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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly and Sarah Butler

Former M&S boss says working from home is ‘not doing proper work’

Stuart Rose
Stuart Rose sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

The former boss of M&S and Asda has said working from home has meant a generation of people is “not doing proper work”.

Stuart Rose, who was the chief executive of M&S for six years until 2011 and then the executive chair of its supermarket rival Asda until November, claimed working from home had harmed employee productivity – a longstanding problem in the world’s wealthier economies.

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