Talk about fiddling around at the edges/while Rome burns/diversion tactics, take your pick. Don’t worry, Theresa, about whether waiters get their tips or not. Worry instead whether there will be any waiters left this time next year. More tips won’t make more Brits, who think they should be waited upon rather than waiting, take up the jobs likely to be abandoned by those from Europe who really want and need them…
“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.
