Work from home is here to stay – and a productivity boom is about to be unleashed

The global energy giant BP has told around 25,000 of its staff that working from home is now permanent. This is confirmation that ‘home-work’ is now globally locked in and not a temporary Covid ‘thing’. 

BP is selling offices and moving to smaller premises as staff move to working two days and more from home. This is evidence of a working revolution. It’s a revolution that will throw the legal, academic, tax and political work–regulation establishment into utter confusion.   

It makes the recent UK court decision to declare Uber drivers to be a ‘little bit’ employees combined with destructive self-employed tax laws, dangerous for the UK economy. It makes the Californian law making…