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Business Insider
Billionaire James Dyson says letting
people work from home is 'staggeringly
self-defeating' and will cause friction between employers and
employees.
December 12, 2022
Story by agoh@insider.com (Amanda Goh)
Sir James Dyson presents the Special Recognition award for Innovation on stage during The Fashion Awards 2017 in partnership with Swarovski at Royal Albert Hall on December 4, 2017 in London, England.
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Sir James Dyson has slammed the
UK's plans to extend employees' rights to work from home.
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Writing in The
Times, the billionaire said the policy shift is "economically
illiterate and staggeringly self-defeating."
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Without control over where employees work, companies
like Dyson will hesitate to invest in the UK, he said.
Sir James Dyson thinks the UK's plans to allow employees to continue
working from home are "staggeringly self-defeating."
"The government talks loftily of the UK being a 'science and
technology superpower' while doing everything it can to achieve the
exact opposite," the founder and chief engineer of multinational
technology company Dyson wrote in a December 8 commentary
piece for The Times.
Under new legislation, workers in the UK will have the right to
request flexible working arrangements even on their first day of work,
per a December 5 press release from the UK
government. This policy shift falls under the government's plans
to make flexible working the default.
However, such a move — which comes during a global
recession — is a "misguided approach" that will "generate friction
between employers and employees," Dyson wrote.
"We have seen from our own experience at Dyson during periods of
government-enforced working from home how deeply inefficient it is,"
Dyson wrote. "It prevents the collaboration and in-person training
that we need to develop new technology and maintain competitiveness
against global rivals."
The billionaire also took a swipe at the legislators who were in favor
of the reform, writing that the policy was "aided by the many civil
servants who enjoyed working from home, despite the shockingly bad
public service they often provide and their terrible track record of
delivery."
Dyson, who's currently worth an
estimated $15.4 billion, is not the first business leader to rally
against flexible work arrangements for employees.
In August, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon pushed
back against remote work, saying that it "slows down honesty and
decision making."
In November, just two weeks after taking over the company, Elon Musk
sent a 2:30 a.m. email to Twitter staff, requesting them to return
to the office for "a minimum of 40 hours per week."
Dyson did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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