Sir James Dyson
(Picture: PA Media)James Dyson has suggested that everyone stop working from home and return to offices and it has gone down terribly.
Writing in The Telegraph, the billionaire inventor called on the government to take the “less popular decision” and encourage people to return to offices in order to restore the “competitiveness” of the nation’s firms.
“The Government must now harness any ‘vaccine dividend’ and support Britain’s firms as they seek to recover their global competitiveness,” he wrote.
“Returning to the workplace is the essential starting point.”
Advice in England to work from home where possible was lifted on 19th July as part of the many blessings of ‘freedom day’.
However, Labour has previously called for flexible working to become the “new normal”, saying “the right to flexible working will change our economy and the world of work for the better”.
Dyson also referenced the ventilators the Dyson company produced at the early stages of the pandemic as an argument for the office, though he did not note that he begged Boris Johnson not to make him pay extra tax if his company came to the UK to do so.
“Projects like this could never work with people cocooned at home,” he wrote, though he managed to shape UK tax policy from his phone alright.
Reacting to his unsolicited advice, people on social media turned on their vacuum cleaners to drown him out.
Some on this drivel by overpriced hoover seller James Dyson
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) August 19, 2021
He pushed hard for Brexit then moved operations to the far-east
It is neither liberalism, capitalism nor democracy if ministers order people into offices - pandemic or not!
Hoovers will NEVER be known as dysons https://t.co/TlrcugwLPS pic.twitter.com/b6AFi5sue3
Utter tosh from Dyson. The pandemic has taught us that there are many ways of working effectively, in teams, with creativity and initiative. Hybrid works. https://t.co/7vjRpwArTl
— Chris Marston (@ChrisMarston12) August 19, 2021
"Sir James Dyson calls for end to home working and a return to the office"
— Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 (@uk_domain_names) August 19, 2021
Brexiter who turned his back on the UK and moved his HQ to Singapore now wants to herd people into danger. Par for the course. https://t.co/bNXbKVl2ox
Sir James Dyson: Home-working affecting competitiveness of UK firms so I’ve decided to work away from home in Singapore to avoid tax and the success that is Brexit I vehemently championed so I, like, know what I’m saying….
— Paul (@mckenp04) August 19, 2021
When James Dyson says "the UK wall fall behind if workers aren't forced to return to offices"; what he actually means is that working from home is harming his commercial property portfolio. pic.twitter.com/pfl0rXW0zv
— Jack Duncan🔻 (@JackDunc1) August 19, 2021
A message from @Dyson founder and commercial property billionaire James Dyson
— Ant (@M0kujin) August 19, 2021
“Get back to work peasants, I’ve got rent that needs collecting” pic.twitter.com/eXi8Lc6uqM
Dyson the biggest landowner in the UK he owns more land than the Queen. Sir Dyson campaigned for Brexit then moved all his operations to the Far East.
— Linda Hubbard (@lindahubbardart) August 19, 2021
Sir James Dyson says it's time to ditch home-working and get back to the office.
Just shut up!https://t.co/SFCGdjwtTf
Dyson, a vocal supporter of Brexit, sparked outrage when he moved his headquarters out of the UK to Singapore in 2019. He also piped up earlier this year to claim Brexit had given us “independence of spirit” and was promptly roasted again.
Despite these setbacks, the glutton for punishment seems like he doesn’t give up easily. We look forward to his next hot take.
