Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

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Nigel Farage has doubled down on his attack on remote and hybrid working, calling it “a load of nonsense” and saying people are only productive when working face-to-face in the office. He argues we need an “attitudinal change to hard work” rather than focusing on work-life balance.

AIBU for thinking this idea is just bonkers and totally at odds with how most of the workforce actually wants to work now?

I can only think it appeals to the "pull the ladder up" generation. Don't give two fucks about anyone else as long as they are comfortable or those that are unable to wfh and want everyone else to be as miserable as them.

I’m perplexed as to why this would need government involvement anyway. Seems very nanny state.

Surely it’s up to businesses to decide what works for them, including what will attract good people to work for them.

This from a man who is never in his own office.

He can just fuck off. Along with all his ex-pat cronies who live to put the UK down from their foreign lands. Fucking traitors.

Of course it’s ridiculous and completely out of touch. What else would you really have expected?

As we see in the US "Good business" means doing what Der Fuhrer says.

All the people I work with who think everyone should be in the office are either lazy and want other people to do their work which is easier to gain in the office.

Or the extroverts who bang on about the social contact when what they do do in the office is gossip or complain all day and distract other people from their work.

Why would he want to tell businesses how to run? Isn’t this the kind of interference he doesn’t like? What about businesses that got rid of office space?

From the man who never goes near his constituency.
Talking his usual shit.

It will probably start with the public sector, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be pushed onto private companies as well. There are some fairly obvious incentives at play, many major Reform donors have significant investments in office buildings and there’s also a sizeable older voter base that simply dislikes working from home and sees it as a lack of “proper” work. Add in a certain misery-loves-company mindset and you can see the appeal.

I imagine it would be done indirectly rather than by an outright ban, for example through taxation. Companies could be required to report WFH levels via ONS returns, with higher rates or levies applied where home working is widespread. That would effectively make WFH too expensive for many employers, even if it’s working perfectly well for staff.

Says the prick who does the bare minimum

Hmm. Does Richard Tice come into the office every morning from the middle east?

Local authorities have sold off buildings because many people now work from home. Where will the magical budget be to create space to bring them back in? I thought they wanted to cut waste.

Him skiving is exactly why I think he assumes that’s what working from home is… also you’ve got all his cronies that own property companies that need people working in offices.

I think it's a mistake. As Labour and the Tories have shown, you need to only tell everybody what they want to here at this point. Go back on your word and start fucking people after the general election!

I'm tired of old white men telling as all what we should be doing.

the company i work for recently moved to fancy posh offices, if they instigated a everyone back in office 5 days a week theres not enough seats for us all

I am way more productive working from home. Work from home about 95% of the time. I hate it. I don't find it normal to be on my own all day with no human interaction - apart from the odd Teams call.

He's a hypocrite. Last May reform advertised 9 jobs in their office for remote workers

Practice what you preach you old dinosaur! He's got F all clue about the modern workplace. Completely out of touch.

I think nigel farage is the scum of the earth and can hardly look at his smug face but I think wfh is shit for youngsters and that's what I've got.
Renting a small room and working and sleeping in it all day is bloody crap.
I can see how its great if you have a home and space and can put a wash out or be at home after school...however I dont think this trumps the decline in mh that wfh brings to younger generations.

Surely it’s up to the individual employer?

Richard Tice lives in Dubai 😂😂😂😂

He cannot force every employer to force their employees in.

I’m guessing he either has money invested in, or is getting strongly lobbied by, the firms who build, run and let office blocks and the surrounding rental space for sandwich chains.

Being lectured about hard work by Nigel Farage is like being given budgeting advice by a billionaire.

Doesn't he also want welfare reform?

Why don't people understand that if you want more disabled people off benefits and in employment, work from home is one of the reasonable adjustments that could make a huge difference?

Many councils have sold property off especially to help with balancing the budgets. There's not enough room in all organisations.

More evidence that he is a knobhead

How often does he work from his workplaces, Clacton or the House of Commons?

He seems to avoid doing that job completely