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Hoping for cross party support for Living Wage plus polite political debate All views are my own & nothing to do with my employer or any charities I support
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Aug 28, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
As we approach August bank holiday Monday time for my annual reflection on hybrid working/working from home debate. Thankfully not been forced to write by @Telegraph agenda but @gabyhinsliff did make a nice nudge over air conditioning on hot days. Friday’s announcement on Energy prices will definitely have an effect on behaviours through Autumn/Winter 2022/23. There are currently a few organisations like Goldman Sachs pushing 4 days a week attendance and a few other PLCs applying 2 days a month for Head Office roles. However most organisations
Jul 30, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
@iainmartin1 newsletter to @reactionlife subscribers today is excellent - I would add 2 extra problems for Truss - Energy crisis is about supply and price All the talks is about whether households can afford a 4 fold increase in price BUT 2 of the biggest users of energy are NHS And schools Honestly I have no idea how school budgets can finance without additional funding recent teacher pay rises and looming energy cost rise. Imagine the uproar if hot school meals are stopped to save cash We will have @MarcusRashford campaign on steroids
Jun 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
From my perspective this is the behaviour of a fag end Government and culture war at its worst Any thoughts @iainmartin1 @rolandmcs @Sime0nStylites @Gilesyb @JustRowena cc @martin_finch @ChrisGiles_ In terms of myself I do running distances under half marathon distance in metric then above half marathon again metric until 20 miles Thereafter it varies based on target
Jun 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Yes because travel and hospitality degrees and qualifications really values in Europe Interesting point underpinning Fraser Nelson’s article in @Telegraph around benefit/lazy culture is that jobs in hospitality/travel etc can be done by anyone
Jan 30, 2022 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Will be fascinating to see whether this week’s Government @BorisJohnson @michaelgove levelling up paper highlights hybrid working as a great opportunity for balancing opportunity Pre #COVID19 many employers believed that working from home meant lower productivity and skiving from work The last 2 years have proved this view wrong
Jan 22, 2022 • 32 tweets • 5 min read
Having seen @FDAGenSec @PickardJE discussion/thread on working from home I hark back to past times Today we are in the position that most office workers have operated mostly or fully at home for 2 years
Jan 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Martin always raises a key point - as employers are see an increase in NI on staff salaries from 13.8% to 15.05% they are unlikely to be to afford to give a pay rise which offsets inflation Hence real wages will fall for most of the working general public with the NI increase for Employers being a further dent in take home pay
May 9, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
Fascinating watching the politics and reaction since Thursday - a few thoughts The bounce for politicians currently in power in England, Scotland and Wales from vaccines not surprising and reminds me of Falklands effect for Thatcher
Mar 13, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I am reposting my thread from last August as I can see that certain parts of media plus politicians with values based in the last century are starting a campaign against hybrid working The reality is that we have just lived through a speeded up digital revolution
Mar 13, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
@DavidHenigUK highlights confusion in @thetimes today around good news re vaccine rollout and no downside of reduction in EU trade. This is because journalists not thinking through what is structural and what is timing consequences of #COVID19 and #Brexit It is obviously good news in regards to avoiding excess deaths and opening the economy that vaccine rollout in UK going so well and hopefully other countries will catch up
Mar 12, 2021 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
In late 2017 I was asked what the most economically stupid #brexit Ministers could negotiate My response was one in which UK Goods and Agricultural exports faced significant non tariff barriers but EU imports to UK faced none. Why I was asked - answer “politicians feared queues/shortages that proved Project Fear was true - result would be UK business very challenged
Dec 20, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Tonight has encapsulated my opinion - a Minister/SPAD or Downing Street Comms person thought that calling it “mutant Covid-19” would nullify the criticism of inadequate planning and for killing Christmas But as always the Ministerial team had not thought past the headlines in UK papers the next day
Dec 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
By having a journalist as PM & Cabinet made up of former journalists/PR and SPADs you have a Government for whom words don’t mean deeply help convictions but rather words without consequence They think you can always write something different tomorrow (Boris 2 articles at a time) As someone said to me this morning the issue with Johnson’s Conservatives is that “they will always give false hope if it avoids a difficult message on trade offs at the time In the end the false hope kills all trust in the team but who cares Telegraph/Mail headlines positive
Dec 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Shutting non essential shops which are on the street and could limit customers to no more than 3 at a time are by closing going to suffer significant loss of sales, unwanted stock etc Is this necessary? Customers who wanted to buy are going to be upset and only be left with Amazon etc as a solution
Aug 30, 2020 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
Work from home debate & #Covid19UK - I am so bemused as you why things have become so emotional/illogical Under @beisgovuk guidance that offices must comply with 2m social distancing most offices have 30-50% of occupancy they had in February 2020
Aug 27, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
@CamillaTominey @FraserNelson @gordonrayner @charleshymas Not sure if you are aware but @beisgovuk guidance requires offices to apply 2m social distancing to be #Covid19UK secure (legal requirement). Offices cannot apply just 1 m social distancing 2m social distancing means that half the desks are unavailable hence maximum capacity becomes 50% in ac well designed open plan space of that available on 28th February 2020. In old badly designed buildings like you have in Whitehall you lose 70% of desk capacity
Aug 17, 2020 • 19 tweets • 2 min read
Now that Williamson/Gibb have done what they should have done pre announcement of A level results I thought I would write down the basic data questions any senior corporate manager would have asked in mid July when still masses of time to tweak things (ie not use the algorithm or the Algorithm plus compensating procedures to remove anomalies which will cause justified emotion). Once the answers are received the solution is identified based on where you know emotion will naturally arise
Aug 5, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
@beisgovuk #COVID19 secure workplace guidance is excellent for which @AlokSharma_RDG should be so proud BUT It seems Ministers in other departments who are complaining to journalists like @MrHarryCole @johnestevens @shjfrench about working from home have not read the guidance cc @dsmitheconomics @csgmoore @jburnmurdoch
Jul 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
@andrewellson @csgmoore as I have regularly said Covid-19 has been the work from home revolution that we are all living through All major Corporates will look to reduce office property estate by 30-50% - amazing addition to bottom line for CFO This does not mean every day at home but rather the offices becomes origination/collaboration/networking/training space with few desks - why deliver in the office when home so much easier all round
Mar 8, 2020 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Time for a few thoughts on EASA etc @DavidHenigUK @Usherwood @pmdfoster thanks for stimulating my thinking Ditto @RishiSunak for describing himself as an FD and @BorisJohnson as a CEO Four reasons for EASA decision (if it really was)
Dec 15, 2019 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
@DavidHenigUK @AllieRenison have quite rightly highlighted that Government is not thinking/working through trade offs in relation to future trade relationship with EU - what matters most Cakeism no longer available Similarly Govt needs to think through immigration, housing & infrastructure, NHS and social care priorities