their office spaces.

Remember, Alan Sugar only cares about what is good for Alan Sugar.

I've loved working from home. Even more so now the kids are back in child care and school. I get loads more done and I don't have to sit on a smelly germ ridden bus for 2 hours every day. I'm in absolutely no hurry to get back to the office whatsoever.

Ignore him - he’s just desperately clinging on to something we all know is finished (as are some people on this thread!) I for one am delighted to ditch the commute and the time spent with distracting people I couldn’t care less about in a soulless office. My employer has already very sensibly realised there’s no point in ever going back, but if they hadn’t I’d eventually take my specialist skills and look for a better employer with WFH roles, as most people will.

People might like working from home for obvious reasons. It's never going to be as productive as having people go to the office though.

We will be on Lockdown v.2 soon and ordered to stay home again.

Go to work! Stay home! Go to work! Hop on one leg!

very untrusting of his staff

Lots of managers still are like this.

But it’s not so much this for Alan now. He makes most of his money from leasing out large office blocks in central London to other companies.

He also jointly owns Siteform Flooring
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08206359/officers

Which yes, you’ve guessed it, kits out commercial offices with flooring!

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - I'm looking at RF here, our MPs and civil servants and others with second home and money no problem. Are MPs aren't back yet at Westminster -are there? My friend's GP (working from home) recently told a stressed out friend who is tearful of going into a work (a teacher) to pull her finger out and do "her bit for children" etc -my friend is 50, serious health issues and BAME, GP refused to sign her off, -and said GP then confided to me that her own children aren't going to school -she is home schooling and she hasn't been in her work place ie the GP surgery for weeks as she is worried. Double standards or what?

Put your make up on ? Gives me the flipping rage though. What is this 1920?

Alan Sugar can fuck off to the far side of fuck. Horrible hypocritical man.
They're the type of people that have no sympathy for disabilities they just brandish everyone that isnt at their over achieving level as lazy.

I thhink people should include whether they live alone or eg with 3 under 5s - it's pointless just saying you love or hate it without some detail.

most commercial property is owned by pension funds, so if property values fall, then the pensions of millions of ordinary working people will also fall
Can pensions pivot their Investments to sectors which are more relevant and profitable, is that not the point of investing, ie that we choose industries which promote the well-being of society as a whole?
I appreciate that a crash values is destructive, but unaffordable highly leveraged property prices are also destructive, should we not look to improve the situation?

she hasn't even met her colleagues in person yet.

Yeh but the really interesting question for me now, is do you need to meet someone in person? (Obviously to cut their hair, but..) Can human communication adapt in a way that means for many things we don’t have to? Can you build a quality work relationship without meeting in person?

I fortunately don't have a commute but it was nice wearing smarter clothes this week, they seem a bit of a waste when WFH.

@everythingisginandroses

He's a greedy gobshite.

This.

Well I'm cheering that I'm back at work at least half the week. I wore boots with heels the other day and got on a train! It was bloody lovely to be away from my estate away from my house and away from my jogging bottoms!
I think that if most people stay WFH we won't have city centres anymore.
Also we might not have public transport.
Where I live the roads are chocka all day long (all the WFH people nipping out on their breaks I guess) but the buses and trains are empty. I'm scared they will cut the already shit transport options we have now.
I do really feel for the 22 year olds as well. No real way of observing the way a business is run. No after work drinks and no flirting!