Wales - Workers to be fined for not working from home

[bitchstewie]

I honestly thought this was a wind-up when I saw it on Twitter

Covid: Workers to be fined for not working from home

[mikees]

How the fk will that be enforced? Idiots.

[dmahon]

Haha we reach new levels of clown world over Covid

[Ivan stewart]

We are talking about Kim jong Drakeford anything is possible same with lady wee Crankie ..
Makes Boris look almost sensible

[richardxjr]

Ludicrous

Lap it up.

[survivalist]

Double whammy - something that is simultaeneusly stupid and unenforceable.

Why is it being introduced? Possibly because neither employers or employees are taking all this nonsense seriously anymore?

[Brave Fart]

More evidence that some politicians see covid as an excuse for ever more intrusions into people's everyday lives.
The notion that the state should regulate, by law, an individual's choice of place of work is, well, bonkers.
What next? Citizens required to get permission from Kim Jong Drakeford to go shopping? "Is your shopping trip truly necessary, comrade?"

I am, and have been, bitterly critical of the Tory government. But if this is what you get under Labour rule then you can keep it.

[crankedup5]

Somebody is pulling the crackers early. Potty.

[TonyRPH]

mikees said:

How the fk will that be enforced? Idiots.

Many home workers (probably not all) depend on VPN access to carry out their daily job.

VPN access can be monitored - so I guess if they're not connected, or there is little to no traffic flowing, they are not working.

[Jasandjules]

That is going to make the Tesco checkout worker role more challenging..

[untakenname]

Bandwidth isn't a good metric for productivity, a worker could spend hours being productive in a spreadsheet and only create a couple of KB of data.

[Vanden Saab]

I was only saying earlier that we are so lucky to have Boris and was roundly laughed at and this comes up as a reminder of what we could have won.

[ozzuk]

TonyRPH said:

Many home workers (probably not all) depend on VPN access to carry out their daily job.

VPN access can be monitored - so I guess if they're not connected, or there is little to no traffic flowing, they are not working.

Huh? The Government doesn't care about your productivity at home, they just don't want you in the office. Poor wording I'll admit!

[Flooble]

Brave Fart said:

More evidence that some politicians see covid as an excuse for ever more intrusions into people's everyday lives.
The notion that the state should regulate, by law, an individual's choice of place of work is, well, bonkers.
What next? Citizens required to get permission from Kim Jong Drakeford to go shopping? "Is your shopping trip truly necessary, comrade?"

I am, and have been, bitterly critical of the Tory government. But if this is what you get under Labour rule then you can keep it.

Isn't demanding that people are only allowed to purchase the bare essentials something he already did last year? All those aisles in Sainsburys sheeted down as he had deemed the products to be non-essential?

[mike80]

Sadly enough people are probably perfectly happy working from home and just won't care.

[Johnnytheboy]

The Welsh Government are so much fun, aren't they?

Is this even a massive thing? Lots of people refusing to WFH?

Most people probably don't need much persuading to WFH.

How will this even be proved?

[TonyRPH]

untakenname said:

Bandwidth isn't a good metric for productivity, a worker could spend hours being productive in a spreadsheet and only create a couple of KB of data.

It depends on exactly what's being monitored.

Some companies route web traffic through their VPN so f a lot of web traffic is detected for example - that could be used as a measure of productivity.

[Evanivitch]

It's utterly bizarre that this ever entered into legislation.

It's entirely unenforceable.

[CoolHands]

I’m mean seriously, the Welsh and Scottish governments are off their tits. Thank god for Westminster

[Tango13]

Jasandjules said:

That is going to make the Tesco checkout worker role more challenging..

Not sure how I'd squeeze one of these in the front room either...