“Keep calm and work from home during coronavirus, European banks tell workers”

Mar 10, 2020 | In the news

Pop philosopher Alain de Botton says that working in offices is not good for us. However apparently relaxed they are (in my experience, the ‘relaxed’ ones are worst) the inevitably-competitive dynamics make them less-than-happy places. Try using a random table in an open-plan-hot-desk office. Whichever you choose will be someone’s territory. Good news, then, that at www.pjamesfs.com we all work remotely and don’t have to see or talk to one another. It’s the future. Most likely the mandatory future in the weeks to come.

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“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.