No Going Back To Work

[allenlondon]

Apparently, people who needn’t go back to work aren’t going back to work.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/10/no-rise-in-workers-in-uk-city-centres-despite-back-to-office-plea

Is this inevitable? So many office jobs are far from useful, involving moving bits of paper around, or making phone calls, that people just aren’t going to miss a few million office workers not turning up.

A bit like many hospital clinic consultations, just as effective done by telephone, people might be waking up to the tremendous waste of time that society indulges in.

[andres]

I don't know whether this has been discussed in any of the previous answers but just wondering about the home insurance. Will the employer still be liable for his employees ?

[allenlondon]

I haven’t got a list, but having just watched ‘Ambulance’, a documentary about the heroic efforts of the Merseyside paramedics, I’d say ten thousand people could be retrained as paramedics and make sure the sick and dying were treated far more quickly.

[New Judge]

//I don't know whether this has been discussed in any of the previous answers but just wondering about the home insurance. Will the employer still be liable for his employees ?//

Of course he will. I've mentioned this extensively in the past. Up to now people have been sent home with a laptop and told to get on with it. Many of them are working at home in most unsuitable conditions and very soon employers are going to have to shape up and meet their responsibilities.

[naomi24]

Allen, //I’d say ten thousand people could be retrained as paramedics and make sure the sick and dying were treated far more quickly.//

Commendable in theory - but in order to pay their salaries - and for the treatment the sick need - the country needs to generate wealth. Without Capitalism, how would you suggest we do that?

[Theland]

Too true.
Spending needs more than wish lists.

[allenlondon]

You were best suited to god-bothering, Theland. You got (and deserved) more sympathy in that persona.

This new-look Theland, joining the ranks of the anti-socialists, seems at odds with basic christian principles. If your boss (Jesus) was around, surely he’d have been driving the barrow boys from the City.

[naomi24]

Doubt it, Allen. Jesus never did a gainful day’s work in his life. He needed others to do that to support him. Nothing changes. The world never did work without money.

[bhg481]

Come on Naomi, be fair, he did a lot of public speaking and a few conjuring tricks.

[naomi24]

:o)

[allenlondon]

Ad hominem, even if the man is Jesus, or Mohammed, or the Hindu gods, or The Buddha.

The old Answerbank disease. Go for the man, not the philosophy.

[naomi24]

Not at all, Allen. Just stating a fact.

[allenlondon]

Or just simple disrespect. I know where my money goes.

[naomi24]

Haaaaaaa! And speaking of ad hominem attacks .....

[mushroom25]

// I haven’t got a list, but having just watched ‘Ambulance’, a documentary about the heroic efforts of the Merseyside paramedics, I’d say ten thousand people could be retrained as paramedics and make sure the sick and dying were treated far more quickly. //

for many of those whose jobs are declared "of no use", becoming a paramedic would probably be beyond their ability. today's entry requirements are incredibly academic in nature. on the practical level, even if the budget was available (which it isn't) it's a non starter.

https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/ambulance-service-team/roles-ambulance-service/paramedic/entry-requirements-and-training-paramedic

[allenlondon]

Back to your studies, naomi.

Commenting on your manners is not an ad hominem attack.

[bednobs]

you two should just get a room

[naomi24]

Allen, you've wished me ill with Covid, a couple of days ago you wanted to kick me, and now I'm ill mannered because I've told you the truth. I get it that you're incapable of conversing with educated women ... but I guess your problem doesn't end there.

[allenlondon]

Naomi, you are a liar.

[naomi24]

No, Allen, I am not.

[teacake44]

Past experience just tells me that after 239 posts, Naomi is just looking to have the last say no matter what, just again let her have it, it will make her day at the very least.