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MORE THAN HALF of workers believe that the traditional 9-to-5 job will be a thing of the past in just five years time, a new survey has revealed.
Some even believe the majority of workers will work from home, not tied to a physical location and potentially not even using a computer.
A survey of 100 business executives on current and future workplace trends by Accenture also highlights that a high number of executives are unhappy with their job, with 58 per cent saying they were ‘dissatisfied’
A gender divide was revealed within this figure, with the main reason for the majority (33 per cent) of women surveyed was ‘no opportunity for growth within their position’.
However, for 39 per cent of men it was feeling underpaid.
Both genders had feelings of being ‘burnt out’.
“It’s probably not surprising that professionals are still feeling disenfranchised with their jobs given the strain the economy has put on the workplace over the last five years,” Ryan Shanks, Head of Talent and Organisation at Accenture said.
He added that workforces need to adapt now to “achieve a proper balance in a digital world”.
One-in-four think we will work in ‘virtual’ offices, while 37 per cent think we will have dumped our desktop PCs in favour of our phones or tablets.
Almost 29 per cent of executives think that location will not play a huge role in the recruitment of employees, with skill-sets, language ability, and computer literacy instead playing bigger roles.
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There’s something unsettling about watching the tea turn a milky colour while the teabag is still floating in the cup.
“Still JANUARY”???? Surely Sinead you can’t have been asleep for months, it’s now AUGUST!
Remove tea bag. One sugar, stir. Add milk, stir. Bobs your uncle.
Now continue on with your lives!!
NO. Add milk before sugar, we are not savages.
My OCD gauge is starting to twitch ….
No way jim, sugar before milk otherwise it’s not hot enough to dissolve the sugar and you end up with a mess at the end of the cup.
You’re missing out on the warm lactose combining with the sugar to give a lovely caramelised smoothness. More stirring is needed of course but the good things are worth the effort. Maybe I should relax with a cuppa now.
prep tae and then add bainne of course. how hot the tae is obviously determined by amount of bainne. . bainne before tae can lead to super cooling affect which in turn could lead to melt down which could lead to all out ructions !!
Tae
a tea bag and milk have no business being in the one cup at the same time.
Tea bag in the water, let it sit for three mins, stir a few times.. Don’t squeeze the $hite out of it, tea becomes bitter. Then add a drop of milk nice and strong
I like my tea like my men, black, strong and just a little bit sweet.
Tea so black, it axed me a question.
They say breast is best?
have we gone back in time or forward in time to January! that is a shocking lazy copy and paste job!
Milk in Tea? Go way ya big girls blouse, Tea should not have milk in it!
warning: Heracy Alert! I don’t take milk in my tea!
putting sugar in tea is just wrong, and always pour the tea in first and then milk.
The perfect way to make tea…
Swirl the cup with hot water
Fill it 80% with 95 degree water
Add a tea bag for 1 min and 50secs
Remove
Add approx 5 tea spoons of room temperature fresh milk.
Toss it down the sink and pour yourself a cup of life affirming, caffeinated coffee like a normal person, sit back, drink and ponder the concept that at this moment in time everything is as close to perfect as humanly possible.
I don’t put milk in tea at all.
Black tea is nice actually! Have tried it once or twice
You put lemon into it?
No I haven’t actually! Do u?
Have put orange juice into tea and coffee lol.
From a pot, milk first.
From individual mugs, milk last.
It’s tea making, not rocket science!
It is! I know a guy who had to study quantum mechanics and Einsteins theory of relatively before he knew how to make a perfect cupa!
the longer you leave the teabag the stronger the tea Will get. adding milk Will stop the infusion of the teabag, that way by adding milk after you make it as weak or strong as you Want
mrs doyle this is a very milky cup of tea
I’m sorry but the only article I’m interested in reading about tea is that they have discovered a way to give it in an IV….. And also Jamaica ginger cake…….
No option for don’t drink tea?
Don’t drink tea? Tell us of this new planet you’re from
Coffeland lol.
depends how lazy I am. sometimes I drink the tea with the tea bag still in the cup. sometimes I add the milk then the tea bag then the hot water. If I was a perfectionist I would put the tea bag in the cup then add hot water, stir and squeeze out the tea bag then add the milk. It really depends on my humour. ..
this madness frightens me
Is that you mrs Doyle?
We need to get you a teamaster.It really takes the misery out of making tea.
You know how hard it is to find a tea spoon in my house! Hence everything gets thrown in together. . sometimes though ido burn my fingers when I dip the teabag in and out of the cup pinched in between my thumb and index finger.
@sonny black: Perhaps I like the misery.
Lily I don’t know what blaspheme or Devel worship you practice. But I’m calling the Garda. To ask, can they contact me the Ministry of good tea making and have you expelled from the country.
At what barometric pressure do you boil your water at, lol.
But what about green tea then lol.
I don’t take milk in tea, in my opinion it ruins it!
Why would you take out the tae bag, eh?…
This may sound really pernickety of me, but the answer to this actually depends on the colour of mug that I use. If I’ve used a black mug, I always put the milk in first. If it’s a white mug, then it’s the tea bag out first, then the drop of bainne.
Milk then tea bag. How else are you to know if it’s too strong or not. :)
Prior to the discovery of quality china clay in Britain only the upper classes could afford quality China .Mugs or cups made from lesser materials was liable to crack when hot tea was introduced.Thats why whether you add the milk first or later is still seen as an indicator of class origin
its more the fact that adding milk first stops the tea from staining the inside of the cup. i have my dustin the turkey cup 10 years now from carrolls on o connell st.not sure if it is made of porcelain
None of these options are correct.
The goal of making tea is to make an emulsion, not what most people make – a mixture.
The correct way to make a up of tea is to add the milk, then the bag and then the hot water.
This results in an emulsion.
The wrong way is to add the milk last.
This will result in a mixture.
You can taste the difference.
Guy Martin explains it here:
https://youtu.be/a0845Vgy99E?t=1m3s
It’s all to do with the molecular interaction between the hot water and the milk.
Got it?
What about adding the milk before the water or the tea, Guy Martin style. It’s the emulsion way of making tea, try it and you won’t ever go back.
Add the milk before the hot water and the tea bag.
That’s just crazy talk
Fascinating poll
Put simply….you don’t.
I leave the tea bag in cos the tea gets stronger the nearer you get to the bottom
Needs another option, mild first, then drop tea bag in, 30 sec add water. Remove tea bag.
ALL WRONG. Brown sauce would batter milk any day
half tea half milk, after removing tea bag
I leave my tea bag in until I finish the cup
Milk increases the viscosity and would prevent effective convection through the teabag. I’m not quite sure about the effect on dissolution of sugar crystals though.
I don’t put milk in tea or coffee
With coffee you can heat the milk with the coffee in it and put it in the microwave, can you make tea with hot milk instead of water, just a thought, lol.
Milk in coffee?
What fresh hell is this?
No water just milk used to make coffee…
Only way is to do it, add sugar and tea bag, then add the milk, mix briefly to dissolve sugar, finally the boiling water. Makes for a smoother brew!
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