The Times tells us that the UK is the hybrid work capital of Europe. This is despite efforts by business owners to get employees back into the office because they believe that it is more productive when employees work from the office perhaps because they are able to communicate more fluidly with other employees and improve efficiencies.
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| I am not suggesting that this particular man is lazy!! |
And the Times also reports that Mondays and Fridays remain the quietest days in offices. Surprise, surprise. 😃🙄
Being somewhat cynical, I take that to mean that hybrid workers simply see an opportunity to extend the weekend from 2 days to 4 and in effect have a three day working week which might explain why productivity in the UK is in a dire state and perhaps the lowest in Europe.
The UK has a productivity problem and although many experts have suggested various reasons for this such as a lack of investment (which is, by the way, also a major problem in the UK because businesses are under investing) I would like to suggest that the country has become lazy and flabby. There is a distinct lack of work ethic in my view.
I believe that the Covid pandemic in effect turned people off from the work ethic. In the UK they were given 80% of their salary for 18 months. To stay at home. Go to the park and do nothing while raking in 80% of their salary.
I think this has engendered a lazy attitude to work. It has reset the minds of many employees into believing that they needn't work to obtain a salary. And if they have to work as they do they will do as little as possible.
It is politically incorrect to state that hybrid working fosters laziness. But I think it's common sense that it does. Sitting at home with the kids trying to work on the computer when you're bound to be distracted if you have children, for example.
Or if you haven't got children then you might be working alone and it takes a lot of self-discipline to work productively at home alone. The employers know, as mentioned, that it is better to have employees working from the office. Employees resist this now (and employers simply can't get them back into the office) and insist on hybrid working from day one.
And because in the UK there appears to be a skills shortage or a lack of really good high quality employees, employees tend to bend over backwards provide extra facilities in order to capture the employee.
Employers are giving employees the option to work in the hybrid style. I sense that there is a laziness in this country not only because of the extended weekend MO as mentioned, but because there is very large number of young men and women who're quite capable of working but refuse to work and have signed off sick with anxiety
It is also politically incorrect to say that these people are gaming the system. But it is true that they are. Obviously not all of them are gaming the system but hundreds of thousands are and this woke government simply will not address that sensitive point.
They're loathe to accuse these young people who should be working of being lazy and workshy. They want to try and encourage them back to work but personally, without seem to be too right wing, I would kick their backsides to drive them back to work because that's what they need.
Their benefits need to be stopped and they need then to be forced back to work but perhaps they have generally lost their confidence and therefore the government will have to boost their confidence before they can participate in mainstream employed life.