LONDON: It’s increasingly common for clients to call Neil Moodie’s hair salon in advance to check the Wi-Fi. “Everybody brings their laptop and does their work, especially when they get their colour done. [I’ve] had a couple of people do a Zoom meeting when they’re here with the camera on.
” WFH - or working from the hairdressers - has its stresses. “It means our internet has to be perfect,” says Moodie, whose salon is based in Spitalfields, London. “Which it isn’t and it’s a nightmare.
” As the WFH trend becomes more popular, some United Kingdom salons are incorporating desks and quiet areas for people to work remotely while enjoying salon services. Brooke Evans, owner of a salon based in Ironbridge in Shropshire, says that a significant number of clients work while their colour is processing. “With this in mind, we installed USB ports and extra sockets at every station from when we opened.
Since then have added a coffee (and) bar area and extra seating for those clients who need a quieter area to work when making calls or video calls and just a more comfortable space to work at a laptop.” Working from the hairdressers recently went viral on TikTok after a public relations executive in the United States posted her FaceTime conversation with a Gen Z employee who was having her hair washed. The young assistant told Newsweek: “As long as you’re getting your work done, I don’t see the harm.
” Her manager seemed to take it in good faith: “It doe.