The dastardly Mr Deedles

Credit Suisse has taken a majority stake in Sapience Analytics, a firm whose technology allows bosses to track the work patterns of employees by monitoring their computers and mobile phones. Banks have gone mad for this Orwellian technology. HSBC and Barclays recently installed systems which monitor how long its employees spend at their desks. Will Lloyds will be next? I expect boss Antonio Horta-Osorio’s long-suffering better half wouldn’t mind keeping tabs of her wayward hubby’s whereabouts. Whiny Expedia boss Dara Khosrowshahi, 48, informs staff that quitting the firm to take the top job at Uber ‘has been one of the toughest decisions of my life,’ adding: ‘I have to tell you I am scared.’ Poor lamb! Perhaps the £155m in Expedia stock options Uber reportedly have to compensate him for will put a few hairs on his chest. Ex-Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn, now a key adviser to Donald Trump, wears two bohemian-looking bracelets around his wrists. One is made of brown leather with a ‘peace’ tag attached, the other a black beaded bangle adorned with a silver skull. Small wonder Republican diehards are said to eyeball Democrat-supporting Cohn with hawk-like suspicion. Amiable ex-John Lewis boss Andy Street, will appear ‘in conversation’ at Birmingham’s Hotel du Vin next month. Guests paying the £40 entry fee, which includes ‘arrival drink, 2 course lunch with wine, tea & coffee,’ will hear Street discuss his first five months as mayor of the West Midlands, what he feels are the essential characteristics of a great city, then partake in a Q&A session. Who pitches up at these peculiar snoozeathons, I wonder?