“How long are you going to live?”

May 18, 2018 | In the news

If you find all of the above a little depressing, here’s something which cheered me up no end over my morning croissants: the BBC’s life expectancy calculator. Click through to have a go and see how many more Eurovisions you can see us lose. For me, it’s 22, of which 17 will be healthy. Of course, due to the law of averages, it could be 42, with 10 unhealthy ones, or an hour, with a dodgy 15 minutes. My first thought? Another glass of rosé, please.

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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.