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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

Home working could make up to a fifth of London office space redundant

An empty office in central London
An empty office in central London. Office-based staff are reluctant to spend the entire week in their workplace post-Covid. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

As much as a fifth of office space in London and south-east England may not be required in the post-pandemic world of work as employees spend less time at their desks, according to a property survey.

The new workplace flexibility being offered to staff by their employers could leave office blocks empty across Britain’s towns and cities, the real estate consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) found in its latest office market report, as companies cut back on the amount of space they rent.

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