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Ministers face backlash over messaging campaign calling time on home working [View all]
There's a lot of stuff in the press shouting at people for working from home at present. And a big part of the reason for that is that the newspaper industry is one of those heavily affected by people working from home and therefore not buying a paper on the way to work. Ultimately the question of working from home or in an office not a matter for employers and employees, not for politicians.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/government-backlash-working-home-coronavirus-a4535756.html
Pressure is building on ministers to back down on plans to bombard the public with messaging next week to encourage employees back to work.
The Government is planning a newspaper and television assault to get people back into the office, with an unnamed source suggesting to the Telegraph that those opting to keep working from home could make themselves “vulnerable” to redundancy in any post-Covid business shake-ups.
Furthermore the announcement by coffee and sandwich chain Pret a Manger that it plans to get rid of 2,800 roles from its shops because of trade slumping by approximately 60 per cent year-on-year has further worried Downing Street that town and city centres are becoming ghost areas as commuters stay away.
However, devolution leaders, opposition MPs, trade unions and Britain's equality watchdog have hit out at the intention to target those still working from home following the coronavirus lockdown, and condemned the tone of the off-the-record briefing to the press.
The Government is planning a newspaper and television assault to get people back into the office, with an unnamed source suggesting to the Telegraph that those opting to keep working from home could make themselves “vulnerable” to redundancy in any post-Covid business shake-ups.
Furthermore the announcement by coffee and sandwich chain Pret a Manger that it plans to get rid of 2,800 roles from its shops because of trade slumping by approximately 60 per cent year-on-year has further worried Downing Street that town and city centres are becoming ghost areas as commuters stay away.
However, devolution leaders, opposition MPs, trade unions and Britain's equality watchdog have hit out at the intention to target those still working from home following the coronavirus lockdown, and condemned the tone of the off-the-record briefing to the press.
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