Roxy Jacenko has slammed fellow business owner Jane Lu over her working from home policies at Showpo.
The 44-year-old PR queen expressed her disapproval of the CEO’s decision to have employees work in the office only two out of five days per week.
Speaking on The Lazy CEO Podcast with Jane Lu, Roxy emphasised her belief that having staff present in the office five days a week would foster greater collaboration among the team.
‘You’ve got a whole team out there. Get them here five days a week, not f**king two days a week,’ she said.
‘The only way to work the team is with the team. And I’m sorry, I don’t believe in this work from home.’
Jane acknowledged that when she had her team in the Showpo office full-time, she noticed that more ideas were ‘bounced off’ and exchanged among colleagues.
‘Before Covid, I was more the same age as everyone. We were together five days. [There was] so much more collaboration,’ she said.
‘Everyone just presents ideas to me. There’s no brainstorm.’
Roxy Jacenko (left) has slammed fellow business owner Jane Lu (right) over her working from home policies at Showpo
‘Yeah, but that’s your fault. You’re the boss,’ Roxy quipped. ‘You’re not together, you’re not on the floor with them… only two days a week.’
Australian online fashion retailer Showpo was founded in 2010 by Jane and has a target market of young women.
The CEO has a net worth of approximately $55million.
Elsewhere in the chat, Roxy revealed how she gained 18kg after moving to Singapore in 2023 with her husband Oliver Curtis and their two children.
The 44-year-old PR queen expressed her disapproval of the CEO’s decision to have employees work in the office only two out of five days per week
Jane acknowledged that when she had her team in the Showpo office full-time, she noticed that more ideas were ‘bounced off’ and exchanged among colleagues
The entrepreneur settled in to the Southeast Asian country in July last year after selling her family mansion in Sydney’s Vaucluse and shutting down some of her businesses.
She admitted she stacked on the kilos after relocating because of her lifestyle changes.
Roxy explained she spent most of her time eating, drinking and going shopping and this led to an 18kg weight gain.
‘Housewifery was not for me. I just shopped and shopped. It was the most boring existence,’ Roxy, who announced her return to PR in September, said.
‘I consumed 18kgs of alcohol in a year and realised this is not for me so I got back to work.’
She also discussed the terrifying moment she overdosed on Ozempic in an effort to lose weight.
Roxy revealed she’d taken four times the recommended dosage before she suffered from severe vomiting and non-stop shaking.
‘I put so much weight on. I would have to undo my jeans when I sat in the car so I got sucked in by it,’ she explained.
‘I bought it, I tried it. I took four times the amount in the first go.’
Roxy continued by saying she’s ‘so sick of people’ who deny using Ozempic, adding: ‘I call a spade a spade on my platform and I don’t care.’
The PR Queen previously said she thought she was going to ‘die’ after taking one milligram of the diabetic treatment, which was four times the amount prescribed to her by a doctor.
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