“Classified Ministry of Defence documents found at bus stop”

Jun 29, 2021 | In the news

My business has been paperless for nearly fifteen years now. Piles of post arrive from the many archaic companies with whom we deal, we scan and shred it. We ask them to email instead to save us the bother but ‘computer says no’ and has to print stuff at their end. What amazes about the secret papers story is that there were papers that could be lost. Surely there are MOD boffins who can encrypt stuff online enough to avoid it having to be taken home on the bus? Well, there are in ‘Spooks’. However, in the real world, Boris and his mates use WhatsApp because it’s more secure than government stuff. So probably not.

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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.