One of the advantages of working from home is that it kills the myth of presenteeism, which often leads to people filling up their time with non-productive busywork. I can get done in 6 hours at home… (View Post)

I'm afraid that, cynically, my experience of 30 years of working is that what I am paid bears no relationship to how hard I actually work. In the previous company I worked for, over 15 years, there w… (View Post)

Well, that was certainly the policy adopted by Kingston-upon-Thames LEA in the 70s and early 80s. No money for anything in the Grammar, not even decorating, (one inspection report by OFSTED's predece… (View Post)

Losing the right to strike needs to be balanced by an offer from the other side, such as pay rises guaranteed to rise in line with inflation. Otherwise it's just the same old story of the elite putti… (View Post)

Put much more succinctly than my reply! (View Post)