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Covid won't kill the office

24 June 2020

12:51 AM

24 June 2020

12:51 AM

The rapidity and willingness with which workers have adopted and adapted to remote working has led some – including Rory Sutherland in this week’s Spectator – to hail a home-working revolution. But there are convincing reasons why the office won’t be another Covid casualty.

First, while it is not inconceivable that coronavirus could accelerate the pre-existing home working trend for office workers, it is bordering on Panglossian to think that we could broaden this out to most people in Britain.

Recent research from the Institute of Economic Affairs has revealed that headline statistics on full-time home workers are misleading.

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