Mixed messaging from the Government on its work from home guidelines has left many businesses confused, with some Tory MPs warning that companies which rely on office workers will be at risk if this continues.
Designers in Bucharest have implemented close to 150 'Covid-free' measures in a new hands-free, virus-scanning office which they hope to see introduced around the world.
Apple has told its global corporate workforce they will not be allowed to return to the office until January 2022 at the earliest. The return has been pushed back partly due to fears over the Delta variant.
Fewer than one in five workers in U.K. cities have returned to the office, new figures show. The Government is said to be disappointed by this news but it hasn't exactly led by example.
The finality of the July 19th "terminus date" is being put to test as SAGE scientists are telling the Government to reintroduce some restrictions, including mandatory face masks, to keep the figures "under control".
Working from home could become the norm post-lockdown, but research shows that home working has increased levels of loneliness and mental distress over the past year – even for those who do not live alone.
Asda is the latest business giant to tell its office workers they can work where they like, amid suggestions that "hybrid working", where staff work from home some of the time, could become the norm post-lockdown.
The Government has confirmed that it is considering making working from home the "default" position – another shift from normality beckoned by lockdown – by giving employees the right to request it.
An increasing number of companies are telling their staff to work from home at least some of the time, confirming previous reports that, for many, "hybrid working" could become "the norm" post lockdown.
A Lockdown Sceptics reader writes to tell us about the depressing new "normal" in his workplace. Colleagues were sent home halfway through the day if they hadn't had a test, even if they'd recently recovered from Covid.
