Solon reckons government curbs on institutional investors may result in fewer homes getting built, ‘which is not good for the country’A business trip to London about 10 years ago gave Claire Solon a glimpse of a future that she believes will fail. At the time she was head of estates management at the ESB, which was planning to rebuild its Dublin headquarters from scratch. Hot-desking was a big thing in London, and Solon wanted to see how it worked in practice. “We did office tours visiting mostly tech companies and accountancy firms where nobody had a desk of their own,” she says. “Staff retention was a big issue because people felt disposable.

Source: The Times March 28, 2021 00:01 UTC