What do you call it when a company spends five years telling people to work from wherever they'd like, then hands a large share of them a moving date. Uber calls it "establishing clearer principles for where roles and teams should sit." It's one version of a pattern running through this week's news: the promise and the number attached to it keep drifting apart, whether that promise is about jobs, flexibility, fairness, or reward.
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The clearest case is the newest one. Data centres in the UK are on track to create about a quarter of the jobs the tech sector said they would, according to new thinktank analysis, a gap wide enough that it's worth asking what else this week's numbers don't quite add up to.
