The Undercover Boss revealed
It says something about the current level of confidence in the economy that when Channel Four put together the latest series of its show Undercover Boss, it could only find two companies willing to go through two weeks of filming. Thankfully the channel did manage to find someone with more than a passing interest in road transport to participate in the latest fad in business TV.
The show is a combination of Secret Millionaire (who said Pall-Ex's Hilary Devey at the back?) and Troubleshooter (the programme that made a star out of the late Sir John Harvey-Jones), and this is what Channel Four's PR guff says about it: "The top dogs of British business go undercover in their own companies to find out what's not working, fix it and reward employees who deserve recognition."
Top secret
But surely any good boss would be doing the same, especially in a recession and certainly without the TV cameras? Well, perhaps it is only the magic of television that can put the chief executive of a company into the workforce without anyone blowing the lid on their cover (letting you in on a secret, the filming crew would stop anyone who threatened to spill the beans and get them to sign a confidentiality agreement).
