‘Golf course never been so busy!’ Charlie Mullins blasts home workers: ‘You can’t trust people’

It was revealed last week that Downing Street is set to issue new guidance to all Whitehall departments in a bid to end “Tuesday to Thursday” working, a culture which has developed since the pandemic.

The Daily Mail revealed that Paymaster General Jeremy Quin will lead the push to tackle the decline in public sector productivity.

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Speaking on GB News, Mullins bemoaned the “unfair system” that has arisen as a result of more people working from home.

“We can’t train people, youngsters are going to get bad work ethics because they’re not mixing with people”, he said.

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“You’re getting a situation where many workers are trying to work from home in the same room, all these distractions.

“Everyone you speak to who works from home seem to think they’re more productive. They’re not more productive, the golf courses are packed at the moment.

“It’s ruining youngsters’ futures. They’re never going to be able to get a job and say they’ve had work experience, from home they won’t get that.

“Youngsters are going to see their parents working from home and think that’s the future. You’re going to get mental health problems from this.

“You can’t trust people to work from home. Possibly 10 per cent, yes. It’s a selfish thing people are doing, the only ones who should be working from home are those who have no choice, ie they have a disability, or they have someone to look after.”

Political commentator Matthew Stadlen hit back at Mullins, suggesting there are “advantages and disadvantages” to working from home.

“The economy doesn’t seem to have been too badly disrupted”, he said.

“You can avoid the commute, you can save sometimes two or three hours a day from working at home.

“There’s a strong argument that flexibility is a good thing. You do lose some human interaction and creativity.

“You’re sucking the life out of cities, that’s possibly true, but the neighbourhoods will benefit.”

Government officials are reportedly considering enforcing a set number of days that officials have to work in the office, which would be fixed at around four per week.

Ministers may have to deal with pushback from union leaders as it could require changes to civil servants’ contracts.

Quin is reportedly open to the idea of some jobs being carried out remotely, but is of the opinion that most people perform better in the office.

For public bodies, including the civil service, output has dropped 5.7 per cent.

Output from business, however, now stands at 1.3 per cent higher than it was pre-Covid.

With working remote being a widespread phenomenon during the Covid-19 pandemic, many workers became if the opinion that going into the office was not necessary all of the time.