During the lockdown, as an IT Contractor I've been pretty busy creating the right secure WfH set ups for various companies. SO MANY now see the opportunities. They were always there.
It *should* be the new norm if only companies have the courage to embrace it.
Companies located themselves before in cities for historical reasons that no longer apply, technological reasons that have been overcome, and financial reasons that now cannot be sustained.
In particular was the story I got from an optical company marketing executive after a months experience.
"I used to commute nearly 3 & 1/2 hours a day. Stressful, noisy, unreliable. Now I get the same work done, maybe even better. But now I get to see my kids ten times more."
"At lunchtime I sometimes walk the dog in the park. Can't do that down Leadenhall Street or Canary Wharf. I clear my head and attack the afternoon. I got my life balance back."
Working from home, efficiently, securely can be done with a £200 (or much less) mini server, and commonly available open-source software.
99% of the UK has network speeds sufficient to do 99% of the work.
There is no longer a 'cost' nor 'speed' argument against WfH.
So if your employer uses 'cost' 'efficiency' or 'speed' as arguments, you have your counters.
They'll have to expend energy and time to come up with new arguments against WfH.
BTW, if you're using SalesForce, the market leader in #CRM ... it has most of this OUT OF THE BOX.
Because we’re looking at the problem from the wrong end.
The small boats are not a crisis, only in that they add to the real problems:
- The rapidly growing shortage of hotels for asylum seekers;
- The interminably long delay for those people to have their applications processed.
Solve THOSE two problems … in an efficient, humane and legal manner … and the actual boats become a minor distraction, easily handled through a better process.
In addition, you solve the shortage of hotels … by solving the delays to processing of asylum applications.
By the way, in #London, The #ULEZ Expansion being implemented by Mayor Khan ...
... is by stipulation of the Tory Government in 2020.
1/3.
Precisely, by Transport Minister (at the time) Grant Shapps, to Sadiq Kjhan, 14/05/2022, Section 12, Part (h) .. as a part of the Central Government TFL Pricing Agreement.
2/3.
More precisely, this letter :
(This is why Shapps has been so silent on the matter)
So a Care ‘Charity’ set up by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had 1 employee, who not only had never worked in the arena, but was a former employee of Jeremy Hunt who resigned in disgrace, and who’s now re-employed by Jeremy Hunt, and received 2/3 of the charity’s income as salary.
In addition the ''charity' pledged to use donated funds to research and report on Patient Care.
Research completed : Unknown.
Reports published : Zero.
For a few weeks I have been evaluating @bikemap and @komoot as cycle mapping applications.
One or t’other, not both, would get my hard earned monthly fee.
Well, a decision has been made.
Actually, enforced upon me by an unethical business practice.
Having used both of the free versions, I had decided to go with @bikemap, until today when having not used the app for a couple of weeks I discovered something absolutely atrocious.
@jdpoc I created a number of routes on @bikemap, and followed them on the cycle for navigation purposes but I now find suddenly that that feature has been suddenly withdrawn.
THIS DAY in 1933, a refugee arrived at #Dover with a patchy work history and no ties to this country, fleeing oppression from the #Nazi regime who had burned his books and turned his home into a #Nazi Youth Centre.
The UK Authorities misplaced his papers.
His landing card - his only documentation at the time - was lost and only rediscovered in 2011.
The Daily Mail urged readers to boycott his lectures raising money for other refugees from the #Nazi regime.
Apparently he wasn't good enough, and didn't qualify for refugee status, him being only a Nobel Prize winning world-acclaimed scientist and renowned Professor.