‘Zoom is fine, but it can’t match being back in the office’
by Joanna Partridge from on (#56PGY)
Property group British Land was one of the first to allow staff back into its London HQ - with lift-button prodders at the ready
Temperature checks at reception, spaced-out desks, contactless coffee dispensers and plastic lift-button prodders. Welcome back to work - in an anti-Covid-19 office. These features, which would have been deemed eccentric and invasive in January, are some of the measures being deployed for returning employees by one of the UK's biggest companies, property firm British Land.
And many more businesses will have to take heed if the UK is to reverse its position as one of the slowest European countries to get its feet back under the desk. Only a third (34%) of UK white-collar employees have gone back to work, while in continental Europe almost three-quarters of staff (68%) have done so, according to analysis from US bank Morgan Stanley.
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