Dyson tells many of UK staff to work in office even after plan B guidance change

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  1. Dyson are attempting to make their workers work in a dangerous environment and in direct contradiction to the government guidelines and potentially in breach of the law… Say it ain’t so.

    Of course they will face no repercussions for this action

  2. Seriously, would you expect anything else from a company that’s got such a cunty reputation?

  3. “Dyson is asking select groups to continue attending our campuses for practical, confidentiality and security reasons”

    My company works on projects for nuclear power stations and naval subs but we’re still encouraged to work from home. Vacuums aren’t exactly top secret.

  4. Mr Dyson is infamous in the engineering world for being one of the biggest tossers imaginable, and almost insufferable as a boss. Not surprised their approach to COVID reflects that

  5. Dyson can go fuck themselves. Will never, ever purchase anything of theirs ever again.

  6. My employer (automotive manufacturer) is doing the same for Engineering, Procurement, Cost Estimation and Finance. All of which can function either entirely from home, or (in the case of Engineering) on skeleton crew. I don’t blame them so much as I blame the instruction from the Government. “Work from home where possible but if you have to go into the office you can” might as well have been “fuck it, it’s up to employers”. Obviously employers are going to have people in where possible. Dyson is a cunt, the company is nightmare to work for, the products are shit, and the attitude of the industry of “bums on seats = working” is archaic and outdated, but Government advice has warped to suit this mentality at the expense of public health so as not to upset businesses. This is just a symptom of poor leadership again, and Dyson shouldn’t be the focus here.

  7. It’s amazing to see how fast Dyson’s reputation has fallen over the years. Twenty years ago, owning a Dyson was a point of pride for many, as they were top of the line vacuums with innovative technology. Everyone raves about Shark and Miele these days, even Henry is better than Dyson. His own personal reputation is going down the drain with his products.

  8. It should be pointed out that before the pandemic Dyson actually had a really solid working from home policy, which they canned *during* the pandemic because James found out about it for the first time and decided to scrap it. I won’t put the blame entirely on him, he gets enabled by a lot of shitty upper managers, but he is an awful leader.

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    >Dyson is asking select groups to continue attending our campuses for practical, confidentiality and security reasons

    It should *also* be pointed out that this select group was pretty much the entirety of the engineering team, most managers, and anyone even associated with upcoming or new release products. Its hardly a select group.

  9. This is disappointing news. It is important that everyone follows the guidance from the government in order to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

  10. Yeah, it’s shit, but at the end of the day it’s not illegal since WFH is only guidance and isn’t law. It should be law with exceptions for certain types of jobs and industries.

  11. Honestly fuck Dyson. I went to Miele and have never looked back. Shark are pretty good too. GTech seem fine as well.

  12. Because once again the government used bullshit language of “do it if you can” not “you must work from home”

    It leaves it up to the greedy bosses to decide, and they dont care about the plebs that work for them or their lives.

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