Business Diary; a Few Morsels From the Great and Not so Good

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BBC Scotland's news and current affairs boss Blair Jenkins used a festive email to remind his journalists how productive they had been this year, although it had more to do with input than output. Apparently Queen Margaret Drive staff managed to "produce" 21 weans last year. If the rest of the nation could just match his staff then maybe Scotland wouldn't have a declining population and the Beeb wouldn't have a dwindling audience, Jenkins must have thought.

THE owner of the IT outsourcing firm The Blue Group should be signed up immediately to advertise the merits of remote working. Ian Fraser was forced to run his Rosyth-based business from Australia for three months after his wife Kirsti gave birth 10-weeks' premature while they were on a short business trip to Sydney. Doctors said baby Christopher Ramsay, weighing just over three pounds, would have to wait at least another 10 weeks before flying home.

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Business Diary; a Few Morsels From the Great and Not so Good

Fraser took it all in his stride and oversaw operations via e- mail and teleconferencing, even attending board meetings through video conferen...

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