“Confusion and concern over back-to-work advice”

May 11, 2020 | In the news

The problem, of course with the ‘go back to work if you think it’s a good idea’ advice is that one man’s ‘common sense’ is another’s ‘you must be joking’. I’m not an expert (unlike most people these days) but it feels scarily like carnage waiting to happen, especially in London. All employers, I’d say, should be checking their liability insurance very carefully. If there’s an outbreak which can be blamed of a faulty mask or dodgy distancing, you can bet it won’t be Boris coughing up the compensation.

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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.