Regnier still works from home one to two days a week, and has been even more lenient with Santander’s 19,000 UK staff, with office-based workers only expected to be onsite two days a week.

“I don’t think it’s absolutely vital that people spend all five days a week in the office as they did pre-Covid,” Regnier says from his sixth-floor office near Euston station in London. “And, actually, had it not been for Covid, I wouldn’t have accepted this job, because I wouldn’t have wanted to be away from home five days a week in London. That wouldn’t have been good for the family or for me.”

This has helped Regnier, who is paid £3.3m to run the UK’s fifth-largest bank, gain a reputation as an “approachable” boss, according to a former colleague

Nobody should be paid that much but he's an outlier for the industry in allowing hybrid work at least.

Horrific and sickening, to see an aid organization treated like this, especially knowing the situation in Gaza. Depraved actions like these will not be forgotten by decent people of the world.

Yes NSO, keep on claiming you're innocent until proven guilty of targeting journalists... because every single person you want to dox/harass is automatically guilty of being a "terrorist" and none are innocent citizens. The burden of proof goes on the accused unless they're you, apparently.

I'm curious if it's not just because they can count on judge/jury bias in their favour but because of warped legal expectations like this being more than fantasy that they want the trials in Israel so badly.

Yes, because the requirement for extensive infrastructure running across large stretches of land makes market entry nearly impossible for new competitors (while also being disruptive for customers if it does become possible). Hence all the issues we have with lack of competition and its effects.

If by the nature of the product or service there is no ease of switching providers and if the thing is a necessity to get by in the modern world, it shouldn't be (solely) private.

I'm surprised and disappointed the percentage isn't higher than that, but these polls tend to have skewed sample groups anyway.

I found the last one a lot more authentic-sounding and a decent compliment, honestly. But I don't know, are people really expecting to say/hear flowery speeches along the lines of a bad pick up line?

Wait, is she thinking that's how you welcome a witch or is that how she believes witches welcome people? I couldn't find an attached article and this is bugging me now...

It's unequal in that they're already more likely to prosecute minorities. Somehow I doubt prosecution of more white people would have changed this judge's mind.

Even when ethnic cleansing isn't actively going on, it's not a democratic state if any group of people native to the land are banned from voting, can't travel freely, and have a separate justice system that applies only to them. Iran wouldn't have been in the state it's in if the US hadn't staged a coup there because they didn't like the leftist leader people democratically elected.

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

(Also, DS9 was the best.)

So I'm a "patient gamer." Neat, I didn't know there was a name for it.

If so, it seems like another argument in favour of letting most people work from home.