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.

Is that your Team, or your company .?

All I am reading in this discourse is load and load and loads of tales about shit employers where for some reason it's the workers fault.

DARVO - the misogynists answer to duct tape. Holds everything together.

Because regardless of who earns more, whose job is more 'important', whose employer is more unreasonable... It is almost always the woman's career that has to give when it comes to childcare. It is the woman who is called to leave work when their child is sick. It is the woman who bears the brunt of caring responsibilities when elderly parents need more help.

Working from home allows women to fully participate in the labour market. Not by taking the piss and looking after the kids and granny when they should be working. But by taking advantage of the flexible working hours that wfh usually also affords, going to get the kids when they're sick because apparently the husband is too big and important to possibly stop work, and finishing their hours when someone else is around.

Or if the kids are older, parking them on the sofa with a glass of water and a film then carrying on work, everything at home set up for it, school only a 5 minute drive away rather than leaving work, battling traffic for half an hour, dropping kid at home, getting gran in to watch them and driving half an hour back to finish her day.

If someone hasn't grasped the concept of indirect discrimination this far in, then they won't ever.

What is Nigel Farage going to call for next. An end to tea and coffee in the office? An end to loo breaks on company time?

Well, people managed office work before 2020, so it’s not a generational thing.

If there was a grift to plug a new Russian British energy drink then how long do you think it would take ? Cheered on by posters here who will regale us with tales of "people they know" who take 8 hour tea breaks.

🤣🤣 yes but l’ve caught AI out twice today already 😀.

Only twice ?

You can't work and take care of children at the same time

I wonder how much office real estate is owned by Russian interests.

He can fuck right off with that shit. The people who it will affect the most are women (and men) gojng back to work after kids, and people with mobility issues and tight budgets.

I can't imagine it's that popular with a lot if employers either. It saves on office space and costs, and means there is a bigger pool of prospective employees.

Not if you are so low paid that you can't afford it. You appear to have led a very sheltered, fortunate and privileged life if you can't imagine the situations women can find themselves in.

Could be 2 for 2. I mean, I haven't yet met an AI generated document that didn't need major correction and addition of missed content.

Working from home is crap for younger people. Also from employers point of view its crap for them.

Precisely this. I don't think people think through the connotations when they say people should be in the office all the time. What a ridiculous waste of time to spend most of the week driving from site to site for different meetings, when you can fit more in on teams and work far more efficiently. The cost in fuel as well is also something to bear in mind (which work would have to pay for if you are driving around in work hours as opposed to standard commute)

It's also better for the planet to have less cars on the road and for those who do need to go to an actual place of work, there is less traffic on the road, so the commute takes less time

What an absolute nonsense, yet another reason not to ever vote for this idiot.

DH works from home and has done for the last 10 years, long before covid. A lot of businesses don't want to pay for London office space anymore, plus it means they can recruit people from across the country. We're 300 miles from London.
If everyone suddenly had to work from a London office, they would lose 90% of theor employees.

Old and retired here too. WFH is great for those industries that can do it
I actually did it for nearly 20 years (working part time) and it was oh so much more productive than previous job in an office. Always got in early so I could work before most people.got in, when people started coming in there was gossip, no end of distractions, couldn't have WFH then, computers only just coming in and no internet.
As long as I did the work I had to do at the time I was supposed to I could work whenever. So if I wasn't so well, I could have a lie in a d work when I was feeling better. So no time off at all for sickness in all those years. Or to go to medical.appoinemts cos I worked round them. I did visit the office or other places when needed. In the summer I'd work during the heat of the day.
When things went all online and we didn't need the office any more, the premises were taken over by out neighbour which enabled it to expand its operations.
An office building in our town was converted to flats years before EFH, anyone who wanted a small office had the chance to rent a small room in the town council building which worked out cheaper than the rent on the old.outdated building
Obviously a teacher can't WFH, or a car manufacturer. But for those who can, go for it. Convert office buildings into flats, and go some.way towards solving the housing crisis
Should. god.forbid, Farage ever become.PM.he would be working from home wouldn't be, no 10. And next door are the ultimate WFH jobs

Part of the culture wars innit?

It's all about pitting people against each other. Those 'shirkers' that apparently doss about all day doing fuck all working from home against REAL workers that graft in offices, shops and factories.

I work from home and work flat out. If I didn't, the work wouldn't be done and I'd be sacked.

he is funded by office landlords. He just says what his paymasters tell him to say.

reform are a private company not a political party.

shareholder profits over quality of life.

The name ‘Reform’ is ironic as they seem to want to take everything backwards.

They should rename themselves ‘Regress’

Me too. There have been days where I have got up at 3 or 4am in the morning to get a head start before the kids wake up in the morning, or I’ve worked until 11pm at night or a Saturday morning in order to get deadlines done. A lot of my colleagues do the same. I’m willing to do it because my employer allows me to WFH. If my employer suddenly removed wfh then that would be the point when I would withdraw all that goodwill and I would not be willing to work a single second outside of my core hours and not in my home. The work would just not get done, and I will be telling them it is because they withdrew WFH.

He advertises Reform as the party for the ordinary hardworking average Joe. They are not, they are for the rich, and what they can gain from being in power. It’s actually quite frightening.

The grifting twat is charging people £250 to apply for a chance to be a Reform UK MP. I have absolutely no idea how anyone can take the bunch of jokers seriously. He’s making a mockery of our entire political system.

At Christmas they were selling Reform UK branded football shirts signed by Farage for £350 a pop. All about extracting money from the gullible.

Don't give him ideas!