“Roads busy again after Boris tells Brits to go back to work”

May 15, 2020 | In the news

How many a sad rock star has come out of rehab a supposedly-changed person, only to slip back into tabloid headlines within weeks. Seems only yesterday (well, last week, actually) that we were speculating about the way things might change post-Covid and lockdown. Cleaner air in our cities, biking to work, no need for a third runway at Heathrow or HS2. But already I can hear the familiar drone of traffic on the A40, the M25’s heaving and the Westway’s gridlocked. Plus ça change.

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.