I’m no expert. I used to be a school governor, so that proves it. But I have been a student and am the parent of one. I was good at exams; but we’ve all known bright people, good at everything all year in class, who couldn’t hack them. Equally, there were plenty of teachers by whom I would not have wanted to be assessed. Terrifying either way; and then a few years after you leave school, you realise that no one in the real world has shown the least interest in, nor checked, your exam grades anyway…
“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.
