“Keir Starmer Is WRONG On This” | Prime Minister Pushes For More Working From Home

[@PercyPound]

Police may as well work from home for all good they do on the streets.

[@alanbradley9621]

CORRECT............We can police ourselves. Stasi next door. .

[@lindajones7219]

Great Comment, it brightened my day very funny indeed .

[@MrAckers75]

Must remember to tell our bricklayers “don’t burn yourself out lads” What a set of absolute weak wimps this country has made!

[@bowjana8128]

@@MrAckers75 bricklayers are essential office staff are not

[@MrCreativent]

More like what a bunch of neglected morons seem to think their imaginary view of the world is the facts because some disgusting post on social media says it's the immigrants' fault. Despite the fact homeborn whites make up a disproportionately high amount of their share of crime committed in this country. But they like to ignore that when they're screaming idiocy on the streets because Farage and Tommy Robinson meekly insinuated they should. You're pathetic.

[@adrianbrown1492]

More people working from home would mean even fewer people using the trains than there are now. Hardly justification for paying train drivers and other rail staff more and more.

[@Theforestbandit]

Is your home registerd with the Council as a Business Property . As it will raise your Council Tax .. Great Scam Starmer !!!

[@starsine9062]

Milan has driverless metro trains. Very smooth and efficient.

[@lunaterra253]

​@@starsine9062 is it still funded by the public?

[@adrianharrison5208]

@@AT-bq1kg Can't blame people for not wanting to go into the office from Monday to Friday if they don't have too

[@davidfoster2006]

Labour voters should have stayed in bed and never left the house, on Election Day.

[@Trendycosmetics-os6gh]

Spot on.

[@MuffinTop90]

Because we’ve got an activist group in government.

[@edaleman2758]

We had that with the Tories. Activists for themselves and their rich friends.

[@bowjana8128]

Don't need managers working from home making spreadsheets that no one looks at

[@davidfoster2006]

Surely with more people working from home less train drivers will be needed.

[@cmproc1]

😂😂

[@alanbradley9621]

@@davidfoster2006 That should reduce need for commute by 50 percent. Are we thinking effect of AI on certain types of employment?

[@stevehorner9004]

They Will NOT BE NEEDED SHORTLY WHEN AUTOMATED TRAINS COME

[@Neerod49]

Heavens forbid, burnt out! Go back to the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s when people worked all the hours they could to support their families, even before that. Hard grafting on farming, in the mines, now they are worn out sitting at a desk. Try nursing, on your feet all day.

[@patmartin9727]

As a retired nurse I totally agree. Nurses can work 4 days but it’s 3 x 13 hours with an hour of breaks throughout of your shift.

[@alanbradley9621]

That's right nursing 12+ hours on shift and on your feet. While politicians and the like won't even be falling out of bed. Can we shut down Parliament and sell it off to the Chinese? This Starmer he just cannot help himself He keeps on giving whenever he opens his mouth....

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

Even better why not go back further, a hundred years ago we didn’t even have a full weekend! Just a Sunday off if you were lucky. And before that in Victorian times many people worked 7 days a week to support their families. The people in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s were job shy weaklings compared to those lot. I say we go back to no days off and even less employment rights so we can slave away to make profit for the rich and powerful!

[@brianthirling9260]

Don't worry the labour party will have you working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week just to survive 😂

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

@@brianthirling9260 I’ll take my chances with them, better than the tories who trashed the economy, they had no idea how to manage a budget and put Liz Truss in charge 😂

[@BacBac-g5e]

And what about workers in food industry, nurses, plumbers etc..? Pizza guy has to bring food for the laptop worker?

[@alanbradley9621]

Yeah and heat your own home while your about it.

[@jacquelinepearson2288]

Exactly! It's just building a two tier society. Not everyone has a choice to work from home apart from office-based jobs. Also has an adverse affect on the struggling high streets with less office workers out shopping at lunch-time. People will be just stuck in their homes and have no interaction all day. No wonder so many people say they feel lonely.

[@lindajones7219]

@@jacquelinepearson2288 The Great Re Set Agenda going to Plan.

[@lunaterra253]

My mate recently went to citizens advice and the woman said they're *under staffed because loads decided to not work in office anymore after lock down* now because of them and their selfishness we watched a disabled elderly woman get turned away because "they didnt have enough people", B S

[@daviddobson494]

More time at home, lsss time to talk to othsrs about how bad thiss government is

[@cgat1955]

A lot of people working from home only do a couple of hours, then the one’s who like to wear Lycra get on their bikes and clog up the roads

[@stevenmoses5807]

Can't get a job with no experience, you need the job to gain the experience.. starmer absolutely brain dead.

[@waynelovatt5209]

Because we have a terrible public transport service and an infrastructure that's over population

[@jamesbain6070]

Starmer does what unions order him to do .....simple as that

[@markscript5746]

This is how Westminster and the civil service have always worked

[@gherkamum]

Postmen to work from home.😄

[@MrC.1990]

WFH is for the lazy

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

You think that because the right wing media tells you to think that. And the right wing media tells you to think that because they are in bed with corporate landlords who want to discredit working from home because their cash flow from corporate office space is drying up. Try thinking for yourself. Stop being a sheep. Stop being easily manipulated. Stop listening to “news channels” with an obvious agenda.

[@libelle8124]

I recently had to call my council and I had a stress out mother on the phone with her children screaming in the background, whilst I needed to discuss a discrepancy of my council tax bill. Of course it all worsened the situation and now I have to sort out the mess she has created by being not fully 'there' to deal with my issue. Often they 'don't have access to the system', which they would do if in the office or you call somebody and the call disappears into oblivion. Possibly because they can't be bothered. In the meantime, the council building is standing there, empty, being heated in winter, cooled in summer and most of the staff are security. The young up there should go back to bed, he clearly had a very long night and he looks totally hungover.

[@Pixieworksstudio]

I agreed with you until you put down a guy for the way he looks. It makes a change to have a proper debate on Talk, rather than a presenter yelling their heads off with their own opinion. The young man looks like most of his age, and there is nothing wrong with that. It was a well balanced debate.

[@libelle8124]

@@Pixieworksstudio Not my problem if you fail to see reality and then sending have a novel, seems that you do agree, yet suffering having to live in denial.

[@Pixieworksstudio]

@@libelle8124 Sorry I haven't a clue what you said there.

[@libelle8124]

@@Pixieworksstudio That's fine, stay clueless 🙂

[@Pixieworksstudio]

@@libelle8124 That's fine, don't speak English properly, and nobody has a clue what you are on about. Not the best basis for you to debate a point

[@MichelCollins-q1j]

I really hope people will still empty my bins.

[@TwistedTiara]

Every civil servant should be forced to get their arses back into the office and get their bloody jobs done.

[@patrick3136]

He's wrong about most issues,or he doesn't believe there are issues! Probably wants what the hotel dwellers have.

[@timcrosbie2635]

Bloke in the beard has that work-shy look about him 🤔

[@veronicawhirnt9101]

Yes!!!

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

You can smell his excuses.

[@mchaplin66]

wfh means stay in bed till 2 -use a gadget to fool your boss that you are on the computer and go to pub -most civil servant managers do it

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

@@mchaplin66 sounds like they’re cleverer than you then? Getting paid a good wage to doss about. Think they’ve learned a lesson or two from the parasitic lazy establishment class of this country - wealthy do-nothings.

[@bowjana8128]

Anyone who can do a job from home is not essential and doesn't have a proper job

[@Theforestbandit]

Is your home registerd with the Council as a Business Property . As it will raise your Council Tax .. Great Scam Starmer !!!

[@philmcgroin]

Wrong

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

You being able to post a comment on a video on KZbin is thanks to tech workers. The vast majority of which work from home. Maybe that’s not what you would consider an “essential job” but I hope the irony isn’t lost on you.

[@philmcgroin]

@@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj of course the irony is lost on him

[@bowjana8128]

@@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj sending emails from home is not a essential job

[@ClaireSmith-wt5ul]

Let’s all work from home, then there will be more empty buildings

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

That’s capitalism. Society should adapt and change with the way the working environment does. we shouldn’t pander to corporate landlords who want steady cash flow because that’s the way things have been before.

[@theoutlier9053]

Every decision he makes is wrong

[@Pixieworksstudio]

Thank you all three of you. A successful debate, without a presenter shouting their brains out with their own opinion.

[@patmartin9727]

4 days a week means people need to be prepared to work longer hours on the days they do work.

[@cgat1955]

Not a chance of that happening, they’re done by lunchtime and off to cycle round the roads in packs clogging up the roads. It was terrible during lockdown, I’m a carer and those selfish cyclists would be three abreast on country lanes

[@Adam-v5c8c]

Longer shifts less unpaid breaks

[@ML-xh1go]

I have never heard such BS from that young person,hard work never hurt anyone,how do they think the older generation managed, they do not deserve a job, if it can be done at home,then it can be done abroad with cheaper labour,

[@jillhart9444]

Better tell all the supermarkets to work from home plus the manual also if its good for a office waller its good for all

[@gladiator22666]

It would be extremely difficult for me to work from home , I really wish I could ! I install industrial flooring !

[@Pixieworksstudio]

I know why. The same reason he wants pay per mile. 15 minute cities and towns. He wants us to be restricted in every way possible .

[@alanbradley9621]

Is this an acceptance That your job os No Longer Necessary? If you ate not missed. Next the office accomodation will be closed without your knowledge. Then it's don't bother coming in. Make yourself unemployed snd sign your own P45... 😢And no one missed you at all ever.

[@PhilBurns-oc2vg]

Try the ultimate work from home option. Unemployment

[@salmak586]

I think it’s excellent idea

[@billywaide9852]

He has no other choice.half the civil servants are still working from home 🏠.

[@peterwickett9088]

Everyone do a 1 day week pay less tax then 🥳

[@andyo-southpawguitaruk5322]

A lot of civil service proceedures are becoming more and more automated, and Retail , construction and Care dont stop, those you can't work from home. I do welcome the part of not disturbing employees on their days off, or outside of working hours.

[@Theforestbandit]

Is your home registerd with the Council as a Business Property . As it will raise your Council Tax .. Great Scam Starmer !!!

[@alanbradley9621]

@@Theforestbandit Plus pay your own heating and lighting...Also you are giving away part of your property to your employer.

[@Theforestbandit]

@@alanbradley9621 Spot On !!!

[@philipburke1149]

Cost of elec of gas working from home. No thanks

[@Theforestbandit]

Is your home registerd with the Council as a Business Property . As it will raise your Council Tax .. Great Scam Starmer !!!

[@philmcgroin]

Less petrol so it's swings and roundabouts

[@brianthirling9260]

Starmers labors gov will have you working 12 hours shifts 7 days a week just to survive 😂

[@nicholaspostlethwaite9554]

You are wrong. Home based working is better where possible. Office attendees spend far too much time chatting and idling about socialising. It is the future of all work and all education get used to it. Yes a new starter or the young may need some training time in a crowd horrid environment to learn the job. Anything on the end of a phone or computer is the same wherever you sit to work on the end of them.

[@JohnHancock-vu4nd]

Pay per mile and work from home. Is this getting the ball moving to the end of private car ownership?

[@lindajones7219]

YEP Exactly right

[@Neerod49]

I have worked the condensed hours, which is my full time working hours over 4 days and have done this for a number of years. I wouldn’t say I’m better off. 8am until 6pm. I love my job, but I work over my contractual hours and will work on my non working day, as I do not like to come into work the following week, with work still outstanding from the previous week. If people want to reduce their working hours, be prepared for your wages to reflect it, you can’t have it both ways.

[@Theforestbandit]

Is your home registerd with the Council as a Business Property . As it will raise your Council Tax .. Great Scam Starmer !!!

[@Adam-v5c8c]

More work less pay

[@Timsvideochannel1]

We only have to look at the public sector to see why short working weeks and working from home is a really bad idea. As a country we can no longer afford the bloated public sector without massive productivity gains and job cuts.

[@gameboy666666]

Keir thinks that everyone works in a office

[@Moonlightsonata-o8r]

4 day working week would only work if you have enough staff to do that There are jobs where working from home could not work like schools Social care and hospitals Or in retail which are around the clock jobs and are open all year round

[@bowjana8128]

Or essential workers what are needed not managers making spreadsheets at home that no one reads

[@turboslag]

What about those that have to be in a work place for their working day, like retail, nhs, emergency services, care workers, factory workers, production workets, etc, etc?! Also, UK productivity and GDP per capita is amongst the poorest in the west, cut working hours any more and that is hardley going to improve! Countries that are prepared to work harder will just gain a bigger advantage!! The UK already has extremely good working conditions, compared to the USA for example, where even holidays are not an entitlement!! Some companies there allow workers to take a holiday, but very often unpaid, same applies to sick leave, maternity leave etc. Where there is paid holiday it has to be earned by continuous years worked. Here, holiday leave is paid and automatic as soon as a worker starts with a company. Our economy is in the sh1t, wage growth is poor and yet people want to work less, wtf?!

[@lindaaih]

Terrible argument. Those in retail benefit because people spend less on their commute and more with retailers, NHS less likely to be pressured to be sign people off sick due to toxic office culture, carers not stuck in traffic because the roads are blocked up, people can check in on elderly neighbours and relatives on their UNPAID lunch breaks eases burden on carers and emergency services. If your job can be done at home the proof is in the pudding what you've been asked to do is done to time, cost and quality.

[@Philipwaltho]

It was not labour it was the Tories who gave us the three day week kn 1974 please get it right

[@starsine9062]

Fantastic…..everyone who wants to do and earn more will take advantage and push on!!

[@adrianharrison5208]

I work a 4 day week but I work for myself, If your work like has been said for the general public then expect to go to work 5 days a week

[@robertanthonynolan9697]

starmer =wrong

[@junesmith6689]

4 day week Joe Lazy “ you know what”

[@alanjames884]

What about people who can't work from home?

[@gazevans1038]

That's unfortunate.

[@stephanieterry8844]

I had a phone call appointment lady was working from home her dog wouldn't stop barking she apologies and puts dog i a different room then 15 minute's into the appointment her door knocked she was waiting on a parcel Working from home and the service you get is a joke

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

I’ve found the opposite to be true so my experience contradicts yours. Anecdotal evidence is useless. Studies show working from home has actually increased productivity.

[@PhilipMatthewsPAEACP]

The PAEACP is peacefully objecting to the cr-minal system we all suffer!

[@MrLaurence8]

Does Mr Starmer wrk from home?

[@lisejacquelinerigault2575]

I like Jake Berry, why is he not in the running for the leadership of the conservative Party ? His reasoning is spot on !

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

@@lisejacquelinerigault2575 his reasoning is spot on if you’re thick as mince.

[@lisejacquelinerigault2575]

@@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj Pretty thick yourself by the look of it. Three short planks come to mind....

[@stanthemafia]

Nothing wrong with working from home

[@bowjana8128]

Anyone who works from home is not essential or needed

[@user-ci1vd2ev5i]

I work on a cnc milling machine it won't fit in my house what should I do

[@Theforestbandit]

Is your home registerd with the Council as a Business Property . As it will raise your Council Tax .. Great Scam Starmer !!!

[@MrC.1990]

Everything is wrong with WFH. It’s completely LAZY! Get back in the office

[@gazevans1038]

I agree, many self-employed businesses have been working from home for donkey's years and are still going strong. With regards to employees, WFH is a contract between the employee and employer ...it's nothing to do with anyone else.

[@cindyfaulkner5725]

What we need is to go back to the old style way of working, where there were weekends, those that worked fulltime during the week were off on Saturday and Sunday and young school kids qnd college students worked weekends. Which gave families the opportunity to spend time together at weekends and younger people got to earn some money and experience with weekend jobs. It all worked quite well.

[@raven-sf3di]

A.i is always in the office

[@eggchipsnbeans]

Ooooh how about letting businesses and employees working it out for themselves?

[@Theforestbandit]

LABOUR WERE GOOD AT GIVING US THE 3 DAY WEEK IN THE 1970s

[@boota1979]

@Theforestbandit Get it right. Tories Heath government 1970 /1974, Labour Wilson government 1974/1976, Labour Callaghan government 1976/1979. Labour were a minority government for three out of their five years in power in the 70's.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

Who owns the office not the company they rent the space its the elite building owners

[@paulmessenger9836]

It's pension companies do you have a pension

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

@@paulmessenger9836 don't be so rude

[@ashwhite8610]

The bald chap is clueless. Civil servants at home or in the office can and do take calls from the public.

[@Flickering-candle]

My daughter works 6 days a week unfortunately she can not work from home

[@daledevernon56]

Talk about sending out mixed messages, the government just made a big issue about people isolating themselves and being involved in incel Communities well this is just going to promote that even more isn't it. now this.

[@Idontcare-g1n]

He doesn't want the tax payers to see what's going on in the streets

[@neelamacwan7670]

Starmer needs to be kicked out of downing Street immediately

[@rogernightly9097]

Why do you think everyone works in an office what about tradesmen who need to be out working?

[@Gycvbjhfddaerfchknopjgvvj]

@@rogernightly9097 what about them? They chose their path. Are they such snowflakes that they might throw a tantrum if office workers get to work less hours?

[@gazevans1038]

But surely tradespeople chose their occupations because they didn't want to be stuck in the office in the first place?

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

It doesn't matter if the person at the end of the phone is at home or an office as long as they have full access to the information and can provide what you need. If the nature of the job means you cannot deliver the service other than in an office then thattis what is required. I suspect many jobs can be done remotely with no service impact, some can be a hybrid mix and some might need to be fully office based. Its then up to individuals and businesses to work out what works for the role.

[@user-di1rj2be7w]

Those that dont agree with work from home can not be trusted

[@raven-sf3di]

Then don't trust us . If you want politicians working from their (holiday) home in Spain or America then go ahead . But I don't want to live in a country where they can phone it in.

[@MrC.1990]

Maybe you can be paid less WFH. You’d soon come back to the office then

[@gazevans1038]

@@MrC.1990 "You’d soon come back to the office then" but if the OP's employer is OK with WFH what does it have to do with anyone else?

[@MrC.1990]

@@gazevans1038 you shouldn’t get the same pay when you’re not commuting, getting food on the go, lazing around watching daytime tv in between zoom calls and moving your mouse so you look busy.

[@gazevans1038]

@@MrC.1990 What has commuting got to do with it? Employers don't pay their employees for their journey into work. You've never worked from home have you Mr C? If you did then you would know that buying a mouse jiggler just moves the mouse .... it doesn't do your work for you. And if the work doesn't get done then what do you think the employer would do?

[@user-di1rj2be7w]

I do not like KS and think he should step down, BUT he is correct about working from home and 4 day week

[@gazevans1038]

@@AT-bq1kg The OP's local businesses will benefit.

[@johndakin9466]

Starmer is a total disgrace and waste of space! He needs to be replaced as a matter of urgency !

[@neil4920]

4 day week should mean less money, and only the idiots support a 4 day week. I'm 42, and I love being in the office.

[@gazevans1038]

I suspect employers will still expect their employees to work the same amount of hours so if you currently work an eight hour day it would be raised to 10 hours.