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.

Not if you are Wework. For them it's trebles all round. Maybe they made enough to slide some spare to the author of the policy ?

When you get to my age, you will have lost count of ways filthy lucre can be shovelled into the trough for greedy snouts.

The UK has never been interested in reducing traffic and car use. I mean people have to have a reason to buy cars.

But that poster doesn’t work for WeWork.

For the poster’s company it’s been a failure in terms of
increased fixed costs.j

But I do agree with you that Farage’s concern about WFH is just about appeasing his landlord mates and bribers.

It’s for companies to manage work performance, not for the government to ban WFH for every organisation, public or private.

That is just insane and the impacts on women, disabled people, people being forced to live in unaffordable areas, companies who would need to now find more office space… it’s absurd and quite concerning.

First country in the world to ban flexible working.

Farage is an idiot. Who is he even trying to appeal to? What other stupid ideas does he have in store?

Who gives a shit about the Ops company ? As far as Farage is concerned their only role will be to ensure they continue paying eye-watering rents to his mates in commercial property.

And artificially increasing demand (and thus rents) is a benefit of reversing WFH.

Do you really think Farage thought or cared if Brexit was good for the UK ? Of course he fucking didn't. Farage is not the UKs friend. And never has been.

So many people don't see past his "send them all back" agenda. He also wants a USA approach to health care. Thought they didn't like the tories? The idiots who will have voted him in have seen nothing yet and it terrifies me.

Farage is an idiot. Who is he even trying to appeal to? What other stupid ideas does he have in store?

Short of King Nigel, wasn't Brexit enough ?

Maybe you are mixing with the wrong sort of people?

When you apply the mildest of critical thinking to anything around the Reform agenda, you realise it's full of shit.

"Everybody" knows entire cities that are all on the lam.
"Everybody" knows families who have a new car a week and a holiday to get a break from the complications of counting money and laughing at us.

etc etc.

And yet. we are still waiting for that "I gave up my job to live a life of riley on benefits - AMA" thread, aren't we ?

Of course even writing that will attract the uber-dim for whom "Nuance" is the fragrance of fear, and the ability to grasp that "If not this then that" isn't how life works.

For those who say the office buildings in the LA have all been sold, surely as businesses and LA lean more into AI they won't need so many WFH staff surely?
I'm not being goady, it's surely a natural conclusion of it.
In a country where so many councils are almost bankrupt they need to save costs.

AI can’t completely replace staff. Maybe it can be used for note taking but someone still needs to check for errors. Even if AI is used, someone still needs to monitor it.

Why does it impact women specifically?

Tell me you have no idea about indirect discrimination without telling me you have no idea about indirect discrimination.

Nigel Farages Reform will get rid of SEND spending. So plenty of lolly to spaff on whatever the grift of the day is.

The working classes wages have been massively suppressed in this country for decades now due to cheap mass imported labour. I have seen it myself.

In the early 2000 I recruited jobs paying mid £30k's. Over the next decade every job I advertised had multiple applications from Spanish, Italians, Portugese etc offeringh to do the job at just above half the UK going rate. It was the same in many roles. This mass immigration drove wages down for the UK native working class.

It's one reason the working class voted for Brexit and Reform, the working classes standard of living, housing costs etc have all suffered. Farage is the only one saying he will do something about it.

Naturally the rich that loved living in theri French second home etc hate him for Brexit but the working class cling to him as the only party that might sort out their issues.

ChatGPT notes that since Farage entered politics, the life satisfaction for working classes has decreased.

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.

Why wonder ?

Just look west.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.