Can we do this? Will we break the law? The HR director rolled his eyes and said Ohhhhh, let me double check! I said: “Make it happen, It is hugely necessary”. Why? Because less than four per cent of the early years sector are male.
The general election illustrated how neglected and distanced from opportunity and investment the Midlands and North felt compared to elsewhere in the country.
Six months in and work has changed immeasurably. We now do so much online and our connections with clients which were already strong have only got better. We have pivoted, reviewed, become smaller and leaner, remained business-focused, and ensured our sustainability and scalability (as much as we can) – all of which followed our own advice to others.
What happens when a crisis just becomes the way we live? It starts to describe the staffing shortage situation. It would seem after Covid thousands of people never returned to work. They simply vanished!
One of the few benefits of Covid-19 was that we learned that we could manage big meetings using technology and there was less reason for people to complain about not being able to attend due to timing, venue or cost.
The world is full of contradictions and here is a BIG one. I recently read in the Financial Times that the global management consultants, McKinsey & Company earned a whopping £560,000 for giving ‘vision’ to a new English pandemic body.