20cm of snow and productivity is destroyed

This week I’ve been forced to work at home for four days as some poor weather hitting the UK (or ‘The Beast from the East’ as it has been dubbed by the media) has meant that commuter train schedules have been decimated.

The weather’s not been that terrible, with just 20cm of snow where I live and temperatures of -2 to -4 degrees centigrade, but the UK and its population are simply not set up for handling this kind of weather.

But it’s not just me affected, as the majority of the office had working from home days, to the point where…