Half of London Companies plan for remote working 5 days a week

[AtW]

TGV?

Faster, cheaper, a chance to chat up a French lass - obviously not what I meant.

[AtW]

unless he was talking about the Paris Metro!

London Metro is much better - it's totally free.

[cojak]

Managers are itching to tell their staff to come back to the office.

It would be interesting to know the reason behind this article - maybe TfL managers?

[LondonManc]

Managers are itching to tell their staff to come back to the office.

It would be interesting to know the reason behind this article - maybe TfL managers?

I think you'll see a difference when the 40-somethings are nearly all double-vaxed by the end of July. Quite a few comments suggesting September in line with schools too.

[d000hg]

Managers are itching to tell their staff to come back to the office.

Indeed, they are missing out on the power to control mundane aspects of others' lives, and worried people will soon notice that they actually don't contribute much when everyone got on just fine WFH without micromanagement every 5 minutes.

[vetran]

Indeed, they are missing out on the power to control mundane aspects of others' lives, and worried people will soon notice that they actually don't contribute much when everyone got on just fine WFH without micromanagement every 5 minutes.

too true

[mattster]

Indeed, they are missing out on the power to control mundane aspects of others' lives, and worried people will soon notice that they actually don't contribute much when everyone got on just fine WFH without micromanagement every 5 minutes.

Exactly right. If anyone in our industry should be worried about their roles in a WFH world, it's the managers, not the grunts. Unfortunately they also make the rules.

[SueEllen]

I think you'll see a difference when the 40-somethings are nearly all double-vaxed by the end of July. Quite a few comments suggesting September in line with schools too.

That's if your company has an office for you to come back to....

Plenty of SMEs who were renting office premises got rid of them or down sized them, so all staff can't be back in the office to work.

[LondonManc]

That's if your company has an office for you to come back to....

Plenty of SMEs who were renting office premises got rid of them or down sized them, so all staff can't be back in the office to work.

Very true. We Work, etc. will have had to rethink their model/strategy because some of their offices cannot operate in a Covid-secure way.
Pure speculation but we could see defunct local retail business premises repurposed as small satellite offices for SMEs to be used as nominal bases for must-be-in staff, critical meetings, corporate HQ, etc., at a fraction of the cost of a larger inner city premise.

[GigiBronz]

Ladies, gentlemen and boomers. We have a new rhetoric.

Older workers planning to work from home permanently are selfishly risking the development of young people

Somehow agree that limited human interraction might reduce the motivation and development of cognitive processes.

but I thought nobody gives a flying f about younger generation. Not so long ago they were being blamed for spreading covid, front page facing news: IT IS THEM!

anyway, I am biting my tongue not to upset other people around here.