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Working or Shirking from Home?

Posted in : Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 14 December 2022
Seamus McGranaghan
O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors
Issues covered: Remote and Hybrid Working

Christine:  So working or shirking, Seamus. Basically, the world is divided into two different sectors. We've got kind of our Alan Sugars, our Elon Musks that think if you're not sitting in front of me at your desk, slaving away, then you're not really working.

There was a CEO who put a comment on LinkedIn that he thought his employees were sitting about in their onesies watching loose women and feeding the squirrels.

So I think there are a lot of people that do think that. The other side of the coin is employees are more engaged, they have more time with their families, they're not wasting time sitting in traffic or in trains and buses getting into work. They've got better work-life

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Seamus McGranaghan
O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors

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