“The post-lockdown three-tier system explained in Tamil”

Dec 1, 2020 | In the news

As we move into Zone 2, I’ve been trying to make sense of the rules. Can my daughter’s friend come for a sleepover? What if they camp in the garden? Can they meet for a coffee or a scotch egg? Imagine if, as many a Tory backbencher seems to wish, every constituency had its own Zone. Could they then meet for a slap up lunch in a  Zone 1 Cotswolds, if she was able to leave Zone 3 and travel through Zone 2  to get there. Maybe we’d need then need a Zone 4 and 5. Anyway. Follow the link for an explanation in Tamil. Which might be easier, even if you don’t speak it.

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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.