“A dubious fashion for unpaid interns”

Sep 24, 2018 | In the news

Apparently, graduates of fashion colleges are being made to work as unpaid interns for months, sometimes years (‘it’s lucky my parents have a house in central London from which I can walk to work’, said one). I read this on the same day that the Migration Advisory Committee recommended that low-skilled immigrants should be restricted or banished. This will lead to a shortage of fruit and broccoli pickers in Norfolk, which is, of course, easily accessible from Liverpool Street. Not rocket science, is it…

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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.