Staff To Continue Working From Home As Much As Possible Until Late Into The Easing Of Lockdown
by Liz Seyi Digital marketing manager
In late February, the UK government set out its
four-step “roadmap” for easing its
most recent lockdown restrictions. In the process, it revealed that guidance to
staff to work from home where possible would not be altered until 21 June
at the earliest.
A week prior to that date, a review will be published to inform
any update the government makes to its advice on working from home. Until then,
the guidance for normally office-based workers is still to continue largely
working from home where feasible.
Any change in guidance for such staff therefore looks set to
coincide with the lifting of all legal restrictions on contact with others, and
large closed venues such as nightclubs being permitted to open their doors once
more.
What does the government’s roadmap document state?
The government’s document released alongside the announcement of
the “roadmap” – COVID-19 Response – Spring 2021 –
states: “Social distancing is difficult and damaging for businesses and, as a
result, it is important to return to as near to normal as quickly as possible.
“Ahead of Step 4, as more is understood about the impact of
vaccines on transmission and a far greater proportion of the population has
been vaccinated, the government will complete a review of social distancing
measures and other long-term measures that have been put in place to limit
transmission.”
Disagreement as to whether a ‘new normal’ looms
Presuming the advice on home working is finally revised towards
the end of June, many workers will have spent a significant proportion of the
previous 15 months away from the office. This has raised questions about the
likely extent to which these personnel will return full-time to the office as
previous limits are gradually lifted.
Various City and international firms, for instance, have already
indicated that they won’t need as much office space as they did before the
coronavirus crisis, due to the likelihood of people needing to come into the
office less often.
Indeed, it seems probable that many employees in the long term
will devote three or four of their working days each week to the office, and
the rest to working from home.
However, one high-profile sceptic on suggestions that the
pandemic could help bring profound and lasting change in this area, is
seemingly the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
Mr Johnson commented in a Downing Street press conference: “The
better remote communication gets and the more people can see each other and
talk on mobile devices, as a paradox the more actually they want to see each
other face to face.”
“That, I’m sure will come back. I think that London and our
great cities will be filled full of buzz and life and excitement again.”
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