“Tory rebels stage revolt over Covid tier system”

Dec 3, 2020 | In the news

Before you say ‘easy for you, Mr Financial Adviser, working from home, Zooming away all day’, the rest of the family work either in hospitality (3) or retail (2). But really. If those ‘rebel’ Tory MPs had voted against Brexit, they’d have been out on their ears. If they think the ‘every town for itself’ approach will work, perhaps they should spend a week or two in North Dakota, which now has the highest level of Covid deaths in the world. Plenty of other mask-refusenik states, alas, are available.

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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.