I watched the wonderful film ‘Ladybird’ again (for film buffs, Oscar-nominated, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut). It’s a coming of age story about a girl who abandons her best friends to hang out with the cool crowd, whom she later realises are shallow, empty and don’t really like or care about her. So she goes back to her old friends, who are only too happy to have her back. Anyway, it’s out on DVD (kids, that’s how we used to watch films before Netflix and Amazon…)
“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.
