While the UK press had announced at the end of August that the Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson would be unveiling a ‘back to work’ plan, the government ended up denying it had any intention of encouraging employees to return to their deserted office buildings. This surprise U-turn may be because of the mixed reception the ‘back to work’ initiative has received at a time when the virus continues to circulate.
On 28 August, the conservative and normally very well informed newspaper the Telegraph broke the news that as British schoolchildren were getting ready to go back to school, Boris Johnson was going to use this momentum to encourage employees to return to their offices via a campaign set for early September. A government source said, “People need to understand that working from home is not the benign option it seems. We need workers to be alert to what decisions their bosses may take in the week
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