We all know, live with or may be, people whose homes and lives seem chaotic. Their holidays are booked a week in advance, which means they pay top dollar. If they’re clients, they present us with a year’s unopened post to sort when we meet. They have ‘it may look a mess but I know just where everything is’ desks. Their opposites will have booked separate component parts of three holidays a year online, confirmed by a precise email trail. They send a list of questions before we meet, having neatly filed everything to leave their desks clear. And of course buy Christmas cards in the January sales. Who’s lcoping coping best with Covid-World? Probably the chaos-merchants. Provided they remember their masks.
“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.
