“The Coronavirus Crisis and Western Cultural Arrogance”

Mar 16, 2020 | In the news

I went into a very small local bakery and coffee shop this morning. It was rammed, all tables, less than a foot apart, full and a queue at the counter. I retreated to my office. If that’s being repeated around even a bit of the country, we’re stuffed. Does no one listen to the news? In our weather-obsessed country, it’s surely like going out in shorts and t-shirt when a blizzard’s forecast. But, as always, we Brits know best. We had an empire, for goodness sake.

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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.