專欄露西

If you want adult behaviour, treat people like babies

Lloyds bank has found a new way of saving money. It has banned all staff from travelling in the third week of every month.

How pathetic, I thought when I first heard of this. Things evidently aren’t good at the half-nationalised bank if first the chief executive stays home for a couple of months because he’s exhausted and then it implements a hare-brained cost-cutting scheme that treats people like babies.

The idea is nonsensical: if a trip matters, it ought to be taken at the right time; and if it isn’t, it ought not to be taken at any time at all. Most ludicrous of all, the bank says the policy is part of its “Smart and Responsible” initiative and is in accordance with one of its core values: “We Act Wisely”.

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露西•凱拉韋

露西•凱拉韋(Lucy Kellaway)是英國《金融時報》的管理專欄作家。在過去十年的時間裏,她用幽默的語言調侃各種職場現象,併爲讀者出謀劃策。她的專欄每週一出版在英國《金融時報》。露西在2006年獲得英國出版業獎的「年度專欄作家」獎項。

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