“Who is worst hit by the decline in cash?”

May 3, 2019 | In the news

Of course, I’m down with the kids, but I do now find myself venturing out walletless more often than not now I I’m confident my ‘phone-pay-thing works. Is it such a bad thing? I’m sure there was outrage when banknotes were introduced in the 16-somethings, even though there were no pensions to be collected at the post office, because there were no post offices. Coins long ago stopped being worth anything; and if the internet and everything else goes belly-up, we’ll be back to bartering vegetables from our allotments anyway.

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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.