You can’t keep a good (or bad) company down. The fag-makers looked doomed when pubs banned smokers and we all started giving up. They soon had a new lease of life, so to speak, from zillions of dedicated smokers in Russia and China. And now, you have to say very cleverly, they’re jumping on, or gently lying down and chilling in, the cannabis bandwagon. Tobacco companies have traditionally been excluded, of course, from ethical funds; which could be a future dilemna for a certain demographic of ley-line-dwelling investor…
“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.
