“Saudi exodus as 2 million expats arrested in 12 months”

Nov 22, 2018 | In the news

Here’s the sort of immigration policy some here think would be a vote-winner: to throw out all foreign workers and give their jobs to ‘our’ people. I suspect it won’t be long before the Saudi royals discover the simple truth that ‘our’ people would prefer to sit on their backsides and let someone else clean the toilets or work on building sites in 45º heat. Once again, be careful what you wish for.

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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.