What’s the first thing you’ll do, many ask, when this is all over? What are you missing the most, apart from, of course, seeing family in the flesh. Many say going to the pub or out for a meal. Neither’s ever as good as you expect, in my experience. Heading for the sun on holiday? Nice when you’re there, but thought of an airport is depressing even now. It’s the less frequent stuff I miss. Going to London once or twice a month, to the cinema about as often and Cornwall from time to time. And Waitrose, of course.
“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.
