The former head of Asda and Marks and Spencer has cautioned that working from home is producing a generation that is “not doing proper work.”
Lord Rose told BBC Panorama that workers’ productivity was declining and that working from home was contributing to the “general decline” of the UK economy.
His remarks coincide with some businesses discontinuing remote work. Several companies, like Amazon, Boots, and JP Morgan, now demand that their head office employees be present every day.
Prof. Nicholas Bloom, an authority on working from home, asserted that although working entirely remotely can be “quite damaging” to some employees’ productivity, working in the office three days a week was as productive as working entirely in an office.
