Home, alone

Next time you are working from home, remember one thing above all others - the Government is doing absolutely sod all to help you.

With fuel prices ridiculously high, business competitiveness at a premium and a looming 'soft' recession, surely the flexibility and other benefits of working from home should be supported by the powers that be?

Not a bit of it. Instead, it taxes home broadband use as a personal benefit. Sure, it's impossible to show what percentage of home broadband is for personal versus business use if your employer pays for it. But the Government should be supporting home working, not dissuading it.

Rainier PR has just been billed by HMRC for back tax owing on employees' use of home broadband, over a period of several years. It's not a huge amount, but a slap in the face for a company that has won awards for its progressive approach to home working.

Wise up Gordo. Brits hate commuting and the media reckons they don't like you either. At least you have the power to change one of those factors.