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Quite a few of my colleagues have taken positions in New York and Zurich, where things seem more secure, but I'm not sure I want to uproot my young family. As you'd imagine, I'm not averse to taking a few risks, but I don't want to create unnecessary upheaval for them.

A: I have a slightly shameful attitude to decision-making - and that's never to make an important one until it's clearly necessary. It's not a perfect system, of course, but I've seen so many examples of friends and acquaintances admirably determined to plan ahead. So they make some courageous and irrevocable decision - only to be confounded shortly afterwards by a totally unforeseen event.

In your case, the only reason for you to decide now to take your family abroad would be if they and you already wanted to make such a move, irrespective of the economic climate. And that's clearly not the case.

You've got a young family. You've got schools to think about. Your company has already conducted two rounds of redundancies and you weren't affected. I don't know what your appraisals say, but it would seem you're well regarded.

Do you really want to run the risk - before it's necessary - of uprooting your family and plonking them down thousands of miles away; and then gradually realising that the worst of the redundancy epidemic in Britain seems to be over and that some sort of corner might have been turned?

- Jeremy Bullmore is a former creative director and chairman of J Walter Thompson London. His book Another Bad Day at the Office? is published by Penguin at £6.99. Address your problem to Jeremy Bullmore at: editorial@managementtoday.com. Regrettably, no correspondence can be entered into.