“Just half of Brits would split wealth equally among children”

Nov 18, 2021 | In the news, Wills

With some exceptions, most parents want to ensure they treat their children equally. The problem is, if they use their wills to level up who’s had what, their definition of equally may differ from that of their kids. Some will without doubt feel more equal than others and in many families, a will can lead to open warfare and woulds which never heal. The answer is to make sure there are no surprises and no dramatic, gothic-novel, gasp of surprise-style reading-of-the-will ceremonies. Easier said than done, as it involves the sort of frank conversations at which we Brits are generally rubbish. Or leave too late.

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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.