Boris Johnson: Best known for being absent demands workers are present in offices
The front page of the Daily Telegraph (28th August) leads with a story, with the backing of Boris Johnson, that if workers don’t return to offices they run a risk of being ‘restructured’ out of their jobs.
Boris Johnson’s apparent conversion to Presenteeism is a surprise to say the least for someone who is best known for being absent.
In the crucial weeks before March (2020) Boris Johnson did not attend any of the five virus meetings held by Cobra, the emergency committee, in January and February and spent 12 days out of the public eye while on a ‘working’ holiday at (Chevening) in Kent.
Sunday Times 19th April
James Griffin, then Professor of Classical Literature at Balliol…was tolerant of Boris’s absences and late or non-existent work
Sonia Purnell, Just Boris
Boris’s persistent absences meant that mistakes were made that a more meticulous editor might have avoided
Sonia Purnell on Johnson’s period as Editor of the Spectator
‘not for the first time..the cry went up: Where is Boris’.
Sonia Purnell on attempts to contact Johnson, Mayor of London, after the start of rioting in London on 6/7th August 2011
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