This has nothing to do with financial advice, but a lot to do with life and parenting. If you have children, you’ll know that they don’t give a stuff about this stuff and actually don’t find (in the words of Blur, of whom they probably won’t have heard) ’girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls’ a problem at all; which I think is a sign of both the bravest of brave new worlds and of how far we’ve come in just my generation. Rock on, C of E.
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
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.
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis. There’s a whole generation who may never be able to afford to buy their own homes.