Did you hear the tale of the man who left his friends and family to seek his fortune in the wider world? He argued with them from time to time, of course, and a big part of him felt there were fortunes to be made elsewhere. He found his own little farm, settled with his wife and kids, but there were no new, friends to be found. Disease, pestilence and hard times followed and he ran out of money. Rather than borrow to sow for the following year, he pulled in the horns and cut back, as his bank manager suggested he should. His bank manager, of course, had a good job and would earn a big bonus. Sadly, our hero and his family starved and perished. Others did borrow and invest for the future, were reelected (sorry, spoiler) and flourished. The moral of our story: politicians never learn, the markets are not always right and neither was Brexit. I’d say.
“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.
