Told my staff they can work from home if they wish. Those that drive in really should come to work. Their cars will be air conditioned as are our offices.
Unfortunately, Covid has brought out the worst in the (sadly and generally, bone-idle and entitled) English. Now used to “working” from home - which gives questionable results - particularly from millennials.
The UK may grind to a halt due to its workforce’s reluctance to work.
I dealt with an industrial laundrette very recently. It has roughy 100 employees. Only the director was English. He complained that obtaining staff was difficult for the unskilled work and that on the very rare occasion he had an English interviewee, they inevitably didn’t want to work more than 16 hours as it impacted on their ability to claim benefits.
My staff include two Cypriots, a Lithuanian, a Kosovan, a Pakistani, two Indian, a Portuguese a German and five English. Take a wild guess which of the staff have had Covid three times or more, which have had warnings when it transpired they had done nothing but Google how to win at various pc games throughout an entire working week. Guess which ones have had to re-sit exams on at least one occasion for want of putting in the study effort.
I can’t comment on Scotland, Wales and NI, but from my experiences, I think England is in trouble and our workforce/youngsters need a wake up call.
