Working from home

Thursday the new Friday as UK returns to office for ‘core’ midweek days
City centres are gradually getting busier, but it is likely some degree of remote working is here to stay
Joanna Partridge
24, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

Partygate: pictures emerge showing Boris Johnson drinking at No 10 leaving do during lockdown – as it happened
Latest updates: ITV obtains photographs of Boris Johnson drinking at a Downing Street event that appears to be a party
Nicola Slawson (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)
23, May, 2022 @10:48 PM

Hybrid working grew in Great Britain even as Covid rules eased, data shows
More than four in five workers want to continue flexible model despite government push for return to office
Joanna Partridge and Phillip Inman
23, May, 2022 @4:29 PM

How grasshopper stridulation can become the sound of silence as time goes by | Brief letters
Letters: Listening to insects | Working from home | Stanley Johnson’s French citizenship | Testing children | Rooney v Vardy
Letters
22, May, 2022 @4:31 PM

Working from home isn’t the problem – our bone idle prime minister is | Letters
Letters: Antony J Shepherd suspects that Tory donors are getting worried about the value of their property portfolios. Prof Stephen Wood’s research findings are at odds with the prime minister’s experience
Letters
20, May, 2022 @4:56 PM

Push for civil servants to return to office backfires as DfE runs out of desks
Department for Education ordered workers to spend 80% of their time in the office leading to ‘chaotic’ conditions
Richard Adams, Education editor
20, May, 2022 @12:08 PM

Has Jacob Rees-Mogg done his homework on civil servants working from home? | Letter
Letter: A recent advert for civil service jobs states that they will be home working – should Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson be told, asks Liz Asser
Letters
19, May, 2022 @4:44 PM

At ease, Martin Lewis – a queue of Tory MPs is here to solve the cost of living crisis | Marina Hyde
Had you thought of being paid more, suggests one minister. Who dares claim the government has no bright ideas, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Marina Hyde
17, May, 2022 @1:16 PM

Civil service cuts are driven by zealotry, not common sense | Letters
Letters: Civil servants are busy holding this country together and are tired of constant attacks from ministers, writes one manager. Plus letters from Dr Richard Carter, Sam White and Mark Lewinski
Letters
16, May, 2022 @4:49 PM

Remote working is making the UK a more equal place – however much Jacob Rees-Mogg may sneer | Gaby Hinsliff
Technology is helping people resist the gravitational pull of big cities. Surely this is a key part of ‘levelling up’ the country, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Gaby Hinsliff
15, May, 2022 @12:50 PM

Let them eat cheese… working from home is here to stay
Boris Johnson can criticise working from home all he likes – the evidence is that greater flexibility can equal higher productivity
Julia Hobsbawm
15, May, 2022 @9:00 AM

Nigel Hugill: the man building houses for the work-from-home revolution
The head of Urban&Civic transformed east London for the Olympics. Now he is aiming to create homes in huge numbers beyond the capital
Joanna Partridge
14, May, 2022 @3:00 PM
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