“TSB boss Paul Pester to step down after IT fiasco”

Sep 4, 2018 | In the news

OK, I said back in April that TSB’s Chief Exec wouldn’t last until the end of the week. He’s toughed it for another four months, even braving a caning from the kind souls of the Treasury Select Committee. Would it be cynical of me to suggest that, had he fallen on his sword too soon, his mega-payoff might not have been so mega? And that he’ll have no trouble walking into a few, reasonably-well remunerated non-executive positions on various boards of directors? My advice would be, in the words of Woody Allen, to Take the Money and Run.

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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.