Johnson's utterings on this highlight so many of his personal failingsCowsham wrote: ↑14 May 2022, 6:49am Boris says working from home doesn't work
Taking a swipe at the out-of-office culture that has taken hold across Whitehall, he adds: 'My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and then, you know, getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop and then forgetting what it was you're doing.'
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1. He seems to think that because something does not work for him it cannot work for anybody.
2. Through PartyGate he has often claimed how No 10 is his home ... so when working in No 10 he is "working from his home office" - maybe he is right that he cannot get anything done working from home.
3. He cannot recognise the circumstances and different typs of work others do. I (and other s/w developers reporting to me) used to work from home a lot and "productivity" was massively higher - it worked very well for both the individuals and the cmpany. Of corse a postman or supermarket cashier will not be very effective working from home.
4. It highlights how poor his at organising - when sitting at a laptop working you finish a "section" of whatever you are doing then get a coffee. You stop at a sensible point to resume. When people are reading a book they don't stop mid sentence to make a coffee. They finish the chapter or to a break in events or even a paragraph - that way they can pick up from where they left off. Stopping mid-thought (as Johnson claims he does) shows a "scatter brain" attitude and I suspect not focusing on the work.
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Edit: Plus with all the challenges facing the UK at the moment e.g. Cost of Living, massive tax increases, NI Protocol & Assembly, etc. one would have hoped the PM's focus would be on those issues not where people work and are most productive. If working from home is "not working" for an employee his/her manager should have already identified the problem and be sorting it. If it is working for an employee stopping it will just make things worse for the individual and company.
Ian