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link to info for this campaign?

by lbotos 6y ago

evgen 6y ago
Info on the government campaign to get people back to offices? See any UK newspaper for past week or BBC. The controversy regarding the hypocrisy of government agencies telling people to go back to offices (under pressure from biz groups who represent the various chains that survive off these commuters) while their own workers are WFH? Look to any newspaper from past three or four days for that one. Contra the earlier claim the Daily Mail group is not among those pushing for a return to regular commuting, other than their desire to parrot the Tory party line; in fact, they had one of the more pointed push-backs by showing that the same ministry that was telling companies to return workers to offices had less than 10% of its own employees working in the office (feels somewhat dirty posting a daily mail link, but it does reveal a bit of the controversy https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-work...)
- davidgerard 6y ago
  safe link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.daily... There's a bit of politics there - the Daily Mail are still right-wing xenophobes, but the present editor doesn't like the Johnson/Cummings team at all, and takes shots at them whenever he can.
techer 6y ago
'Go back to work or risk losing your job': Major drive launched to get people returning to the office Ministers warn that continuing to work from home could make staff ‘vulnerable’ to being sacked
- Normille 6y ago
  I had to laugh when I saw this report [0] “Clearly people should be going back to work because it is safe to do so. There are already problems with workers’ mental health. It’s not just about hard-nosed economics,” the report said, citing a Cabinet minister. The idea that this is not a purely economics-driven initiative and that the government gives a flying fuck about the mental health of the working population is so beyond farce as to be an insult. How stupid do they think we are? [0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-job/johnson-to-launch-drive-to-get-britain-back-to-the-office-telegraph-idUKKBN25N34M https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain...
  - davidgerard 6y ago
    basically, (a) no actual office worker believes the government line on this (b) the employers - who are actually paying people to work from home - don't believe the government line either
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  - bluntfang 6y ago
    >How stupid do they think we are? what's the phrase? "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it"?

link to info for this campaign?

by lbotos 6y ago

link to info for this campaign?

Info on the government campaign to get people back to offices? See any UK newspaper for past week or BBC. The controversy regarding the hypocrisy of government agencies telling people to go back to offices (under pressure from biz groups who represent the various chains that survive off these commuters) while their own workers are WFH? Look to any newspaper from past three or four days for that one. Contra the earlier claim the Daily Mail group is not among those pushing for a return to regular commuting, other than their desire to parrot the Tory party line; in fact, they had one of the more pointed push-backs by showing that the same ministry that was telling companies to return workers to offices had less than 10% of its own employees working in the office (feels somewhat dirty posting a daily mail link, but it does reveal a bit of the controversy https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-work...)

davidgerard 6y ago
safe link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8675573/Just-5-workers-returned-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharmas-office.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.daily... There's a bit of politics there - the Daily Mail are still right-wing xenophobes, but the present editor doesn't like the Johnson/Cummings team at all, and takes shots at them whenever he can.

techer 6y ago

'Go back to work or risk losing your job': Major drive launched to get people returning to the office Ministers warn that continuing to work from home could make staff ‘vulnerable’ to being sacked

Normille 6y ago
I had to laugh when I saw this report [0] “Clearly people should be going back to work because it is safe to do so. There are already problems with workers’ mental health. It’s not just about hard-nosed economics,” the report said, citing a Cabinet minister. The idea that this is not a purely economics-driven initiative and that the government gives a flying fuck about the mental health of the working population is so beyond farce as to be an insult. How stupid do they think we are? [0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-job/johnson-to-launch-drive-to-get-britain-back-to-the-office-telegraph-idUKKBN25N34M https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain...
- davidgerard 6y ago
  basically, (a) no actual office worker believes the government line on this (b) the employers - who are actually paying people to work from home - don't believe the government line either
- deleted 6y ago
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- bluntfang 6y ago
  >How stupid do they think we are? what's the phrase? "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it"?