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Asda Moves Towards “Hybrid Working” for Office Staff

by Michael Curzon
2 July 2021 11:26 AM

Asda has announced that its 4,000 head office staff will be allowed to work where they like in the near future, becoming the latest business giant to move away from office-based work amid suggestions that “hybrid working”, where staff work from home some of the time, could become the norm post-lockdown. BBC News has the story.

The supermarket group said staff at Asda House in Leeds and George House in Leicester can choose where they work.

Around 4,000 staff work at both offices, with the majority based in Leeds.

England is set to lift final Covid measures on July 19th and many businesses have indicated they will continue to allow flexible working.

However, not all companies plan to embrace a hybrid approach. Goldman Sachs International has said it wants people to come back into the office once restrictions have ended.

Asda said its new approach “will encourage colleagues to select the best location to do their job”, including home, head office or even a store or depot.

However, the company said the model would not work for all employees, such as those who need to have close contact with colleagues, like, for example, people who work in training.

But it said staff also “have the flexibility to work from home when it is more productive to do so, such as tasks that involve planning or research”. 

Asda’s plan is similar to one adopted by Nationwide, which will allow the building society’s 13,000 office employees to “work anywhere”. 

Nationwide is closing three offices in Swindon and the 3,000 staff based at those sites can either move to the nearby headquarters, work from home or mix the two. Some employees may be able to work from a local High Street branch if they prefer, instead of travelling to an office.

The “hybrid working” approach is likely favoured because of its cost-cutting benefits. However, some are concerned that working from home reduces levels of productivity.

The BBC News report is worth reading in full.

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Lurker
Lurker
11 months ago

So as the dominos continue to slowly fall and vaccine compensation and ongoing treatment bills rise who’s going to be the first to revoke the indemnity given to these companies?

Starmer has an open goal as he could say that he was only supportive based on the (limited) information the Tories were passing on.

Also if depopulation is the long term agenda what better way of achieving it than bankrupting major drug producers by passing on these bills

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

There appears to be a red arrow troll on this site.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

I believe Starmer, with the WHO and Blair far up his b******* would instigate harsher lockdowns and “vaccine” mandates at the drop of a hat come the next “pandemic” of fear.

Bankrupting, although I prefer the word liquidating, all of bigpharma would imho, actually benefit the whole of mankind – especially the so called civilised west.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
11 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

I believe that too. The whole system is broken and corrupted and the so called ‘regulators’ like MHSA need to be shut down and rebuilt from scratch.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  Valerie_London

How about shut down and not rebuilt?

100% of all government and its agencies are influenced and corrupted for the benefit of an interest group. Every single one Without exception.

The fewer of them we have the better.

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Lurker
Lurker
11 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

I’m sure he would…

However the “political” decision here and now is to revoke it and blame it on the Tories…

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Agreed, and so would the Raven Pub Landlord in Bath. Starmer showed unwilling to listen to his concerns despite just citing official CFRs.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

I suspect Starmer and his hench women were as fully informed as Ministers.

Last edited 11 months ago by EppingBlogger
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I agree. Given that they all shit in the same pot it is unreasonable to believe otherwise.

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RTSC
RTSC
10 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Of course they were. The Leader of the Opposition is briefed on any significant risk.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

“…if depopulation is the long term agenda what better way of achieving it than bankrupting major drug producers by passing on these bills.”

Which implies that drug producers provide major health benefits to society. As far as I am concerned we are now at the point where the jury is out on that point.

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
11 months ago

So all of us who were branded anti vaccers (i spell it that way) and conspiracy theorists were right all along. A common theme.

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D J
D J
11 months ago

Covid 19 and the response to it is the most important event to happen in the world in the last decade,and politicians are almost entirely silent about it during a general election campaign.
Andrew Bridgen has been a lonely and brave voice in Parliament. His reward was expulsion from the Conservative Party. He deserves our support as an independent in North West Leicestershire.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
11 months ago
Reply to  D J

It seems difficult but hopefully not impossible for independents like him to win seats, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  Valerie_London

With reference to my reply to D J, if Bridgen can take his seat as an independent it will be a heartening sign that things are going to get better for us. And if he loses it to some Labour or Conservative cut out, then it’ll be a bad sign.

One to watch for sure.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

If Andrew Bridgen loses his seat it will be confirmation of massive vote rigging. It does happen and only idiots believe otherwise.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Good two hour interview with AB. Resistance GB. Interesting when he talks about losing his properties to HS2 and the scam that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidSG5nMkW8

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Thanks Ron. Yes a good interview, so good in fact that I watched it end to end in one sitting.

Confirmation if any were needed of the appalling level of corruption in which this country is mired.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  D J

Last decade?

Let’s see what the legacy of it is, but to me it’s looking like the most important event to happen in the world since WWII, whichever way things go.

It either marks the end of liberal democracy and the beginning of a global totalitarian era or it’s a moment of awakening that propels us to a more advanced state of freedom and self governance.

Impossible to see at this stage which way it’s going. But what you can be sure of is that things are not going to settle back into what they were before covid. That’s for sure.

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JohnK
JohnK
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Quite likely true, although it might depend on where one is – e.g. across the pond they would (perhaps) take into account Vietnam. That said, re Bridgen, the only other MP that achieved an independent in such circumstances was Martin Bell, in Knutsford, who won in 1997 – the rest of that year’s election is obviously well known.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago

Regulators aren’t there to protect the public. They are there to promote the interests of the industry they are regulating.

And you know what, I don’t want the government to protect me. Whenever it pretends to do so, it usually does the exact opposite.

Thanks but I can protect myself.

The free market generally does a perfectly good job of weeding out bullshit products and services and making the good ones thrive. And the beauty of a free market that is allowed to function normally is that it cannot be manipulated by a company.

We don’t need any regulators. We just need the free market to be left to function properly.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

The sewage & water systems need regulation, or more competition. They are in a real state in some places and have seen sewage in fields myself.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
11 months ago

For Pfizer any settlement will take years and will simply be accounted for as a cost of doing business. They made $100bn in a year from the clot shot so even a $1-2bn settlement (dragged out for a decade) probably won’t unduly worry them. Only serious jail time for senior execs will make them think twice next time

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Absolutely true.

But a court decision against them would be very useful for arguing against the whole covd response and in general for the future.

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago

Civil suits to follow against politicians and bureaucrats?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  JXB

That won’t be allowed. The whole charade would collapse.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
10 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

If we choose, and pay, there is no way to legally stop it. However “they” would find ways to make it impossibly expensive.

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johnbuk
johnbuk
10 months ago

I would suggest there may be enough evidence for a criminal case against the Directors. After all they would have “signed off” the corporate stance on these issues knowing full well they were not being truthful.

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RTSC
RTSC
10 months ago

“Regulators and public health bodies are no longer protectors; increasingly, they are the enemies of patient safety.”

Yes. And they seem to be proud of that fact. June Raine, head of the MHRA and supposed to protect the public from dangerous medical products, boasted that the so-called Regulator was now an ENABLER for Big Pharma.

“In Dr Raine’s words, this is how she deliberately set out to transform the MHRA’s role (my bold): ‘We tore up the rule book, and we allowed companies to immediately start juxtaposing not sequential phases of clinical trials, but overlapping, beginning the next one before the previous had been finished. And that large-scale manufacture being prepared, at risk. We did not know if any of these vaccines would be effective.

She should be charged with Malfeasance in Public Office.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-doctor-who-turned-her-health-watchdog-into-a-covid-vaccine-lapdog/

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-mhra-the-watchdog-covering-up-the-truth-about-vaccine-deaths-and-injuries/

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