Premier League could be shutdown until September

Mar 30, 2020 | In the news

Many commentators (not the sports ones, they have nothing to do at the moment) say this new way of living will change our way of living forever. What it should change is how we value those who do the really important jobs. Of course the nurses and carers.  But also the staff at our local Coop, on minimum wage, working all hours and getting plenty of grief in return; the supermarket and Amazon deliverers on less than £1 a drop; and many others. Then let’s see how much we miss the footballers and F! Drivers, earning an average (just an average) of £1 every 30 seconds. And, yes, financial advisers, in cosy offices, able to work from home, and so not on minimum wage. Yet.

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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.