Off your peloton and back to work...

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AIBU to think this is an appalling choice of words for a government to encourage a workforce back into the office environment?

Back to work makes it sound as though they have not been working for the last 18 months. Some of these posts would have been key workers assisting with the continued functioning of the country during the pandemic.

How dare they flip it now and insinuate staff have been lazy / work shy.

Of course if you're not communicating for a couple of hours per day you will have more time to work out if you so choose.

Is it really up to the government to decide where these workers carry out their work in future - home or office?

who said that? Did they really say "peloton". That is truly awful if they did

To be fair the 'Peloton' thing was in direct response to a senior civil servant who said she liked working from home because it meant she could spend more time on her Peloton bike. So he didn't just pull it out of his arse.

"People need to get off their Pelotons and back to their desks," Conservative Party Chairman Oliver Dowden has said.

news.sky.com/story/conservative-party-conference-tory-chairman-oliver-dowden-tells-civil-servants-to-get-off-their-pelotons-and-return-to-the-office-12426850

Really insulting tbh

I’ve WFH since March 2020 and start early, regularly work lates and login at weekends

If I go back to the office full time I’ll stop doing extra. Travel takes up 12 hours a week and it’s exhausting so I’ll stick religiously to work hours

I find it astonishing that the Tories manage to alienate the working class (mostly totally priced out of the cult of peloton, or never got the chance to wfh in the first place), so will find this galling and exclusive language, and the middle class (who are the ones told to get off their peloton) and yet almost undoubtedly they will STILL be re-elected in the next GE.

Amazing.