“Aviva boss Mark Wilson to get £6.5m after shock exit”

Oct 9, 2018 | In the news

When a football manager takes on a new job these days, it’s apparently the Golden Handshake’, not the Golden Hello, which is negotiated first. So if they’re sacked, they’re fine for a year or two, or in the case of we mere mortals, for ever. Maybe, then, we shouldn’t be thinking ‘nice work if you can get it’, in typical Brit style, when someone with an arguably much bigger and more important job than that of keeping a couple of dozen tattooed prima donnas in order, appears to have done the same. 

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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.