THE powers that be at Guy Robinson’s place of work insist that employees tell the office if they’re “working from home”. Human laziness being what it is – sorry, we meant to say “the employees being committed to maximising productivity in a forward-looking sense” – the welter of emails on Monday mornings got shortened to the three letters “WFH”. Then someone was stuck working at an airport and sent the message “WFA”.
Then, given the insistence by the virus that is language on mutating whenever possible, the changes poured in and escaped the limitations of the alphabet: “WFT”…
