This was the headline on this morning’s BBC news. Perhaps it was the fact that the regulator, the FCA, is taking such relatively prompt action to investigate the trials and tribulations brought about by these Anglo-Spanish computer problems that grabbed the headline writers’ attention. The extent to which this is a first world problem was highlighted by the third item, tales of of children trapped in lava flows in Guatemala. A country in which, I suspect, an online banking failure would have very little effect. I hope we’re contributing a small proportion of the FCA’s £573m budget to help them.
“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’.