Work from home advice could continue beyond June 21
Government officials consider delaying return of workers to offices as trade-off for lifting other Covid restrictions
3 June 2021 • 9:30pm
Advice to work from home could continue beyond June 21 as the price of lifting other coronavirus restrictions, under plans being discussed in Whitehall.
Government sources on Thursday confirmed that officials were examining whether to retain the “work from home” guidance as a mitigating measure, in the event that Covid hospitalisations and deaths surge in coming weeks.
Boris Johnson has pencilled in June 21 for the final step in his roadmap out of legal restrictions, which would see all constraints on social contact lifted and the cap removed on the numbers allowed to attend large events.
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