Is working from home the new normal?

'Working from home' is seeing a move to the regions

Businessman writing in diary while discussing during video conference. Multiracial male and female colleagues attending online meeting. They are planning business strategy. Source: Getty / Morsa Images

For millions of office workers around the world, one positive thing to come from the Covid pandemic has been spending less time in the office. Even after lockdowns ended, many firms continued to allow people to spend some days working from home. But will it last? It's a question people around the world are asking themselves -- but research in Britain may offer some hints for elsewhere too, with people moving out of the big urban centres to smaller towns and cities


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