If you’ve worked for a big company, you’ll know that most managers (except you, if you’re a manager in a big company and my client) have the people-management skills of a newt. And it often gets worse higher up the corporate food chain. Bang-to-rights or not, the manner of our Minister for War’s sacking would land any other incompetent MD in front of several tribunals and a roasting in front of the Chairman. In this case, that’s Her Maj; so I think Mrs May has more to fear from the apparently well-connected Mr Gavin Williamson. Remember Geoffrey Howe (kids etc.)?
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.