Stuart Rose has claimed that remote working is “not proper work”. That may make sense for retail but it’s wide of the mark when it comes to legal and financial services, says John Hayes

Stuart Rose, the former head of supermarkets, Asda, Ocado and M&S and one of the most influential retailers of the past 30 years has stated that remote working is “not proper work”. He claims that the UK has “regressed… by 20 years in the past four” through having embraced remote and hybrid working. He asserts that this is having a deleterious effect on personal development and the country as a whole (although clearly not golf clubs).

In fact, the true position is a lot more nuanced than what Stuart Rose asserts, as our client work demonstrates.

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