Monday, 31 August 2020

The Home Working Dream

 This pandemic has seen a radical shift in work across Britain.

Many more people that can are working from home.

The greens have long promoted this as a way to reduce commuting emissions and improve quality of life.

However, now that it is in full swing there is a snag.

It is hurting the service industry.

Pret A Manger have shed a significant amount of jobs and the city is deserted, as they lose the commuter footfall.

This may not seem a great tragedy to some, but it does pose the question: Can we make the structural shift without endangering a huge amount of service jobs?

Are we going to see a work from home world post lockdown and is it really progress?

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