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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate

Out of office? How working from home has divided Britain

Out of office … UK workers are less keen to return to commuting than their European counterparts.
Out of office … UK workers are less keen to return to commuting than their European counterparts. Illustration: David Biskup/The Guardian

Julie worked “crunching numbers” for the government from home for most of the pandemic, before recently returning to her desk in Whitehall two days a week. The civil servant, in her late 20s, says she was enjoying “the camaraderie of being back working with colleagues”. But then she found a message had been left on her desk while she was at a meeting with her bosses.

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