Young people need to go back to the office if they want to get on, says the Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak.
He warned them in an interview with LinkedIn’s Siobhan Morrin that video conferencing was no substitute to building key long-term relationships.
In fact he felt working from home may actually hurt your career. He doubted he would have done so well if he had started his working life virtually.
Sunak explained: “I doubt I would have had those strong relationships if I was doing my summer internship or my first bit of my career over Teams and Zoom.”
“That’s why I think for young people in particular, being able to physically be in an office is valuable.”
His view is backed-up by the Hays survey at the beginning of 2021 which found that just 12% of PQs said they would like to be working fully remotely. Just 30% of trainees in the same survey said they wanted to be working half remotely and half in the office.
