Perhaps the notion that at least one ‘working day’ of most advisers’ weeks was spent on the golf course is now apocryphal. I can finally admit (now that my father is no longer with us) that I really don’t like golf clubs in either sense of the word, and so my week has always stretched to five days and beyond. But perhaps lockdown and home-working has proven Parkinson’s law (‘work expands to fill the time available for its completion’), and, with appropriate self-motivation, many jobs can be done in less time. However, many can’t. Care workers and others will be screaming ‘get out of your cosy office and come into the real world’. Less scrupulous employers will see it as a way of cutting overheads. But it’s a thought. And a start.
“Letter of authority: Why now is the right time for change”
This may sound like a non-issue from outside the world-of-financial-advice bubble. It is the bain, however, of the daily working lives of many of us, particularly of those paid by we advisers to do the dirty work of dealing with the many providers with whom we have to work.