This falls under a similar banner to the social care debacle. The railways were nationalised here and all over Europe after the war with the best of intentions. Changes of government meant cost cutting, eventually to the nth degree then re-privatisation which has eventually reminded us why they were de-privatised in the first place. In the Europe whose smooth-running services we all admire, they’re still state-owned. But they have higher taxes than us. You pays your money…
“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.
