Billionaire philanthropist John Caudwell has blasted the post-pandemic work from home phenomenon, claiming it will hit national productivity.
In a recent interview with GB News, the Phones 4u founder said: "You cannot have a society working from home.
"Most people need to be in the business for a whole range of reasons. It doesn't mean everybody but for most people it is positive for mental health.
"Bupa have done a study that showed that people working from home are overeating and we've got an obesity problem in the 海角视频."
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Mr Caudwell – who hails from Stoke-on-Trent and is one of the richest people in the Midlands – also said people working from home can lack motivation and miss out on learning from colleagues.
He added: "From a business point of view, there's a more important point because you lose the coaching between subordinates. So there's a lack of learning, a lack of motivation, a lack of interaction and excitement – some people are just not self starters.
"At the end of the day, we all have to provide good value because if we don't, we don't earn the money, we don't have the money, the business in trouble, the economy's in trouble.
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"We all have to provide the proper value for what we're being paid and if we don't do that, society fails.
"My people have been able to work from home and they were productive, but that's not right for everybody and nor is it right for my office."
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His comments come as fewer than one in 10 Britons told how they want to return to their workplace full-time despite the end of working from home rules.
Some 90 per cent of those quizzed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) want to keep working from home at least part-time despite efforts by ministers to get people to return to city centres.
While just six per cent wanted to work from home full-time, 84 per cent said they wanted to have a hybrid lifestyle where they split their time between home and the office.
And the proportion of those wanting to spend the majority of their working week at home rather than their traditional workplace has also risen by 12 percentage points in the past year since rules were relaxed.
The ONS noted that the most common reason given for retaining working from home was that it had become part of workers' 'normal routine'.