Ex-Asda boss Lord Rose: "Working from home is 'not proper work'"

Working from home is creating a generation who are "not doing proper work", Lord Rose has told BBC Panorama.

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00:00Hello, my name is Greg Wright. I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post and

00:05here are your headlines for today. Lord Rose, who is a former boss of Marks and Spencer

00:10and Asda, has warned that working from home is creating a generation who are not doing

00:15proper work. Lord Rose told BBC's Panorama that homeworking was part of the UK economy's

00:23general decline and employees' productivity was suffering. Lord Rose told the BBC that

00:31we've regressed in this country in terms of working practices, productivity and in terms

00:36of the country's wellbeing, I think, by 20 years in the last four. So criticism there

00:42from Lord Rose of the working from home culture. My name's Greg Wright. I'm the Deputy Business

00:48Editor of the Yorkshire Post.