What will be the new normal for offices?
Millions of workers are toiling at home because of the pandemic. Many of them may never go back into the office
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ON MAY 10TH Boris Johnson, the prime minister, is expected to outline the beginning of the end of lockdown. Non-essential shops will start to reopen and factories will gradually get back to work, while maintaining sensible distancing.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "The shape of things to come"
Britain May 9th 2020
- What will be the new normal for offices?
- How pubs, cinemas and shops will reopen
- Britain’s government says it is “following the science”. Which science?
- Why Britain is ignoring the Google-Apple protocol for its tracing app
- Lockdown is making the Tory party restive
- How covid-19 puts vulnerable children in greater danger
- How the pandemic revived the newspaper stunt
- The rise of isolationism in the Conservative Party
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