The work from home debate drags on

The work from home debate drags on

Former retail boss of Marks and Spencer and Asda has fired off his own salvo in the return to office/ work from home debate.

Lord Rose argued: “”We have regressed in this country in terms of working practices, productivity and in terms of the country’s wellbeing, I think, by 20 years in the last four.”

Amazon, Boots and JP Morgan are just some of the businesses who now require their head office staff to be in every day.

The shift to working from home has transformed local economies. Industry estimates indicate that vacant office space has nearly doubled since the pandemic, a quarter of dry-cleaning businesses have shut down, and the number of golf games played during the working week has risen 350% – suggesting some people are mixing work and pleasure.

Lord Ross said in a BBC Panorama interview that working from home is creating a generation who are “not doing proper work”,

There is no doubt that working remotely require self discipline and commitment, but there are plenty of people who are self employed and working from home on their own businesses who do just that.

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