Civil servants could spend as little as two days a week in their offices in Whitehall under plans to make flexible working the 'new normal'. Government departments have been told to come up with their own approaches to getting staff back into offices. One model under consideration would see officials split their time '30/70' with 30 per cent of the week in the office and 70 per cent working from home. It comes despite Rishi Sunak warning that being physically present in an office can help young people boost their careers and amid lingering fears over the fates of town and city centres if workers do not return.