“Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to ‘work anywhere”

Mar 26, 2021 | In the news

Well, good for them, I say. Firstly for bothering to ask their staff what they think. Over 90% want to either work from home full-time or have the option to mix and match. Secondly, for trusting them to get on with it and realising that, actually, good people will work as hard or harder at home; and those that doss around on the internet all day would do that wherever they are and will get found out just as easily. It’s the future. It’s green, and it’s digital.

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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.