But, as the country enters a new phase in its coronavirus response and cases are rising at an alarming rate, the political back-end is entering a new field: the study of lounges, bedrooms and millions of British workers.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Rabe told the BBC this week that people in the economy need to get back to work.
This tone is more intense in most of the British media. “Ghost Town Britain is about to return to work and Boris Johnson’s path must move forward,” read the headline of a newspaper column by Caroline Fairburn, head of the Confederation of British Industry.
Shelley Esquith, health, safety and wellness policy officer at TUC, the congress of UK labor unions, describes the national debate on returning to work as a game of blame.
“There has been a concerted effort by some sections of the media that many people working from home don’t really work,” he told CNN Business. “And there’s a lack of understanding of how hard people work in lockdown.”
Phil Taylor, who is researching the homework experiences of an employment rights organization, added that “some of the orators employed in recent times are outrageous.” Government for many months. “
“Life is at stake here,” Taylor told CNN Business. “If people don’t want to go back to the fees, they shouldn’t be blamed for it all.”
‘He is irresponsible’
Despite weeks of efforts by government ministers, a glimpse of Britain’s difficulties in returning to the fee can be gleaned from a business response to cleaning detergents last week.
Widely prepared advertisement for cleaning agent datol All of the “little things we like” about office fees on London’s underground network went viral for its absurd list – such as “carrying a handbag,” “taking a lift” and “all responding casually.”
“Dettol, thank you for persuading me to work from home forever,” replied historian Alex von Tunzelman, incorporating the views of many historian online critics.
“If anything it just serves as a reminder to everyone why he wants to continue working from home,” Esquith added.
“Wherever employees are close to each other, the infection is more likely to occur,” Taylor said, adding that many cases of call centers across the country have reopened just to close amid the surge in infection.
He said Taylor’s research was “absolutely clear that people were recognizing serious problems with the working environment.” “The commercial density of existing office fee spaces is such that it is almost impossible to maintain an effective social distance.”
Mike Cherry, national president of the Federation of Small and Businesses, told CNN Business that homework has boosted local, residential high streets, while city centers are virtually deserted compared to last year. High street food and coffee chains have been particularly badly affected by the epidemic, after a foot on busy streets immediately came down and then failed to return to the level of lock-down east.
An example of the way Brits work shifts
The epidemic has also ushered in a new era of homework that many employees do not want to leave vacant – and that is becoming a major problem for the government.
“One of the things that happened as a result of this lockdown is that people have found places where they can work more easily and with fewer interruptions – and also the benefits of working from home,” said Paul Bernal, whose tweet was criticized by a Daily Did. The mail front page on this issue went viral last week.
“This is a belief that more people than I expected and the government expected,” he told CNN Business.
Bernal is now one of many workers who contradict the government’s message, and hopes for more flexibility arrangements in the future.
He fought against any suggestion that affects productivity. He said, “I made a lot of hell when I was locked up – maybe more than before.”
He added, “It seems very hypocritical to the government and the media that they want people to take risks not for themselves but for the benefit of others.” “The suggestion is that somehow we are selfish by choosing to work from home, and we must sacrifice ourselves for the better – but what is better here?
“Getting a good life-balance is really better.”
That spirit is sure to cause trouble for the officers as well as they try to bring people back to the cities and towns on a daily basis.
Those new ways of thinking about work are rarely discussed in Britain – but for many labor unions and workers, it was time.
And given the tensions between the two camps, it is likely that spending five days a week on office fees will again become the norm in the United Kingdom. “It’s time for a change in the way people act,” said Taylor of the Employment Rights Institute.
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