It is a step in the right direction for the government to now force private companies to require 40% of staff to work from home. I’m obviously not talking about restaurant cooks, mechanics, or other professions which clearly require employees to be on site. I’m talking about accountants, administrative staff, programmers, designers, and other professions that can 100% do their jobs from home. “Productivity” is the most common excuse that employers use for insisting that their workers still come into work. Based perhaps on the reprehensible age-old capitalist attitude that workers are inherently lazy, they claim that when employees work from home, their productivity suffers.

Source: The Star May 23, 2021 00:45 UTC