A cabinet minister has warned there is a “limit” to home working as the government prepares to launch a publicity campaign to get people back to the office amid warnings of “devastating consequences” for towns and cities. Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, said there was a “limit, just in human terms” to working remotely and suggested it was an issue of intergenerational fairness. “If you think about somebody who’s maybe at the younger end of the workforce, perhaps lives in an apartment or a shared flat maybe, is literally spending their days on Zoom from a corner of their bedroom, you can see why for a lot of people’s mental health it is important to be able to return to a safe workplace,” Mr Shapps

Source: The Times August 27, 2020 23:04 UTC