The 'leader' of the country cannot understand the different people work in different ways and different jobs have different requirements.
And outs himself as lazy and undisciplined.*
*Which of course we knew already.
I could write forever about this story. But it’s a lovely sunny day in Britain’s second city so I’ll just say this:
1. The brass neck of a lazy, feckless, privileged, posh, thick cunt like Johnson lecturing anyone on the world of work is risible.
2. As ever, where capital is and where Johnson is on any given issue is revealing. The boss class
love wfh. Lower rents through shedding office space, lower utilities bills and new digital surveillance products meaning more labour can be extracted mean home working is here to stay whatever that porky fucker thinks.
3. It’s not organised Labour preventing a return to work. It barely exists and even where it does it’s not strong enough to dictate or mediate the organisation of work.
4. One of the side effects of wfh on our side is worker atomisation. We’ve largely lost the ability to have the face to face casual contact with the white collar membership at our place. As it becomes more deeply embedded we (and unions generally) in my view are going to need to think about we talk to, communicate with and organise going forwards.
5. Bar the editor of the Daily Mail I wonder who Johnson thinks this line is going to play well with. Whose the constituency who’ll, as they turn the heating off or survey the empty food cupboard in their houses, will think ‘ah well, at least Boris has saved Pret by getting the office workers back’….