A visit from Openreach today – they were due to arrive next week. Looks like they are serious about giving me a fibre connection to the house. Not only that but they are giving me a service better than they promise.
Over the past few months I’ve had to use call centres more than usual and there is normally an apology about people working from home. But one thing I have noticed is that the person I get through to is much more human. I find the experience really positive. I feel much more inclined to buy more from salespeople than I did before.
We did a trial of a number of different alternative working arrangements when I worked in one big organisation. I compressed my week in to 3 very long days. After a couple of months my health had improved significantly.
I was interested to see the uniforms used in the presidential debate this week – suits.
There is a strange attitude in the business world about what appropriate dress codes are and how we all are much more efficient when we work 9 to 5 in an office setting.
The past few months have challenged all of this.
But this is much more than just a business choice. This is about exclusion. There are so many young people that would feel uncomfortable in the world of office suits but that could excel in business. The world of business suits is a foreign land, where people have traditions they don’t understand and speak a language that is foreign to them.