Former Asda boss says WFH employees 'don't do proper work' in scathing attack

Lord Rose of Monewden, who served arsenic president of Asda from 2021 until past November, says the "general decline" of the UK system is owed to the emergence successful WFH culture

The WFH culture has created a procreation of radical who are "not doing due work," the erstwhile brag of Asda has said.

Lord Rose of Monewden, 75, added helium the caller mode of moving is contributing to the economy’s decline. The entrepreneur, who served arsenic president of Asda from 2021 until past November, believes radical are little productive astatine location than they are successful offices.

But the government’s caller workers’ rights measure is acceptable to marque it harder for employers to crook down requests by unit to enactment from home. It was discussed connected BBC's Panorama past night, connected which Rose expressed his frustration.

The Conservative adjacent who was knighted for services to the retail industry said: "We person regressed successful this state successful presumption of moving practices, productivity and successful presumption of the country’s wellbeing, I think, by 20 years successful the past four. We are creating a full procreation and astir apt a procreation beyond that of radical who are utilized to really not doing what I telephone due work."

Justin Madders, the employment rights minister, has antecedently said moving from location creates a much motivated workforce. However, precocious immoderate of the world’s biggest companies, including Amazon, Boots and JP Morgan, person mandated unit instrumentality to the bureau afloat time.

Jamie Dimon, the main enforcement ofJP Morgan, had sought to reinstate bureau moving from 2021, The Times reports. He lone achieved this for his workforce of much than 300,000 this month.

The feat besides featured successful Panorama’s "Should We Still BeWorking from Home?", which is disposable connected BBC iPlayer, which highlighted however immoderate parts of the nationalist assemblage person tightened up connected location working. The Metropolitan Police enactment a hybrid argumentation into signifier which requires civilian unit to enactment astatine slightest 3 days a week successful the office.

Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), from December past twelvemonth revealed that 26 per cent of radical had been hybrid moving successful the erstwhile week, portion 13 per cent had been afloat remote. Four successful 10 radical said they had been successful the bureau afloat clip the erstwhile week, portion the remaining 5th were not moving astatine the time.