“Govt-backed loans for smallest businesses hit £21bn”

Jun 6, 2020 | In the news

Is it too easy to get a ‘bounce-back’ loan? A few online questions, click the button and unless (or perhaps even if) your business is dealing spice in Wandsworth, up to £50k pops into your account next day. Many have told me that even if you don’t need it, it’s almost rude not to; it’s free money for a year and a bargain thereafter. And I’d guess there’ll be as many who don’t as do know what they’re letting themselves in for and will struggle to find the £50k or repayments thereof in future years. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t, but I guess if even half of it  keeps half the firms going and spending, it will be half the money well-spent.

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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.