The issue is going to be, when companies realise that they can get just as much productivity by off-shoring work from home jobs to India/China/Malaysia for a fraction of the cost.
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I went into the office to grab an extra monitor a few weeks ago and the center of Sydney was a ghost town. Many cafe's and fast food joints haven't bothered opening because the business isn't there. Some pubs opened and have closed again due to a lack of business.
If they could offshore, they would have already. Not sure Covid is a catalyst for offshoring; those operations that could be offshore have probably already moved.
Surely the same argument applies to masses of the workforce working from home?
I do a job that can't be done from home so can't comment personally. My friends who are are a bit more split than the opinion on here but here it seems that peoples' lives are much better, seemingly with no drop in quality or quantity of work done whatsoever.
But pre pandemic, this wasn't happening at this scale and there were no serious calls to essentially change how vast tracts of the workforce work.
I would argue my productivity has been higher these last few months, if only because I save the equivalent of a whole day's work from not commuting. But it isn't perfect and there are projects we are parking because we cannot do them remotely. We have also had to work pretty hard trying to maintain the social aspect of work and help with mental health. People are participating in stuff they would ordinarily not, like wellbeing sessions and mindful hours.
So, I think we cannot maintain this level of productivity long-term; we shall have to go back. I just don't think we will work in the office quite as much as before, now that we have seen how much we can do remotely. Hence, the need for offices will be much reduced eventually.
I think Offshoring certain operations is not quite as easy as having remote working. For one, there are gains in being proximate to hubs of companies up and down the value chain that support your operations. Similarly, being near innovative hubs is beneficial: there is a reason why a bunch of tech companies have sprung up near Cambridge, in the so-called Silicon Fen. Whilst the big companies can perhaps set up their own hubs, small and medium size companies (which are the majority) are dependent on others to form a hub.
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The best thing about this is that just over three years ago Robbie Gibb was the Head of Political Programming at the BBC. So in the same breath as saying that the BBC has a woke agenda, they are admitting that its most senior news and politics roles are filled by 'Top Tories'.
Which just goes to show that the right will never be satisfied. BBC journalists could literally be sinking the boats of the migrants they chase in the channel all whilst blaring Rule Brittania over a loudspeaker, and the Daily Mail would still criticise them.
Honestly the lot of them are just reactionary peasants with slowly dying brains.
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I cant even blame them. The voters gave them license.
Just as long as we get Brexit... I can't even be arsed finishing it. I'm done. Let's just leave the EU and move on to the next ten years of austerity, where the Tories pit everyone against each other except the elites.
So I see that Boris wants all MP's back in Parliament so as to set an example to encourage people back to work.
He needs to remember that he does not employ workers. Their companies do and they understand that there is no pressing reason for them to do that.
Yet more illogical idiotic irresponsible policies made on the hoof.
The only reason he wants his MP's back in the commons is because he wants their support as a result of Keir Starmer making him look like an idiot during PMQs.
He needs to remember that he does not employ workers. Their companies do and they understand that there is no pressing reason for them to do that.
Yet more illogical idiotic irresponsible policies made on the hoof.
The only reason he wants his MP's back in the commons is because he wants their support as a result of Keir Starmer making him look like an idiot during PMQs.
Yep, and don’t forget it’s our responsibility to save the sandwich shops!
Comedians react as BBC boss ‘threatens to axe left-wing comedy shows’ to create fair political representation
https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/01/bbc-...cal-representation-13206039/?ito=newsnow-feed
More proof the Tories have a stranglehold over them.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/01/bbc-...cal-representation-13206039/?ito=newsnow-feed
More proof the Tories have a stranglehold over them.
I can't wait for all the new hilarious right-wing shows that must be in the pipeline. Hitler's Half Hour? The Two Rommels? Laurel and Heydrich?
The BBC has become a really bad joke in itself.
The BBC has become a really bad joke in itself.
The Two Rommels 
Typical bully. Needs his cronies behind him cheering him on, even when he doesn't make sense.
Not much chance of that fat bitch dying from starvation is there? Compassion and empathy are alien concepts to these bastards.
That video really wound me up. How can you crack a smile when you've just been asked how you feel about a woman starving to death next to her baby. What an odious c.unt.
That is a good description. He knows that he is nothing like as bright intellectually as the very sharp Starmer. So he has given up trying to out think him.
Instead he will just turn to his mob and talk to them instead.
Typical bully tactics.
Boris is flapping again
He doesn't look well at all.
I’ve heard Kier ripped him a new one again, as per.
It’s incredible how often this current government has made a decision, then had to reverse it a short while later. Seems genuinely unprecedented? Latest u-turn is regarding the lockdown in Manchester but they seem to have been constantly making humiliating climb-downs. Often on really important issues (e.g. A Levels). Has any British government ever so obviously lacked the courage of its convictions?
I think the calculation is that the climb downs are generally to positions with public support - boris is a populist - hes trying to be a populist - i dont think he has many convictions beyond hard brexit (which is one policy they have showed no sign of backing down on so far)
I missed it if he listed them but Starmer kept referencing 12 u-turns during the pandemic and 8 policy climb downs in 8 months.
True. They’ll back down on every policy decision apart from the one that will do the most damage of all.
He did.
But today, Boris performance was a new low, even by his appalling standards.
He knows that Starmer has a fixed number of questions.
What he is now having to do is not only to not get anywhere near to an answer. But to launch into a pathetic attack on a subject nothing to do with the or any question.
Surely it is up to the speaker of the house to request that the PM actually answers the question, rather than Starmer having to waste another of his allocation trying to get an answer.
Yep just seen some of the answers now, what the hell was that answer to Blackford at the end?!
He just uses his answers to steer it wildly of course and hit Kier with abuse, you’re right the speaker should be there to make sure everything is relevant.
Bercow would've made him answer the questions. I miss that guy.
Quite right.
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I thought we were fed up of experts?
Well not if they're homophobic misogynist obviously. After all nearly all tories are experts at that!
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Utter cnut!
To top the guy off, he's also made comments about climate change probably doing some good.
Ian Huntley was a vile murderer, but at least he was a bloody good caretaker.
I think its at this point, as football fans, we need to chant repeatedly "you don't know what you're doing"!
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