LONDON: Britain's government is urging people to return to their offices and workplaces to help the economy recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
LONDON: Britain's government is urging people to return to their offices and workplaces to help the economy recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Friday .
Last month Johnson encouraged people working from home to get back to their workplaces to help the economy recover from its 20 per cent contraction in the April-June period, the largest fall among big developed economies.READ: Britain will act quickly on quarantine if needed, says PM Boris Johnson's spokesman
The Confederation of British Industry's director-general, Carolyn Fairbairn, said on Thursday that some city centres resembled ghost towns, and backed calls for people to return to offices.But many other business leaders and economists think the move is premature, and that it would be counterproductive to resist much of the shift towards working from home.
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