I was about to write about the lack of financial advice available for those that most need it, that those who do need it would be the last to seek or find it and websites that purport to offer free advice take no responsibility for it and just want £s in their funds. But I was brought down to earth, by this reminder that one of the richest (for the moment) countries in the world has so many who can’t afford to eat and a pretty rubbish safety net for the worst off. Shame on us.
“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.
