[image courtesy of Lars Trebing]
The Met Office this morning warned that tonight the south of England could join our friends in the north by seeing several inches of snow fall – up to 40cm in some areas. In fact, there’s a good chance that by the time you read this you’ll be snowed in already.
If you’re off work, ‘snow days’, as they’ve become known, are great. Building snowmen, hurling snow balls and making snow angels. Yes, even if you’re fully grown (don’t pretend you don’t). For those having to work, however, it can be a nightmare. You feel restricted. Travel is laboured at best and a non-starter at worst. You can’t get to the office to access your computer or your files and national productivity seems to grind to a halt.
But a snow day is the perfect time for a Powwownow. Meetings can be re-arranged and you can still catch up with work colleagues even if your car won’t budge. Productivity can continue.
It also means you can follow the good advice from the fellows down at the TUC by staying at home in the warm, avoiding the risk of slipping over on the pavement and hurting yourself or getting in your car and going ice skating.
In fact, the only place you’ll need to go is here.
#1 by John Bottom at 8th January 2010
Good point. In fact, I wonder if snow days don’t sometimes make people more effective. You stay in the office, and you get those jobs done that you didn’t have time for otherwise because you were out travelling to meetings…