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This is Business Live from BBC News with Ben Thompson and Sally Bundock. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
France says "bonjour" to the big banks. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
As Brexit creeps closer, it's been revealed that British | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
banks are actively preparing to shift across the Channel. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Live from London, that's our top story on Thursday 8th December. | :00:17. | :00:36. | |
Could Brexit mean a new financial dawn for Paris? | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
A top official there tells the BBC that big banks are already | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Also in the programme, From Russia With Love - | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
the Kremlin has sold an $11.3bn stake in Russia's largest | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
oil company Rosneft to Glencore and Qatar. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
And we'll be getting the inside track on a firm | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
named one of the top 50 disrupters in the world. | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
In Europe, we are going up and up. How long will the rally last? We | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
will get an expert view. And we'll be getting | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
the inside track on a firm named one of the top 50 disrupters | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
in the world. It lets customers buy online | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
with just one click. We ask the boss how it works | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
and whether it's safe. And as a new study lists the top ten | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
places to work, we want to know - what's the one thing you'd change | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
about your workplace? We start with Brexit - | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
and the growing concerns within Britain's financial industry | :01:34. | :01:57. | |
about the coming departure In Paris, a top official has told | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
the BBC that major banks are in advanced stages of planning | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
to shift some operations from London Financial firms contribute some 12% | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
percent of the UK economy. Currently, they can | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
operate across the EU a right they may lose when Britain | :02:16. | :02:16. | |
leaves the EU. In the City of London, some of the | :02:17. | :02:33. | |
world's biggest financial giants are pondering how to react to an | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
uncertain future. In Paris, they are in full swing. I am told | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
international banks are being wooed with special deals on income tax, | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
corporation tax, schooling. They corporation tax, schooling. They | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
have even been told contracts will be written in English. You have had | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
lots of interest from international institutions. What state are you at | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
now with negotiations? In some cases, we are still at the level of | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
informal consultants be with lawyers and so on. But in other cases, | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
especially regarding international banks, it is no more informal. There | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
are already undertaking reels due diligence and we receive a lot of | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
practical questions. So we now know that companies have | :03:24. | :03:39. | |
taken big steps towards moving. And if they do come to Paris, there will | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
probably come here, where 70 new office buildings are being planned | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
and where an influx from Britain is seen as key to attracting the rest | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
of the world. We are also aiming at world companies that are today | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
established in London, or thinking about establishing themselves | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
somewhere in Europe. For instance, we have a lot of contact with | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Chinese companies who are looking for a base in Europe and are very | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
interested by France in Paris for many reasons, and they are very | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
interested by the Paris business Institute. Do you think these are | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
companies that would otherwise have gone to London? Probably. But now | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
that is off the table? Yes. I have spoken to bankers and lobbyists and | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
politicians across Europe, and it is clear that there isn't one city, not | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
even Paris, that thinks it can take on everything that the City of | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
London does. But there are lots, like Luxembourg, Amsterdam, | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Frankfurt, Dublin and yes, the French capital, that think they can | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
take a big chunk of that business, and if you put all those chunks | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
together, you end up with a very big problem for one of Britain's biggest | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
and most lucrative industries. We will stay across that story about | :04:56. | :05:12. | |
the banks that are actively preparing to move overseas. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
The world of big oil deals doesn't come much bigger than this. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
The giant commodities trader, Glencore, and the sovereign wealth | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
fund of Qatar are buying almost a fifth of Russia's state-owned oil | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
The big bucks for the deal are coming from Qatar, | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
with Glencore putting up around $320m. | :05:29. | :05:46. | |
Our reporter from the BBC Russian Service joins us from Moscow | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
This is a big-money deal? Yes. The Kremlin say this is another victory. | :05:52. | :06:03. | |
They say they have managed to sell Rosneft despite the sanctions and | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
that investors are still interested in Russia. However, if you analyse | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
it carefully, you can see the opposite. You can see that Russia's | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
economy is struggling and the Kremlin urgently needs to take steps | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
to heal holes in its budget. This was another example of that. It | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
shows how the Russian economy is struggling and how some of the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Russian firms are struggling to repay their debts and how volatile | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
the Russian economy is and how dependent it is on oil, which is | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
still unstable and is not growing. So put this in perspective for us. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Russia has of course been grappling with western sanctions for some | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
time. How key is this deal for Rosneft and the Russian economy? It | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
was very important for Rosneft and Moscow on the one hand to get some | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
profit and somehow get money to heal the holes in the country's budget. | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
But on the other hand, it was important to remain in control of | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
this strategic asset, and they managed to achieve both of these | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
goals. However, the Russian rouble is still heavily dependent on oil | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
and the Russian economy is still struggling to overcome the outcomes | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
of Western sanctions to deal with the volatility in the oil market. As | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
you said, a welcome boost as far as the coffers are concerned in Moscow, | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
and President Putin has talked about this, highlighting that it is the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
biggest sale in the energy sector so far this year? Yes, Russia's state | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
news has shown this in their headlines. They are showing that | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
this is a great success of the Russian economy and of the Russian | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
president. On the other hand, we are waiting for markets to react and we | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
are seeing that Russian oil companies had a meeting with Mr | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Putin earlier and they had to agree on cuts which may hit the Russian | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
economy later this year. Big Russian companies will have to repay their | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
debts, and this is also adding to uncertainty in the market. All that | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
is part of our Russian service. Thank you for your time. -- Olga. | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
Let's take you to do Business Live page. But the UK retailer is | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
dominating the stories, Sports Direct. It has reported a this | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
morning, so staff morale has been hit, they say. -- it has reported a | :08:53. | :09:02. | |
loss. It was hit by accusations of Victorian conditions in its | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
warehouses. It has come in for a lot of criticism, not least by MPs, who | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
have been calling for an improvement in working standards. There is | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
plenty of detail, because they have issued their figures this morning. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
We have had a fierce fightback from the boss, lashing out at critics. He | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
says his business is all ethnically motivated. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Financial markets in Europe will be looking to Frankfurt today | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
where the European Central Bank holds its meeting. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Analysts are expecting the massive monetary stimulus | :09:36. | :09:36. | |
The bank is currently buying up 80 billion euros of bonds a month | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
to push down borrowing costs for governments and firms as well as | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Japan's economy grew at 1.3% in the three months | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
That's down sharply on the original estimate of 2.2%. | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
It's a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
the world's third biggest economy through an asset purchase | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
scheme which he hopes will push inflation up. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Tata Steel has announced plans to secure jobs and production | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
at its UK steelworks including Port Talbot in Wales. | :10:14. | :10:30. | |
The one billion pound - that's about $1.25 billion - | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
commitment looks set to end eight months of uncertainty for employees | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
However, changes to workers' pensions are still to be agreed, | :10:39. | :10:50. | |
Let's see how things are going with the markets in Europe. Where are | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
heading into the European Central Bank meeting. There is an | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
expectation that the ECB will step in with further stimulus because of | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
the uncertainty about the outlook for Italy. For now, markets in | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Europe are following the lead from Asia and Wall Street the night | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
before. And Samira Hussain has the details | :11:11. | :11:10. | |
about what's to watch out All eyes will be on US markets | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
Thursday. It has been a record-breaking streak as of late, | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
repeatedly closing at record highs since the presidential election. The | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
financial sector has been a big winner on markets, up some 15% since | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
November. President-elect Donald Trump's plans to reduce corporate | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
tax and regulations, along with the likelihood of the Federal Reserve | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
raising interest rates next week, have all been big boosts for the | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
banking sector. Also happening Thursday, a department store will be | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
reporting earnings. Investors will want to know how the struggling | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
retailer is getting ready for the holiday shopping season. They will | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
also be looking for any updates on its financial position, business | :11:56. | :12:07. | |
restructuring or sale plans. Back here, Justin Urquhart-Stewart, | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
co-founder and director of Seven Investment Management, is with us. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
Let's start with the US markets, doing particularly well as a result | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
of Trump. As Sally said, the Trump pump. Let's enjoy the party. No one | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
has said anything yet! We haven't got a clue what the policies are | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
like, but we have an idea, so we enjoy it. It is like Brexit, we have | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
a phoney war there too. Everything carries on until someone explains | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
the policies. At that stage, does the guild suddenly come off the | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
lovely polish? If we add the result of the US election to the | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
traditional December rally, it will that have an impact as well? There | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
is that warm feeling to it, but behind it, people are looking at | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
what he's actually saying. People are saying he will pump a lot of | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
money into the economy, so things will benefit from that. But the | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
other side is what will actually happen about trade, if he is | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
actually going to be more isolationist and break up trade | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
deals, that is very bad for global trade. So at the moment, they are | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
looking on the good side. What would burst the bubble? It would burst the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
bubble if he said, our policies are going to be directly anti-trade when | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
it comes to Nafta. If it is cancelled, which is unlikely, and if | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
he suddenly turns on Europe. It is more likely that the global carry on | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
for a while, and then you will start seeing the policies coming through | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
and at that stage, people will say maybe it is not quite as good, | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
because things like infrastructure don't happen immediately. It is a | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
nice policy, but it takes a while to come through and at that stage | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
reality will come back. But enjoyed it for the moment. Did European | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
Central Bank were due to wrap up their stimulus programme in March. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
But they may carry on because of concerns about the banking system | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
not just in Italy, but also the concerns over Deutsche Bank in | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Germany, and making sure the confidence is still there. Europe is | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
an economy overall, the general picture is not that bad. But they | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
need to make sure there was enough assurance behind the banking system. | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Everything is woefully negative at the moment. But if it has more | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
support, that could turn around. Justin will be back to talk to us, | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
amongst other things, about what you would change about your office. Lots | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
of you are getting in touch. Some things, we can't say out loud. Chris | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
says, a better owner, a company that doesn't insist on you working eight | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
hours without a break. David says, I would move my office to another | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
country. Keep your comments coming in. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
All very negative. We want Trump pump style reaction. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
We meet the firm named one of the top 50 disrupter | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
It allows customers to buy online with just one click. | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
We ask the boss how it works and whether it's safe. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
You're with Business Live from BBC News | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
Sports Direct has reported a big drop in half-year | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
profits after being hit by the fall in the pound. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
It caps off a tough year for retailer, which has included | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
paliamentary and newspaper investigations into how it treats | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
its staff and a vote of no confidence from investors. | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
Justin Bones is in our Salford Newsroom. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Just tell us a bit more about what the figures show about Sports | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
Direct. Yes, it really does seem like hardly a week goes by without | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
us talking about Sports Direct. It has been warning for some time that | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
profits could be hit this year. If you look at the underlying pre-tax | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
profit, that is down 57%. If you prefer reported pre-tax profit, that | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
is 25%, down by about ?140 million. That is despite sales actually going | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
up in shops to about 1.6 billion. The company is blaming a number of | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
things, including the decrease in the value of the pound. Some of the | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
fall in the value of the assets as well. Also, it is investing more in | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
people. The reason for that is a lot of the controversy that we have been | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
hearing about. You may remember it got in trouble for underpaid people, | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
not paying the minimum wage, because it was taking them so long to get | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
through stringent security checks at the end of the day. They have also | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
done away with the six strikes and you're out rule, for one people were | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
not following rules in the warehouse, and produced a more | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
standard grievance system. Because of all that trouble, the majority | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
shareholder, Mike Ashley, reappointed himself as the company | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
's chief executive just a couple of months ago. One of his first | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
acquisitions? Well, a new private jet for the company, that will sit | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
alongside Sports Direct's private helicopter. What is the company | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
saying in response to this? Keith Halliwell, the company chairman, has | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
gone on a bit of a rant in the report. A bit of a diatribe. I will | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
really what he said. I have no doubt that extreme political, union and | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
media campaign against the company has impacted negatively on the | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
morale of people. It says it has been disproportionate, inaccurate | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
and misleading. Thank you very much indeed. Much more on the website. | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
France's financial regulator has told BBC News that major banks | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
are in the advanced stages of planning to move some operations | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
from London to Paris as they weigh up the implications of Brexit. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Benoit de Juvegny said the French capital was seeking to attract | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
businesses concerned about being able to operate | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
A quick look at how markets are faring. | :18:13. | :18:25. | |
Still higher, how long will that last? For now, enjoy the rally. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
With Christmas fast approaching, many of you may be avoiding | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
the last-minute dash for presents by shopping online. | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
Yes, the convenience of e-commerce has revolutionised the way | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
we shop and next year, the annual total of all online | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
purchases is set to top 2 trillion dollars for the very first time. | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
But some people say the process can be made even simpler. | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
Klarna is a Swedish payments provider that allows you to complete | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
This means that you no longer need to go through the long-winded | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
process of entering your personal information and bank details. | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the company's boss. | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
He sat down with our colleague Joe Lynam and began telling him how | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
We wanted to make payments really simplistic and realised | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
the things people don't like is exposing a credit card, | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
We said, why wouldn't we just use the data that you already | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
provided to the merchants, just allow you to buy | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
Does the consumer take the risk before the payment is confirmed, | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
We take the full risk, both from a credit risk perspective | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
So, if something happens, it is up to us. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
This is really where a lot of the technology has been built | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
around how do we recognise fraud, how do we protect both the consumer | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
We have been doing this for 11 years and I think we are processing | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
So, it has worked really, really well, but it has taken | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
How do you assess risk of the consumer given the fact that | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
all you have as their name and e-mail address usually? | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
Basically what we do is we use what we call a risk-based approach. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
Now it has become more and more used by other financial | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
It was very revolutionary when we started it. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
It basically means when we look at a specific transaction, | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
a lot of data might be what time of the day is it, what type | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
We are one of the few companies in the world that actually | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
have a security level for the items that you are buying. | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
So we look at this data and make an assessment. | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
If it is a transaction with low risk, it might be just enough, | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
If there is someone buying four iPhones in the middle of the night, | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
you might want to ask a couple of more questions | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
Does the consumer lose out, does the bank lose out, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
You don't have to sign up before, you can just go | :20:54. | :21:09. | |
If consumers appreciate our experience, it might be | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
that they start using it more and more often, instead | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
of using their card, and eventually it replaces their need for the card. | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
So, obviously, if you are a credit card issuer, if your bank | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
is supplying this kind of payment products, this is the person that | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
could potentially lose out if it is successful. | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
When you started this company, you are just out of university, | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
in your early 20s, with no financial experience or education, | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
and yet your company is now worth $2.2 billion. | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Why should we trust a guy with no financial experience ten years ago? | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
I have actually been doing this now for 12 years. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
If you bring somebody in and say, yes, that person has been working 12 | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
years in the financial industry, you'd say that is quite all right | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
To me, being one of the largest shareholders | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Basically, I am the one that is going to suffer | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
I think that is actually the difference, with a lot | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
of the banks, what we saw in the financial crisis, | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
because there was no skin in the game for the executives, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
when things hit the fan, basically, they didn't mind that much. | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
I have invested sweat, blood and tears, the last 11 years on it, | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
and make sure that compliance is number one. | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Because that is the license to operate we have been given. | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
Speaking about that idea of simple fine payment processes. It is too | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
simple already, you spend too much when it is simple. You need the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
barriers! I can see you clicking away. You need the barriers so you | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
put it off and don't spend. Justin is waiting to chat some more about | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
some of the other stories. This one in the Washington Post is | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
interesting. Company bosses turn to Jamie Diamond, the boss of JPMorgan, | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
lead to outreach to the Trump administration. He was the one that | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
was vaguely friendly with Mr Trump. All of the others are busily erasing | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
their previous speeches and comments about him. Trying to get into the | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
golden elevator in Trump Tower? The question is, isn't Jamie Diamond | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
part of the establishment, part of the haves? Is he in the swamp that | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
he is trying to drain? Is Mr Trump part of the swamp? In terms of | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
trading and business arrangements, Mr Diamond is part of it as well. He | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
is a firm supporter of things like immigration controls and some of | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
firms. -- some of the tax reforms. Is he a supporter when it comes to | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
trade agreements? He has been quite combative on the trade issue. The | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
problem would be, if you move to a period of more trade barriers, it is | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
bad for global trade. There is this view that globalisation is bad, the | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
world will move against it, but we need to be careful. The world has | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
got wealthier as a result. There is a balance between liberalising, | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
making sure you have money coming in, and putting up more barriers. At | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
the moment, the good side is winning, everybody is ignoring the | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
other side. The best places to work in the UK, I am sure that seven | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
investment management, you would say it is the best? Does everybody have | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
to wear braces? Of course, it is the uniform. No, not really. The only | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
time they did was my 60th birthday. We have seen the pictures on | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Twitter. We asked what he would like to see. Let's talk about air | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
conditioning. I want the air conditioner switched off in the | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
winter and better job security. I don't know which order that should | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
come in. Madelyn says bringing dogs to work. If my cat could stand it, I | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
would bring him in. Let's talk about Expedia, number one? They have cars | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
and computer games in the office, I can tell why they like it. It is all | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
about issues, you know, how is my career, is there good training? Are | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
they flexible over time off work and things like that? It is basically | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
careers and training, that is what people want to see. I was surprised | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
there was not a spark of originality. We went through a phase | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
of people having games rooms and things like that. That seems to have | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
changed. It seems quite serious. Important stuff like training, as | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
opposed to table tennis and computer games? But if the BBC wants to put | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
them on, that is fine! He won't make it on the air, he'll be playing a | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
game! Once again, incredibly mild out | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
there. The sort of temperatures we have been getting overnight are | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
closer to what we have in the summer. 14 | :26:18. | :26:18. |