Even (or especially) the interviewers sound sick of the stock replies: ‘Get it done, oven-ready deal for the turkeys who voted for Christmas’ (last bit was mine); ‘We’re spending/going to spend record amounts, safe with us, no more kids on trollies, hands off, Trump’. It’s been enough to make me nostalgic for the ‘Hard Working Families’ of elections gone by. If the booze wasn’t so expensive, I’d move to Finland…
“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.
