Why the obsession with ‘Saving Christmas’. Without wishing to sound like Scrooge’s younger cousin the Grinch, there are many aspects which I suspect many would prefer not to save. Excruciating drinks with neighbours you only see once a year, sending 00’s of cards (surely they’re infectious?), office parties (of course), Christmas shopping which involves actually going to shops. The good bits we can keep. Like watching Love Actually for the 20th time and listening to Wizzard for the 2000th, not working, drinking, eating and board games. Or is it just me? Probably.
“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.
