Civil servants face a crackdown on working from home as ministers plan the end of the 'Tuesday to Thursday' office culture in Whitehall that is blamed for plummeting productivity since the pandemic.
A key factor driving the world to lockdown in 2020 was remote-working technology like Zoom that, for the first time, made extended periods of isolation economically viable, argues Prof Jay Bhattacharya.
Mask wearing, social distancing and working from home could be introduced by ministers to 'ease pressures on the NHS', as some experts call for Britons to start adopting Covid-era measures.
The Editors of the BMJ and the Health Service Journal have said the "pandemic is far from over" and an immediate return to work from home, masks, gathering limits and free testing is needed to save the "dying" NHS.
The next few days of high temperatures “may be a moment to work from home” a senior Government minister has said as unions grabbed the opportunity to demand the right to stop working if temperatures hit, er, 25°C.
A massive 75% of Londoners say they will never return to the office full time after working from home during the lockdowns, a major new study has found.
During the pandemic, GPs adopted a new system designed to cut the number of patients they would see. It's been devastating for the health of patients. Yet there is no sign that this 'emergency' measure is going anywhere.
More than 3,000 diabetics in England may have died due to a lack of health checks during the first year of Covid, a major NHS study warns.
If you pay people for two years to stay home, and fund it by printing money, there is bound to be inflation. But the same people who called for longer lockdowns are the same ones complaining loudest about the crisis.
MPs and members of the public have demanded that civil servants stop blaming working from home and the Covid pandemic for poor service.
