This virus has had some strange effects on all kinds of things. Piers Morgan was waffling on today and saying that they'd had to cut a third of studio staff, to social distance, and there were only around a dozen people there. My first thought was that there's normally 20 people too many. The interviews, with politicians, journalists, etc are held, quite happily, from their home offices and are no worse for that. Seriously, what's the point of them travelling to the studio to make identical points ... ... and why do reporters usually have to stand outside a building to report on what's happening inside it. "Here I am standing outside the hospital, in pouring rain to tell you that, somewhere in this massive building, is Prince Philip who's on his third day of having a routine operation on his toe ... sources tell me it's the big toe, right foot."
Speaking to a neighbour today who works in mining recruitment and he was telling me that his firm have seen a marked rise in productivity due to allowing their staff to work from home. I guess that the initial outlay of forking out for a home office is fairly insignificant by comparison to the savings that they would make on renting office space in the CBD. I, on the other hand, don’t get that luxury and I still have to drive to work.
Don’t be daunted by it mate, embrace the challenge and you’ll probably end up loving your new way of life.
