Over on The Huffington Post, Microsoft’s Scott Dodds notes that the disruption caused by last week’s snow may have lost the UK half a billion pounds, with up to one in three UK workers unable to make it to the office. On top of that, recent research indicates that here in the UK we travel further to work and spend longer doing so than any of our European counterparts.

Why do we persist in a pattern of work that is so inefficient? The answer is largely cultural, argues Dodds.

The myth that has long been perpetuated says that not being at a workplace somehow equates to reduced productivity. It’s so widespread that it has led to absurdities like ‘presenteeism’, defined by Ruth Simpson in the British Journal of Management as the “need to demonstrate visible commitment” although others define it as showing up for work even when ill – an equally inane concept.

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