We’ll usually ask if you have lasting powers of attorney in place, and if not, recommend you see a solicitor to sort them. Those who’ve had to use them for parents or relatives are usually on the case. More so anyone who’s had to wade through the legal process for someone who needs but doesn’t have them. It’s complicated, takes ages and can be both expensive and upsetting. You can DIY them yourself online, but most who start get bogged down and either never finish, or stop at the final stage of getting them registered. Well, we don’t need them yet, do we? Let’s hope not. But who knows? So anything which makes it easier would be great.
“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.
