Here’s a warning of the consequences of a hard-line immigration policy, and a comeuppance, at least of a a sort, for the Saudi regime. It turns out that, yes, your ‘own’ population are not so keen to take up all the low-paid vacancies left when you throw out your cheap labour. And that it’s not just those you want to get rid of who leave if you establish a Theresa May-style ‘hostile environment’. Lesson learned? I doubt it.
“The working-from-home illusion fades”
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.
