Interesting discussion yesterday at a seminar organised by top ethical managers EQ Investments. Do you give companies whom many would not expect to see in this type of fund the benefit of the doubt If other stuff they do is good? Like those ‘Big Pharma(ceutical)s’, who charge too much for life-saving drugs and allegedly test them on Africans; but whose research can and does save lives and have a Positive Impact. Answers on a postcard, please.
“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.
