UK economy: Millions of domestic workers never return to work after epidemic

As the country enters a new phase in response to the corona virus and cases are moving at an alarming rate, politics is moving back and forth to a new arena: the restrooms, bedrooms, and studies of millions of British workers.

But for now, though Increasing cases The public’s desire for flexible and efficient work arrangements, and the government desperately wants employees back in office.

Quotes from ministers and business leaders Economic impact on urban centers As the driving force of their progress – but their rhetoric annoys many employees, indicating that they are not working hard enough from home.

“The economy needs to get people back to work,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Robb told the BBC this week.

“People across our country are returning to a lot of offices, that’s right,” Johnson told his cabinet on Sept. 1. Without giving evidence For argument.

The tone is sharper in most British media. Read the headline in a newspaper column by Caroline Fairbane, head of the Confederation of British Industry, “Ghost Town Britain has joined the workforce and Boris Johnson must pave the way.”

“They’re back at work … where’s the rest of the UK?” The day the schools reopened in September was the front page headline of the same paper. A few days ago, the Telegraph quoted an unnamed minister as saying: Telling people: “‘Fear of returning to work or losing a job’.”

Shelley Asquith, health, safety and welfare policy officer at TUC, the UK’s Congress of Trade Unions, describes the national debate about returning to work as a game of blame.

“There has been a comprehensive effort by some media outlets to find out that a lot of people who work from home are not really working,” she told CNN Business. “I have no idea how hard people work at Lockdon.”

‘This is incredibly irresponsible’

Despite weeks of hard work from government ministers, the complexities of returning to the UK office can be summed up in a commercial response to a cleaning detergent last week.

Widely advertised for cleaning agent Dettol London’s underground network has gone viral with all the misguided lists of “little things we love” in the office, such as “carry a handbag,” “take a lift,” and “accidental reply-everything.”

“Thank you for convincing me to work from home forever,” commented historian Alex von Thunselman, which contains the thoughts of many online commentators.

“If it serves as a reminder of wanting to work from home for something,” Asquith added.

Dettol’s parent company Reckitt Benckiser (RBGLY) CNN declined to comment to the business about its remote operating policies.

The motivation to return to the workplace is as follows In response to the increase in Covid-19 cases, Johnson announced new restrictions on community gatherings, Raise concerns about office security.

“Where workers are very close to each other, these infections are more likely to occur,” Taylor said, adding that multiple call centers across the country are reopening, only to close due to an increase in infection.

Taylor’s research shows that people are recognizing serious problems in the work environment. “The labor density of existing office spaces makes it impossible to maintain an effective social distance.”

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Concerns about the economy are central – Mike Cherry, national chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, told CNN Business that while homework increases the number of local and residential high streets, urban centers remain more desolate than they were last year. Pandemic affected the high street food and coffee chain after they immediately abandoned pedestrian traffic and failed to return to pre-locked down levels.

The UK economy recorded its Growth for the third consecutive month in July, But only about half of the output output lost due to the corona virus is recovered.

A paradigm shift in the way the British work

Pandemic has unleashed a new era of homework that many workers do not want to give up – and this is becoming a major issue for the government.

One-third of British workers under the age of 60 already plan to work from home when things return to normal. A study by UCL in London, At Cardiff University Research Nine out of 10 workers who logged in from home during the outbreak found that they wanted to continue.

“One of the things that has happened as a result of this lockdown is that people have found places that are easier to work with and attract less attention – and there are benefits to working from home,” said Paul Burnell.

“More people have identified than I expected and more than the government expected,” he told CNN Business.

Bernal is one of countless workers opposed to government messaging, and hopes for more flexible arrangements in the future.

He opposed any suggestion that it would affect productivity. “I created a lot of hell while I was locked up – maybe more than ever,” he said.

“People think that the government and the media are hypocrites and they want people to take risks for the benefit of others, not for their own gain,” he added. “The suggestion that by choosing to work from home we are somehow selfish and sacrificing ourselves for more good things – but what is the big advantage here?

“Achieving a good work-life balance is actually much better.”

When officials try to bring people back to cities and towns on a daily basis, that feeling is sure to cause problems for officials.

They are not alone; Stanford University says 42% of Pandemic American workers are repatriated Research. But the response to homework in other European countries has adopted a very different tone than in the United Kingdom.

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In April, Germany’s finance minister told Bildt that legislation should be passed that would give employees the right to work at any time. Reported. The government is still in France Advising “Priority should be given to working from home whenever possible.” A bill drafted in Spain would give employees the “right to a workable schedule” and force employers to bear the cost of working from home. Local reports.

New ways of thinking about work have not been discussed in Britain – but for many trade unions and workers it is time for them.

When conflicts erupt between the two camps, spending five days a week in the office does not seem to be the norm again in the United Kingdom. “It’s time to change the way people work,” said Taylor, of the Institute for Employment Rights.

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