“Hospitality worker wages rise as sector faces staffing crisis, new data shows”

Jun 16, 2021 | In the news

This can be a positive or a negative, depending on which side of the (still live) Brexit argument you fall. Either, ‘told you so, now see how much the price of a meal out will be’, or, ‘good, they’ll get a decent wage at last, restaurants and hotels have been run on the cheap for too long’. Remember, however, that rising incomes are the other cause of inflation, the main one in the 1970s heyday of the unions. So could we be heading for the perfect storm?

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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.