Brits have been taking advantage of flexible Work From Home arrangements to go to the pub, see family and finish their festive shopping - leaving offices, roads and railway stations eerily quiet in the week before Christmas. It comes as latest Cabinet Office data shows three-quarters of the Government's offices were less busy in the first week of December than two weeks earlier. He added: 'With schools finishing last Friday it is likely that more parents are working from home this week. Birmingham has also seen a decline in congestion, plummeting from 71 per cent last month to 67 per cent yesterday. It comes as civil servants in Whitehall are taking an 'early Christmas' this year, with more staff working from home.

Source: Daily Nation December 20, 2023 21:13 UTC