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🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.0 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. Here we go again, another week. |
0:14.0 | And if you have an office-based job, are you back in at the office or you at home or perhaps |
0:19.4 | a bit of both? Over the weekend, in an interview with the Daily Mail |
0:22.7 | headlined Working From Home doesn't work, the Prime Minister had this to say, |
0:27.5 | My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup |
0:31.2 | of coffee and then you know getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, |
0:35.0 | hacking off a small piece of cheese and then walking very slowly back to your laptop |
0:38.8 | and then forgetting what it was you're doing. |
0:41.8 | Boris Johnson's on a mission to reverse what looks like a permanent mindset shift |
0:45.8 | in the UK according to data analysis in the financial times today, |
0:50.0 | numbers are getting too short. There was a big response to what the Prime Minister |
0:54.0 | had to say with his take about working from home with many women in particular |
0:58.5 | talking about their experiences online over the weekend and sharing mainly on social media |
1:04.0 | but also people writing about their experiences too. |
1:07.2 | I want to give you the opportunity today on the programme to say where you are with this |
1:10.8 | if it affects you. Of course, this is mainly about office jobs. |
1:14.8 | Whether you have gone back in, whether you haven't, are you doing a bit of both? |
1:18.6 | Have you been forced to go back in as it was before? |
1:21.4 | And perhaps that's made you think differently about whether it's better, |
1:24.6 | whether it's not what works. |
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